We've been using this monitor daily/nightly for 9 weeks now and love it. The voice activation is awesome. It eliminates the constant static of an "always on" monitor, however you do have the option to switch it to be contstantly "on".
When we first set it up, we thought the voice activation wouldn't work but it has many different channel settings. We just switched the channel settings and it worked almost too well, which is where I have recommendation #1:
You may want to keep the baby's door at least partially closed to eliminate the base picking up other household noise. We've found that even...