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Cheap baby monitor with Android and a Tenvis IP Cam

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[ Update, 2015]:   After a while, I got sick of the overhead of a DIY solution.  A friend gave me a  Dropcam (now Nest Cam) , and I haven't gone back.  The optics and nightvision on the Nest are way  better than on the Tenvis, and it just works. I'm still completely sold on the baby cam thing.  The Dropcam was marvelous for us, and being able to wander around the neighborhood and not have to worry about the range limitations of our audio monitor was great. [ Previous article: ] I wasn't sure about this whole baby camera thing.  I mean - my parents got by with an audio monitor, and their  parents got by with sharp ears.  So for the first 13 months of our kid's life, we too made do with an audio-only baby monitor (the Philips AVENT DECT  is awesome and cheaper on amazon than the basic model AVENT we've been using).  But we found ourselves asking pretty often things like "is she awake and just being quiet?" (i.e., we didn't want to interrupt her sle