Logitech's Circle 2 is first cam to support Apple's HomeKit Secure Video

Logitech's Circle 2s became the first cameras to support Apple's HomeKit Secure Video storage feature on Thursday with the release of a beta firmware designed to upgrade units already in customers' hands.

HomeKit Secure Video allows users to safely store activity detected by the Circle 2 in iCloud and view live and recorded video from their Circle 2 camera in the Apple Home app on an iPhone, iPad or Mac, according to the Logitech press release.

Apple will store up to ten days of recordings inside of iCloud for one camera if subscribed to the 200GB iCloud Storage Plan, and will store up to ten days of recordings for five cameras if on the 2TB iCloud Storage Plan.

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HomeKit Secure Video recordings will not count against your storage capacity. The 2TB plan runs users $9.99 a month which is favorable compared to third-party storage plans and iCloud also has far more features to back it up outside of video storage.

AppleInsider has already checked out the Circle 2, noting that the camera itself is extremely reliable, though its integration with Apple HomeKit left a bit to be desired.

Those interested in purchasing the Logitech Circle 2 can snag one from Amazon for $143.46, with free shipping for those with Amazon Prime.

9 Comments

indiekiduk 386 comments · 16 Years

About 5 years ago

5 cameras? Unless they fixed it you could only live view max 2 Circle cameras in HomeKit (among many other issues).

Given Logitech offer 24 hours of free recordings it's a shame Apple didn't match that, the day summary feature was quite handy too wonder if you get to keep that.

Wgkrueger 352 comments · 8 Years

Excellent news. I’ll be adding my cameras back onto HomeKit now that I’ve got a good reason to :-)

edit: Well, once the Logitech code is out of beta that is.

j2fusion 153 comments · 13 Years

Anyone know if HomeKit Secure Video supports more than 5 cameras? Also, will you be able to switch between the Logitech storage and Apple’s?

mistergsf 243 comments · 19 Years

indiekiduk said:

5 cameras? Unless they fixed it you could only live view max 2 Circle cameras in HomeKit (among many other issues).

Given Logitech offer 24 hours of free recordings it's a shame Apple didn't match that, the day summary feature was quite handy too wonder if you get to keep that.

I have had 3 Circle 2 cameras viewable in my Home App since they became HomeKit compatible. I've not had any issues at all with them; they've been very reliable in fact. They only thing that's bugged me is you can't do much with them in the Home App so I always use the Logi Circle app instead.

tstump 28 comments · 12 Years

Great review. Super excited about this product and even more eager for future enhancements of both their product and apples underlying HomeKit technologies.

apples approach with HomeKit is definitely the smartest in the market. Making sure that Wi-Fi is secure enough to use in this application is imperative.

There still a little awkwardness in the coding of the device number.