Reporter RWIS Chamberlain Wireless Portable 4-Channel Intercom System (Pair)
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Reporter RWIS Chamberlain Wireless Portable 4-Channel Intercom System (Pair)
Customer Review: Good Intercom, Poor Room Monitor
Summary: 3 Stars
Primary reason for purchase was to monitor the room in which a patient was recovering at home i.e. to hear sounds and verbal requests from patient without their having to operate anything; secondary purpose was to communicate back to patient from a remote room. System worked poorly in monitoring mode (hard to hear what patient was saying or requesting) and well in intercom mode. A cheap "baby monitor" was much clearer and more senitive in monitoring the patient room. Reporter RWIS Chamberlain Wireless Portable 4-Channel Intercom System (Pair)Customer Review: Good product
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this product after returning a Westinghouse unit that did not even work out of the box. From my experince with radios in general, I doubt the 1 year battery claims
Pros:
Excellent sound quality and ease of use
Versaitility for adding other units
Security features so neighbors cannot hear
Appears to be rugged and durable
Compact
Cons:
Directions are poor - it took some experimenting to get the units to talk with each other and we had to figure out to change channels you had to momentarily press the talk butto then the channel button.
Batteries were hard to put in and case actually pushed into case and I had to pull it back out but nothing was damaged.
The inlet for an adapter is 12VDC but I don't see any notations on polarity so I am scared to put in an adapter - may have to see if they sell one or can tell me.
Customer Review: Good value
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not familiar with all the technicalities but I found the simple plug-n-play setup great as well as the ability to use battery power (which enables optimum location setting - and reduction of wires showing). I moved from a single level apartment to a multi-story home and this reduces the need to yell to be heard by the other family member your trying to communicate with. I got an extra 3rd unit (one on each floor) which integrates perfectly with the other 2. I have this one month. I highly recommend. We get great value from this item.Customer Review: Great -- if you are in the same room
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased a pair of these to communicate between our house and my mother-in-law's house which sits behind ours. Her house is no more than 75 feet from our back window, so I figured there would be no problem. WRONG. Only by standing at our back window and placing her unit in her front room could we even remotely begin to communicate -- and this was spotty at best. Forget using it through walls and other barriers! I had to set it to all 4 channels scanning in order to pick up a clear signal, the rest of it cuts in and out.
I then moved it to my garage, much closer to the rest of the house. Even now it's iffy at best. If I still had the packaging I'd return it -- now I can only warn others not to purchase this. Great sometimes, but way too touchy to rely on it.
Customer Review: Great Intercom
Summary: 4 Stars
This intercom is great! We have one in the basement and one on our 3rd level and we have no problems at all. You do have to wait for a beep to clear before you can talk, but even my 2 1/2 yr old has figured out how to work it. We are even considering buying a couple more so that we have one on each level of the house and in another bedroom.