Circle View Weatherproof Wired Home Security Camera TrueView Video, 180° Wide Angle, 1080p HD, Night Vision, 2-Way Audio, Tilt for Privacy, Apple HomeKit Secure Video

Every other IP camera manufacturer should take note of the Circle View. Logitech pretty much nailed it on the feature set, picture & audio quality, HomeKit integration, and overall user experience. I've set up many different kinds of devices with HomeKit, both native and through a (relatively involved) Homebridge configuration, and including several different types of cameras. This camera was, hands down, the easiest one to add to HomeKit, and the most seamlessly integrated. Most HomeKit devices require the use of their own app at some point, but the Circle View is 100% HomeKit. It's fantastic in that regard. Physically, the Circle View is a nice size, unobtrusive, and the mounting system is very clever and adaptable to virtually any type of setup. The only very minor aesthetic gripe I have is that the integrated USB cable on the black Circle View is white. The Circle View needs improvement in motion detection and overall stability. The motion detection settings allow you to select either "Specific Motion," at which point you can selectively enable detection of people, animals, and/or vehicles, or "Any Motion," which offers no additional options. The "Specific Motion" setting only works well if the camera is mounted at or near eye level, as the AI is tailored to mimic human perception. Mount the camera up high, and it often fails to recognize things, so you'll miss important motion events. Set the camera to detect "Any Motion," though, and you'll be completely inundated with motion events. It'll pick up a fly at fifty feet, for crying out loud. Even a $20 WyzeCam has a "sensitivity" adjustment for basic motion detection, and the Circle View desperately needs this type of adjustment under the "Any Motion" setting. The Circle View is reliable in the sense that it reliably follows Murphy's Law. The likelihood of it randomly going offline is directly proportional to the importance of the motion event that it needs to detect and record. Sometimes it comes back online all by itself, other times it needs a power cycle. So...overall, a very solid product, with room for improvement.

I bought 4 of these cameras for my new home in 2021. The setup was easy and the cameras seemed good to go after I added them to Apple Home and hung them around my property. But what started as occasional outages became constant within a year. The cameras would just refuse to connect. I'd power cycle them and they'd work again... for a few hours. Then they were no longer available. They would work seemingly at random, but were mostly just down. Upon investigation, I found that the tubing around the wiring had split open at the back of the cameras (ALL OF THEM). This was clearly not just a dud; I had 4 samples and none were working. About two months ago I discovered an unopened one in a drawer, and I decided to use it as an indoor camera, hoping that being out of the elements would extend its life. However, it is already starting to go out for periods of hours at a time. I also use Aqara cameras that I bought at the same time, and I have NEVER had a problem with them connecting, regardless of placement in the home. Overall, I think Logitech just put these out as a cash grab for Apple Home users, and never planned to continue support. I would discourage ANYONE from buying even one of these. If you're an Apple Home user and looking for an alternative, check out Aqara's line of cameras. Yes, a hub is needed but support and quality are unparalleled.

If you're an Apple HomeKit user and want to use HomeKit Secure Video there aren't many cams to choose from. This is a good choice as far as the available options are concerned but its tech is getting stale when compared to other cameras. It operates solely on 2.4Ghz and its resolution is good but not great. The picture looks fine but details are missing and when you zoom in it pixilates and loses all detail and clarity. The resolution is a limitation of HomeKit. Video quality is limited to 1080p. This wasn’t such a big deal when Apple first rolled HSV out, but 2K and 4K cameras are common now. Even if your chosen camera supports a higher resolution, your video will be limited to 1080p if you use it with HSV. When you are squinting to recognize someone with a hat on or pick out a number plate, the extra resolution helps. On the other hand, you need a lot of internet bandwidth if you want to upload and stream 4K videos. You can review camera footage in the Home app on your iPhone, but HSV cameras can’t record video continuously. They only record motion events based on your chosen triggers and activity zones. You can scroll back through the timeline, and events are marked with icons, such as a person or package, but there’s no easy way to search or filter the recorded clips. All your videos are uploaded to iCloud, and there’s no option to keep local copies on a memory card or hard drive. Apple is falling far behind the competition on the home security front but on the other hand they aren't charging huge fees for the service. You will have to step up your iCloud storage subscription to at least 200Gb if you have more than 5 cameras. One thing to note: I had one camera come in with the most recent firmware preinstalled and the other two had older firmware. Upon initial installation to HomeKit the ones with the old firmware immediately started to update. You don't get any real indication that the update is happening so be prepared to let them finish. It only took a few minutes to complete. I returned one camera to Amazon for replacement because I wasn't aware that it was in the middle of an update and I unplugged it to move it to it's new location. Basically I bricked the camera because it didn't finish the update process and therefore would not boot up properly when powered on. The LED blinks a certain way to let you know what it's doing but being new to these cameras I didn't know what to look for. Just add it to HomeKit and leave it on for 30 minutes just to be sure. The latest firmware is 8.2.64 and that can be found by opening the camera view in HomeKit, tapping the gear icon on upper left and then scroll down to the bottom. You can also setup the camera's options from this page as well.

