The Motorola PIP1710 Connect is a capable, largely subscription-free baby monitor with impressive range and a Wi-Fi kill switch on both the camera and the parent unit. Video quality is good for the average range, but at £230, it’s not quite the best performer that you can buy.

• Full HD camera with 4x zoom gives flexible room coverage
• Great mounting options with versatile claw grip
• No subscription needed for core monitoring features

• Touchscreen parent unit can be a bit fiddly when adjusting camera position
• Cloud storage for recorded footage is a paid add-on
• No on screen clock

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• Full room coverage HD camera with 4x zoom, 360° pan and 94.5° tilt

• Sound options 20 sounds included, from lullabies and white noise to stories

• Decent battery life Up to 14 hours of juice for the parent unit

Working out which baby monitor to buy is a big decision; you’re essentially trusting a brand to not only keep tabs on your little one, you’re also relying on them to keep them out of harm’s way. It’s why there’s such a debate online for first-time parents about whether or not to opt for a monitor with Wi-Fi capabilities or not.

And if you are seriously considering one with Wi-Fi capabilities, you’ve probably come across the Motorola Nursery PIP1710 Connect, a full HD baby monitor that offers reliable coverage from the five-inch touchscreen or from a connected smart device.

I had the chance to go hands-on with the camera to put it through its paces to find out whether or not it can stake a claim as one of the best baby monitors you can buy. Here’s what I found.

Design and features

• Touchscreen parent unit with 20 sounds
• No clock on the parent unit

Inside the box you’ll find a camera, parent unit, two plugs with their associated cables, and two types of mounts: a wall mount and the universal star grip. There’s nothing out of the ordinary here – the camera looks like a pretty standard baby monitor with grips offering you different mounting options.

The universal star grip here is pretty handy. You can use it to place the camera on a shelf or unit, as well as mount it directly to a crib, with the threaded connection keeping the camera nice and steady. This is what I opted for: first testing the camera while placed on top of my changing unit, before moving it cribside.

As for setup, it’s a fairly quick process. Turn on the camera and the base unit, download the Motorola Bebe app, sign up for an account, and then hit add device. Here you’ll need to hold the pairing button on the camera, sync it up to Wi-Fi using your phone and network password. Once that’s done, the app will generate a QR code on your phone, which you then show to the camera to sync the two together.

The whole process took me less than three minutes and knowing that pairing requires a physical connection to the camera leaves me feeling pretty reassured from a security perspective, but I’ll talk about that in more detail later.

First though, let’s talk about the camera. With full HD (via the app), a 4x zoom, 360° pan and 94.5° tilt, the PIP1710 gives you serious room coverage with decent clarity. I’ll talk about how the camera performed in my tests later, but I was impressed with the pan and tilt functions, especially given how quiet the operation was, even at night.

Like most other baby monitors, the parent unit is a 5-inch HD (720p) display. Except in the PIP1710’s case, this one is a touchscreen that looks like an older smartphone and has three physical buttons: two for the volume and one for the power. There’s a sound indicator on the front panel and a large kickstand on the back to keep it upright at all times. There’s even a torch on the back, which can be turned on via the unit’s menu. I really didn’t think I’d use this, but it turned out to be really useful when I was rooting around in the darkness of the nursery.

The unit also comes packed with 20 sounds, which range from lullabies, nursery tales, and white noise. I was really pleased to hear that the stories were read aloud by a human, not a robot, which makes it feel much more natural, although my preference is always to do bedtime stories myself. These sounds can be set up via automations too, so lullabies or stories can be played at certain times of the day.

Via the menu, you also have options to toggle alarms, toggle the timer for the screen, alerts for audio and movement, and privacy mode, which turns the Wi-Fi feed off.

There are just two things that let the parent unit down: the touchscreen navigation can be a bit laggy, especially when operating the camera, and there’s no clock display. These have both been sources of frustration for me, and the delays make the parent unit feel like old technology, and the lack of a clock is just a poor design choice that forces you to check your phone.

There’s one more thing that the PIP1710 Connect ships with that’s unique: BeyondCry. Powered by Zoundream, BeyondCry is a cry detection and translation feature, which is meant to help you understand what your baby’s cries actually mean. The feature is meant to be able to differentiate between hungry, sleepy, uncomfortable, irritated, and burp cries – a draw which might lure first-time parents in.

However, the feature is locked behind a paywall and isn’t baked directly into the camera, which for the price, is a real shame. You can try this out for 30 days, but after that you’ll need to pay monthly to use it.

