My baby monitor keeps losing signal at night and it's driving me crazy—how can I fix this?

Hey Adrian! I know how maddening that is :) Night dropouts are usually interference or a power saving feature cutting the link. Try moving both the camera and the parent unit a few feet away from your Wi‑Fi router and any cordless phone base or smart hub. If your router lets you pick a channel, try 1, 6, or 11 and reboot it. Turn off VOX or eco mode overnight so the radio stays awake and keep both units on wall power & and re‑pair the monitor to refresh the connection. A small placement tweak can help too, like avoiding mirrors or big metal shelves between rooms.

If you decide to swap, I have had stable results with HelloBa :) It uses a dedicated connection that does not rely on your home Wi‑Fi, and it has a 1000 ft range and a 30 hour battery, which helps keep the link solid through the night. The tradeoff is no phone app, but that is exactly why it tends to be more consistent when Wi‑Fi gets crowded.

Night dropouts usually stem from interference or a slight power sag when night vision kicks in. Fix it by setting the router to a fixed 20 MHz channel like 1 or 11, spacing the units from routers and chargers & using a shorter thicker cable with the original adapter on wall power, and avoiding metal or glass between them.

Oh man, I feel your pain and we went through the exact same thing with our monitor when our kid was a newborn and and it was the worst, kept me up all night worrying. Turns out, for us, it was mostly about electronic interference from stuff in the house. We have a microwave in the kitchen that's kinda close to the nursery, and every time someone used it or even if the fridge kicked on, the signal would glitch out. So we started by unplugging unnecessary gadgets at night, like extra chargers or that old baby swing we weren't using, and that helped a ton. Also, elevating the camera unit higher up, like on a shelf instead of the dresser, made a difference because the signal could travel better without furniture blocking it.

Another thing, check if your monitor has a sensitivity setting or something, ours did and turning it up kept the connection more stable. And yeah. Don't forget to update the firmware if it's one of those models that allows it, sometimes that's the magic fix. Hang in there, you'll get it sorted.

If yours is an app based monitor on home Wi‑Fi make the network a little more boring at night :) Lock 2.4 GHz to 20 MHz on channel 1, 6, or 11. Use non DFS 5 GHz channels like 36 to 48. Turn off band steering and auto channel hops until morning. Also check that your router is not scheduled to reboot overnight and that any mesh nodes are not in the same room as the parent unit. Boring is good.

If it is a non Wi‑Fi handheld type and give it distance from the router and any cordless phone base and keep eco features off while you sleep, and try a re‑pair after a full power cycle of both units. Small changes go a long way here.

We fought this for weeks and it turned out to be a perfect storm of placement and power. Our parent unit sat beside the Wi‑Fi router on the nightstand and it would drop every time the screen went dark. moved it across the room and plugged it into a different outlet and it stopped and no idea why and but I suspect the phone charger brick was noisy. I also turned off eco or VOX modes so the radio stayed awake and re‑paired the units after a factory reset. After that it stayed linked through the night even with doors closed and the AC cycling.

If your nursery has a big mirror or a metal bookshelf try getting the camera a bit higher and angle it so the path to the hallway is clear. I know it sounds silly but that small tweak changed the signal bars instantly in our place. Hang in there. It is fixable.

Had a similar issue last year.. :) Super frustrating. Tried everything & then realized it was the neighbor's Wi-Fi messing with ours since we're in apartments. Switched our router to a less crowded channel and boom and problem gone.

If that's not it, maybe test the monitor in a different room during the day to see if distance is really the culprit or if it's something else like battery drain. Works great for troubleshooting. Anyway, hope that points you in the right direction, good luck!