This is a great outdoor security camera. Many have complained about the difficulty with placing the camera outside while keeping the power supply protected from the weather. I installed two of the cameras and have small holes going from the outside of the house to the interior, and it works just fine. I wish the resolution was a bit better, because it is hard to identify a stranger's face with the cameras positioned about 12 feet above street level, especially at night. A word of warning : one strange problem I had when I first bought these off of Amazon was with mounting the base of the camera to the mounting plate. I found that both of the cameras were not able to slide onto the plate the way it was shown in the included diagram. I assumed the notches on the plastic plate must have a slight design flaw and I just needed to press down harder or even file them down, but I didn't want to damage them. I asked the company, but they had not heard of this problem. Eventually, I went to the Apple Store and bought two more cameras to see if they also had this problem --- and they were able to slide onto the plate without any issue! Comparing the two sets of cameras, there is a difference in the thickness of the little railing on the base of the cameras which the mounting plate is supposed to slide beneath. The Amazon-bought Circle Views were too thick. The Apple-bough Circle Views were just right. I then returned the cameras I bought from Amazon. I emailed Logitech about this. For some reason, there are Circle View cameras for sale that do not fit on the mounting plate. Maybe it is only a problem for some of the ones in Amazon's warehouse, but I think it is worth knowing about. Some minor connection hassles at first, which I notice happens with some other HomeKit accessories when you're installing them initially. But after that, the cameras have been great. I've had them for almost one month.

Bottom line first: I returned camera. I liked the camera when it was functioning with stable power. However when I removed power for 5-10 seconds and returned power, the camera would not re-sync with wifi network. Pros : >Works with Homkit. >No additional Hubs or apps needed. ** >No additional monthly cost. ** ** If you are an existing Apple product family you probably already have an Apple TV and the 200GB iCloud account. >Picture quality was good during daylight hours. >Motion sensing was very good. AI for discriminating between cars, people, and animals was very good. Cons: >Power requires USB Type A connector. This requires a large hole to be drilled for wiring to be managed. >Power supply is a USB wall unit that is not outdoor rated. Logitech technical support suggests that it not be plugged into extension cord. >Reset/Sync button is on back of unit an requires significant pressure to engage. I felt inconsistency on how hard I needed to press button. Direction state 9 seconds, however I found that I was pressing longer with no result and having to press multiple time before the camera would beep acknowledgment. >Camera would not re-sync with network after power outage. To use camera after power outage you need to reset camera and manually sync with Homekit. This requires deleting the previous camera from Homekit, pressing the camera's physical reset for 9 seconds, Sync with iphone on same 2.4G wifi network using QR code printed on underside of camera mounting plate. This is why I returned camera. I attempted to troubleshoot power loss sync issues with Logitech technical assistance. We had 3 rounds of emails with various tests. I ultimately setup a simplified 2.4GHz wireless network with only my wireless router, Apple Tv, Circle View Camera, and Iphone. All other wireless networks were turned off and the 2.4GHz network had all mesh/smart features disabled. Thru a series of tests I was able to isolate that the camera does not maintain its network configuration after a power interruption. Perhaps my unit is faulty and not performing as designed. These are my experiences with the particular unit I purchased. I will be returning my Circle View camera and looking for other options.

I recently ditched Wyze after their cameras didn't pick up anything while our cars were broken into. I've also used Ring before as well. This camera blows all of their cams out of the water. It has crisp image quality, excellent (and I mean EXCELLENT) sound quality, and a wide enough FOV that one camera is enough to cover my entire front yard. Image quality is super clear, whether it is day or night. Night vision is fantastic. Day or night, it's clear enough that I could easily make out facial details if needed. The FOV is super wide, but the image quality doesn't deteriorate because of this. Sound is ridiculous on this thing. If I wanted to, I could clearly hear people's conversations as they walk down the sidewalk. I went outside and talked quietly at different distances to see how much it could hear, and I could clearly hear myself even when I was out on the street! Detection (powered by Apple HomeKit) is fantastic. It accurately detects and identifies people, animals, packages, and other movements. When it makes a detection, it will start the recording at just a few seconds before it detected the motion (which you can adjust in HomeKit settings). Set up with Apple HomeKit was super easy. I had my camera up and running in minutes. I am incredibly impressed with this camera and recommend it to all of my friends. Unlike Wyze and Ring, I feel confident in the ability and availability of this camera to help keep my home safe.