This isn’t something I tried, but the cynic in me says every baby is different and you get to know yours over time. Paying for something like this feels like a gimmick and should be included in the camera’s price or not at all.

Video and audio quality

• Best detail at close range
• Good night vision
• Clear two-way talk

The Motorola PIP1710 Connect has good video and audio quality. With full HD quality, a 360° view, and decent zoom capabilities, the PIP1710 certainly makes a strong case for being one of the best baby monitors .

The parent unit displays enough detail on its 1280x720p 5-inch IPS display for you to keep an eye on your baby, but if you want more detail, you’re better off checking the app, which can display both SD and HD resolution. I always recommend streaming at the highest definition possible, but it’s nice to have the option to switch it, especially if using data while out and about.

During my tests, I found the camera worked best at closer ranges. In the test photos below, you can easily pick up the detail in the patterned baby grow and the blanket, but when moved further away, that detail disappears somewhat. With that in mind, I wouldn’t recommend having the PIP too far away from your intended watch position because even with the 4x zoom, I found the pixelation too difficult to pick out key details in the baby’s face.

At night, the camera performs well and there’s a good level of brightness in comparison to some of the other cameras I tested. It’s not as good as the eufy E21, but there’s enough detail without blowing the image or faces out and I didn’t feel like I needed to tweak the video settings to adapt to my environment either.

What I did find, though, is that the sensor was quite sensitive to small light shifts, affecting the exposure when neighbours pulled into their driveways. Fortunately I don’t live on a busy street, but if you do and you’re seriously considering this camera, bear this in mind (and maybe get some proper blackout blinds).

As for the audio performance, using the parent unit to communicate to the camera is clear and audible with a half-second delay. If you want to communicate with the camera via the app, this delay is much more noticeable due to the fact that the app sets up an encrypted channel first. From a security standpoint, this is excellent, but it does mean you’ll have to wait a couple of seconds before you can start speaking to your child – and another second or so before it’s transmitted to the camera itself.

There’s not much of a delay from the opposite side; noises from the camera to the parent unit are transmitted within a second and a little bit longer on the app. But this delay is consistent with other cameras at this range and not enough to warrant any concern.

App and software

• Easy to use and uncluttered
• Picture-in-picture included
• Clip playback needs cloud storage

The PIP1710 Connect comes with app connectivity via Motorola Bebe. It’s relatively easy to set up and use and has a variety of features that’ll keep you informed and in the loop about your baby’s activities when you’re out and about. You can also use it simultaneously with the parent unit.

You can screenshot and record videos direct to the gallery (but not to the cloud – you have to pay monthly for that), use two-way talk, set alerts for temperature, sound, and motion detection and check notifications via the dedicated feed. I also really like that you can use picture-in-picture via the app – something that is often locked behind paywalls on cheaper models.

Where Motorola lets itself down is on the notification front. You can set up notifications for sound and motion alerts, but when you go to view them you can’t actually watch back the recorded clip without cloud storage. You’ll get a screenshot from the start of the trigger, but if you want dedicated coverage of your little one’s activities, you’ll need to pay the subscription fee.

That’s really the only negative, though. The app is really easy to use and uncluttered, which compared to Hubble’s app experience, for example, is much more pleasant.

Range and connectivity

• Clear signal up to 150m
• No dead spots in the house or garden
• Privacy Mode cuts the Wi-Fi feed

The PIP1710 Connect has a really good range. During my tests, I was able to get clear audio and video throughout the house and garden, without any dead spots. In fact, I even took the parent unit on the move with us to see how far the signal would stretch. I got 150m away from the house, pretty much to the end of the road.

Motorola says the camera can achieve up to 300m, but my real-world test result of 150m also passed through multiple obstacles like houses and walls. Regardless, this is a good range and one that’ll satisfy any concerns about your parent unit not working in certain areas of the house or in the garden in the summer.

And on the connectivity front, Wi-Fi can be disabled via Privacy Mode (this is the eye icon in the parent unit settings). This ends the Wi-Fi feed almost immediately. Once on, the app shows the last captured image. If you try to look at the feed, the app fails to establish its encrypted connection, keeping your video feed safe from outside interference.

It takes approximately ten seconds to refresh once Privacy Mode is disabled.

Security and privacy

• Separate logins for extra users
• Five years of security updates

Setting up a second user on the PIP1710 Connect is pretty straightforward from a security standpoint. Rather than sharing a single login, you can invite additional users through the app’s settings by name and email, and they set up their own custom password on signup. You can also assign roles to these users in settings, giving them either common or administrator status.

