SAMi3 Sleep Activity Monitor

I don’t know why the epilepsy foundation recommends Sami. Wireless connections are standard nowadays. It’s not the 1980s, but we had to find and connect to the camera with an ethernet cable and modem. The app looks like a 3rd grade project and is very slow, clunky and glitchy. It decided you can’t use special characters to enter a password on one phone so it can’t connect, but it connected to the other phone no problem because it let us use special characters on that phone. I even redownloaded the app and keep my phone os up to date, and it still didn’t work! It looks like this app hasn’t been updated in years. It’s a piece of junk. The camera looks blurry and took several attempts to connect. It’s trash. We are supposed to trust our loved ones with this technology with all these problems? This is the most unintuitive, clunky and outdated piece of technology I’ve used in 15 years.

We are very thankful and grateful to have this system. It has allowed us to move our tween daughter back into her bedroom and still monitor her safely. The camera is very clear and picks up all motion in great detail (red outlines are a great feature) which is good because her seizures were often more subtle than most. As a software developer myself, I really appreciate the iPad mobile app's design and functionality. It is a great example of a purpose-built application for a piece of hardware. Everything is laid out in a logical manner from a monitoring perspective as well as when reviewing and managing the recordings. There are a ton of configuration options as well so you can fine-tune the sensitivity of recordings, alerts, schedules, camera settings, etc. This was really well executed and has been an important part of us returning to normalcy.

When you are the parent of a child with epilepsy, you are always on alert. This epilepsy monitor has helped me be able to get a decent night of sleep for the past three years. I love that you can add the app to any phone or tablet so that caregivers can monitor our son. It has captured several seizures for us over the years. We are so thankful for this.