Let's be clear: the only reason to buy this is because it is one of the few Apple HKSV-native outdoor cameras that you can run wired and doesn't come with a huge floodlight I don't need (like on the Eve). Like so many other reviews, I agree it is pretty much garbage. But I am getting OK use out of it, and here's how. First, you need a very good Wifi router. I've got an Orbi that automatically manages 2.4 and 5.0 traffic. This made setup very easy. No problems at all. Second, I use it to keep an eye on the front of my house while I am at my home office desk. That is my main use case. And sure enough, it disconnected 3-5 times per hour and sometimes much more than that. In Apple Home, I had it set to "Stream and Allow Recording." If I set it to "Stream" only, then it disconnects only a couple times per day. So I set Apple Home to "Stream" when I'm at home and "Stream and Allow Recording" when I'm not home. This made a huge difference. Of course if you want to record and stream at the same time, well, get ready for lots of disconnects. I did find that it disconnects less often if you set an activity area in Apple Home. My recommendation: use this camera to stream or record, but not both at the same time. Also, the night vision is awful--almost unusable. And it seems to reset the IR often, and I can't figure out why. But the night vision is so bad, it won't detect vehicles on the street as they drive by just 30 feet in front of my house! So this means you have to set the camera to record based on any motion, which means you get blowing leaves, snow, or bugs triggering the motion detector--and in this mode, more disconnects. If you want to record things that happen in the dark, this is not the camera for you. It is an outdoor camera with a power brick that isn't rated for outdoors! That is completely stupid. But since my camera is on my garage wall, I ran the cable inside the garage for power. But to do that, I had to drill a 3/4" hole in the wall because the power cable is USB-A! Overall, Logitech should be ashamed of this product. HomeKit users deserve more competition in this area. In particular, I wish Tapo would make an outdoor-rated version of their awesome C125 HKSV-native camera. That product blows this Logitech away in every dimension and it is less than a quarter of the price. But for the right use case, you can get by with the Logi.

17FEB23 Update: I've had this over a year now and have dropped my rating from a 4 to a 3. The reason for this is if an alert pops up (person detected, etc.) on my AppleTV and I try to view on my phone, it would often give me an error saying someone else is viewing and I can't. Possibly more of a HomeKit problem than a camera problem... It's very slow. I'll get a notification that a person is detected, and if I immediately click the notification and pull up the feed, by the time it has loaded the person is long gone. Finally, I recently swapped out my WiFi router and that basically killed this camera for me. After some trial and error, I managed to get it reset and connected to my Home, but then after a couple days it went offline again hasn't come back. If this was an inside camera, it wouldn't probably be that big of a deal, but it's mounted outside and I need a ladder to get to it... it's about 12 degrees right now and there's snow on the ground. No thanks. Ultimately, I'm probably going to ditch this and spend the money to go with a PoE system and use something like Scrypted, HomeBridge, or Home Assistant to get my camera feeds into whichever app I choose. Original Review: I've had this camera for about a month now. As some other reviewers have suggested, the camera itself appears to be weather-proof (although I have mine mounted under a sizable overhang so it's unlikely to get exposed to precipitation), but the plug is not. So far I've had no issues with this camera losing connection, and set up with HomeKit was a breeze. This camera works only with HomeKit, and while there are certainly advantages to this, the downside is there is less ability to customize without a dedicated application. Overall, it seems well built and is getting the job done; however, I'm not sure I'd get another one as they are quite expensive. I'm currently running a Eufy Indoor Camera outside as I could buy 6 of them for the price of this one camera. It got snowed on last night and seems to be handling it well so far.

súper fácil de emparejar con mi apple Homekit la calidad de video es buena y sin necesidad de extra trabajo para configurar o ver lo grabado. Todo directo desde la app de casa de apple

We purchased this last year and it's been running outside in Ontario for over a year now and has been rock solid. Easily the most reliable HomeKit camera we have. This is our second camera to replace a battery camera, since the motion detection range on the Logitech Circle View's is much better than battery cameras (it uses image based motion detection vs passive infrared motion detection). Very impressed with this camera. Pros - Rock solid connectivity - Crystal clear video - Reliable HKSV recording - Recording starts a few seconds before motion event, so it captures everything - Clear audio - Fast streaming time. Image appears near immediately Cons - No outdoor extension cable. This isn't a big deal for our use cases, since the length was enough; however, there's definitely some places where we would love to put one of these with an outdoor rated extension - No firmware release notes. We block this camera from the internet, so we usually manually keep track using websites to determine when new firmware for our HomeKit accessories becomes available. After talking with Logitech reps on Reddit: it appears this is not something Logitech offers for the Circle View. This means we'll just have to unblock it occasionally and let it check for updates.

se deja de ver y funcionar!!

Unlike me you should listen to all the reviews about constantly disconnecting from wireless. This security camera has amazing quality and simplicity of setup and use is top-tier. But that’s where is benefits end. I spent more time troubleshooting this than it worked. My wireless access point was on a shelf inside in front of the window where the camera was mounted outside. No more that 2-metres away from each other and on a 200mbps internet connection. Kept disconnecting, took over 30-seconds to connect to live view. And video was delayed and chopping when you could connect. Night vision with the infrared lighting is so bright that it causes the camera’s auto exposure to darken the image so nothing is viewable. It is also worth mentioning that Logitech’s app on the iOS App Store is defunct and abandoned. Hasn’t seen an update in years and currently crashes upon opening and trying to set up the camera. You can only use the Home app to set up some basic settings. I do not recommend this HomeKit security Camera.

La verdad supero totalmente mis expectativas, funciona muy bien, además que la calidad de los materiales es muy buena, como todo lo de la marca.