One of the best security features of the PIP, though, is the fact that you can disable Wi-Fi from the parent unit itself. Both the eufy E21 and the Hubble GoBaby+ 5.0 only let you disable the Wi-Fi from the camera itself, but Motorola allows you to do it from both. This is only a small thing in practice, but if you want the reassurance that Wi-Fi is actually off, having a kill switch on both the parent unit and the camera is reassuring.

Motorola also states a five-year security update support for this device. This is clearer than eufy’s “lifetime” claim, which is vague given they decide a product’s lifetime period.

While I didn’t test Zoundream’s BeyondCry features, I’d want to know exactly what the company is doing with my data for its AI sound recognition feature before using it. This is something you might want to consider if the AI-driven features sound attractive to you.

Battery life

• Rated for 14 hours

Motorola claims that the PIP1710’s parent unit lasts up to 14 hours on a single charge. In testing, I found this was closer to 11 on medium brightness. Obviously you’ll get more or less out of it depending on the settings you choose, especially if you leave the display running in the background.

However, since the unit can be charged easily with a USB-C cable, I wouldn’t worry too much about the battery life in comparison to other brands.

Price and value

• Pricey at £230
• Core features are free
• Optional cloud storage from £6.99/month

At £230, the PIP1710 Connect is one of the pricier baby monitors. However, I’ve rarely seen it sold at full price and it’s subject to discounts at various times of year.

Unlike other cameras – Hubble I’m looking at you – the PIP1710’s core features aren’t locked behind a paywall. The core monitoring experience is free and you’ll still be able to get sound and motion notifications, screenshots and video recording, picture-in-picture viewing, and multi-camera support without paying anything beyond the upfront cost.

The two optional extras, cloud storage from £6.99/month and BeyondCry’s translation services, aren’t mandatory, and in my view, completely unnecessary.

However, in comparison to Motorola’s other cameras and the eufy E21 (my favourite baby monitor that I’ve tested so far), the PIP1710’s value is questionable. That’s because you’re paying a similar amount to the eufy for a camera that doesn’t live up to eufy’s 4K resolution and there are subscription fees involved.

That said, it does perform impressively, especially against some of the cheaper models that I’ve tested, with the reliable range, Wi-Fi control, and 1080p resolution giving it genuine plus points.

Should you buy it?

The PIP1710 Connect is a genuinely impressive camera, with a range that impresses. I got clear signals throughout the house and garden, and even 150m away down the road with multiple walls and buildings in the way. Combined with a Wi-Fi kill switch on the parent unit (a feature the eufy E21 does not have), it’s the monitor I’d trust the most if reliable coverage and hands-on privacy control matter the most to you.

It’s also the most transparent of those with subscriptions. You get core monitoring, recording, picture-in-picture, and multi-camera support without paying an extra penny. The two optional extras are genuinely optional, rather than locked features that feel designed to push you towards paying an extra monthly fee.

That said, BeyondCry is a difficult sell for me. It’s the one thing that sets the camera apart from its competitors, but locking it behind a paywall on an already expensive baby camera feels like the wrong thing to do – especially when it essentially preys on the anxieties of first-time parents desperately trying to understand their babies and their needs.

Elsewhere, the touchscreen monitor is a bit of a mixed bag. The lag when adjusting the camera is genuinely annoying, and the lack of an on-board clock feels like a serious omission. Video quality is good at close range, but softens the further back you go – so you’ll need to consider where you want to place the camera and what your needs are before committing to it.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great little camera – and one that offers genuinely good performance – but at this price, I’d rather pay a little more and go for the eufy E21, which offers 4K resolution and zero subscriptions.

We test every baby monitor in a real-world nursery setting for at least a week. We check video and audio quality on both the parent unit and the app, run night vision tests at set distances, and check the range throughout the house and garden to test its reliability.

Security and privacy get particular attention – we check account creation, two-factor authentication, and local-only Wi-Fi modes. We also check battery life against manufacturing claims and check the value of subscription costs where they apply.

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• Used as our main baby monitor for the review period
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	Motorola Nursery PIP1710 Connect Review
Manufacturer	Motorola
Size (Dimensions)	x x INCHES
Release Date	2026
First Reviewed Date	20/10/2026
Model Number	PIP1710 Connect
Resolution	x
Battery Length	hrs
UK RRP	£229.99
USA RRP	$229.99