A baby monitor that is already in your bag
A hotel room, a holiday home, a weekend at friends. Moonside needs two phones and a charger, nothing more to pack, and it works wherever both phones have a network connection.
Why it suits travelling
Nothing extra to pack
The old phone you brought as a backup is the Baby phone. Your own phone is the Parent phone.
Hotel Wi-Fi or mobile data
The two phones do not need to be on the same network. The Baby phone can use the hotel Wi-Fi while your phone uses mobile data.
An alarm if the link drops
Unfamiliar networks drop out. If the Parent phone hears nothing from the Baby phone for about 30 seconds, it sounds an alarm, then reconnects by itself.
Familiar sounds in a strange room
White noise, ocean waves or a music box play on the Baby phone, and so can a message in your own voice.
Pair before you leave
Pairing happens in the same room, once. After that the pairing is kept, so you can set up in a hotel room in a minute.
Pay once, not per trip
Free for 3 days after pairing, then one purchase on the Parent phone. The Baby phone is always free.
Before the first night away
Pair at home and try a night
Pair the two phones at home and run a full night with the Baby phone in the nursery. The first 3 days are free for exactly this. A monitor you have not tested is one more unknown in a strange room.
Check the data plan
A whole night of live audio is in the order of 170 MB with the normal filter and about 460 MB with Hear Everything, measured on our relay. On a hotel Wi-Fi that is nothing; on a metered mobile plan abroad it is worth knowing.
Bring the charger for the Baby phone
Monitoring all night drains a battery. Moonside warns you when the Baby phone's battery runs low, but a plugged-in phone never gets there.
Allow Moonside to run in the background
On Android, let the app out of battery optimisation when it asks. On iPhone, allow notifications so the alarm reaches you.
Test the alarm once
Switch the Baby phone to flight mode for a minute: the Parent phone should alarm within about half a minute and reconnect when you switch it back.
Where parents use it
- The hotel room, while you eat on the terrace below with the Parent phone on the table.
- The holiday home, with the baby asleep upstairs and the rest of the family in the garden.
- Visiting family or friends, where the travel cot is in a room at the other end of the house.
- The campsite, where the Baby phone on mobile data turns the tent into a nursery.
Moonside works at any distance as long as both phones have a connection, but it is a baby monitor, not a babysitter. Stay within reach, as you would with any monitor. Moonside is not a medical device and does not replace adult supervision.
Abroad
Moonside has no idea which country it is in, and does not care. The two phones find each other through a small service we run, connect directly when the networks allow it, and use our relay when they do not. Nothing has to be configured for a different country, and the audio stays encrypted end to end on every route.
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