During the inaugural WWDC 2019 conference, HomeKit did not have the prominence it had in past editions, in part because it is a technology that is already well established and the number of products compatible with it is increasing. However, surveillance cameras do not offer us any additional advantage if they are compatible with HomeKit, at least until now.
If in recent years, you have bought a security camera, you will have been able to see how all the manufacturers put at our disposal a cloud storage service that allows us to record everything that happens behind the cameras for a while. A paid storage service, obviously. With HomeKit Secure Video that's over.
Apple introduced HomeKit Secure Video, a feature that allows users with one of the HomeKit-compatible cameras from select manufacturers, Logitech is among them, the ability to record everything that happens behind the scenes for 10 days, which is about 200 GB of space in iCloud.
As we can read in the Logitech community forum, the Circle 2 wired will support this feature via a firmware update you will receive before the end of the yearAlthough it will probably do so a few months earlier, when the final version of macOS Catalina, iOS 13, watchOS 6, and tvOS 13 is released.
That space it is not discounted from the one we have contracted in iCloud, so Apple offers them to us for free as long as we have 200 GB of contracted storage space, a storage space that has a price of 2,99 euros and that if our entire ecosystem is based on iCloud, surely you we get the most out of it.
Especially call this move by Logitech, since the second generation of the Circle range hit the market in 2017, two years ago. It is certainly very good news for users who trusted these security cameras for both indoor and outdoor use.
