Cam (Apple Home) – Smart Indoor Camera, 1080p Resolution, Wi-Fi, 100% Privacy, HomeKit Secure Video, iPhone Notifications, Microphone & Speaker, Night Vision, Flexible Installation

I have used about 5 different security cameras with HomeKit over the years and over the past few years this one has been the most reliable of all of them. It stays connected without having to be reset even with me playing with my network. The camera quality is acceptable. It does struggle a bit if there is a bright light in the frame. The motion recognition is good. Wish Eve had a better outdoor solution than their current unit.

So simple to setup on the Apple Ecosystem. And with the Black Friday sale, I couldn’t pass it up at this price.

Additional update: still no resolution from seller. Down one camera and Eve customer service is zero support. Updated review as now there’s an issue and Eve Customer support says get ahold of reseller and there’s no way to get in contact with reseller, only option is troubleshooting. One of the two stopped working when I moved its location and in trouble shooting and removing charging cable to reset the camera, components of cable remain stuck in camera. An actual contact option would be most preferred to get this resolved. No issues with pairing with Apple home app and video quality is great day or night. Have one camera starting to have connectivity issues (when the other one isn’t and my wifi is working fine) so not sure what that’s about since I’ve had these for several weeks now and this just started to happen. I like being able to set motion zones, notification preferences (time of day, if I’m home/away, is motion person, vehicle, pet, or package, etc). I wish there was a wireless exterior version!

I bought the Eve and Logitech Circle cameras at the same time and tested side by side. The Logitech may have had slightly better picture quality, but it has low FPS, lagged terribly, and the stream would randomly go pixelated. By comparison, the Eve camera has higher FPS, very little lag, and is much more stable. I recommend this camera for HSV.

Updated 01/05/25: I’m lowering my star rating again. I’m really disappointed in these overall for how much I spent replacing my Nest cameras. Going to two stars total now. They are now going offline almost three times a week for no reason and again are missing recording events completely. I’ve now come to just use these for live streaming only since they are not good for anything else. Will be rethinking my choice when I can recoup some of my investment in these back. I do not recommend. Updated 12/01/2024: I’ve lowered my star rating one star (4 to 3) as I have had the camera in action for a whole month. The cameras tend to go offline once or twice a week for no obvious reason but do come back online. Most importantly they miss motion triggers a lot which means I’m missing recordings of something happening because the cameras tend just didn’t detect anything. This worries me as I might miss an important moment. At least with my Nest cameras I didn’t miss a thing since they were constantly recording. I’m pretty disappointed by this. Original review: I’m really excited to have cameras that support full native HomeKit and HomeKit secure video. No third party app required and no new login account. Best of all I already have iCloud+ so my cameras will store recordings to iCloud with no additional fees! Perfect! Setup was a breeze as is most HomeKit devices. I took down my old Nest cameras, put up the magnetic mounting plate included, and got the camera up there and connected. So let’s talk build quality compared to Nest. Given that these Eve cameras are still around $150 I expected them to be a little on par with my Nest cams. But I was wrong. They are very cheap feeling and the magnetic mounting plate is just a metal disk like one you would buy at Homedepot. Given the housing is plastic and not metal like Nest I do expect them to stay cooler and have better WiFi reception which is a plus. You can almost move the camera angles as you would the Nest cameras. Albeit one specific method, repositioning the lense housing left or right (clockwise or counter clockwise). The eve can’t do this. Not a deal breaker but just good to know. I found the cable it came with wasn’t long enough so I bought 10ft usb a to usb c cables. I’m super happy the cable is not permanently attached like on the Logitech circle view. Kudos for that Eve. Field of view or FOV is really good. A big step up from my previous Nest cameras. I was very pleased to see this. My biggest complaint and con is the night vision. My Nest cameras could light up almost a whole room and a half it seemed. Things were much brighter and it appears this is because the Eve only has four IR LED lights where the Nest had I believe 8. At $150 and in 2024 I expected the Eve cameras to have similar night vision efficacy but sadly it lacks big time here. I think the camera would be better suited at $89 or maybe $100 max. I did invest in these so I will give them a solid go for a while before making any new changes. So far everything is amazing and oh I almost forget the motion sensor in the cameras appears in HomeKit as something to trigger off of which is a huge bonus. Just wish the night vision didn’t suck.

When this works, it's great. However, if you lose power then the camera doesn't want to connect. And then it becomes nearly impossible to get it to connect back to Apple Home. So.. what do you have to do? Delete it from Apple Home, Reset the camera, only have 2.4 GHz running on your Wi-Fi network, try to re-add to Apple Home... and pray that you can get it to add back to Apple Home. I really like Eve Apple Home products, but this is the most frustrating product they have and I have a hard time recommending it.

I spent the extra money for these cameras to gain privacy with being able to store/view video within my own iCloud rather than setting up in a different app and account. I have a lot of issues with losing ability to view the live streaming but it does reliably capture movement so I don't necessarily lose ultimate functionality - it's just a nuisance.

So far so good. Girlfriend set up the camera with app, Apple TV, and iCloud in moments, while on the phone. Going to get a second Eve cam since girlfriend has 200GB of iCloud storage, and two doors to her condo. Truly a plug and play experience. The Amazon delivery between 4 and 8 Am is no joke. Dude was ringing me at 5:30. One thing, though, the package had already been opened, and contents removed / replaced. The camera didn't appear damaged and does seem to work so not returning.

Unreliable and inconsistent performance. 📉 Unable to maintain stable Wi-Fi connections. 📶 Inferior compared to Logitech Circle View. 📷

Camera is easy to set up. Video is reasonably clear, but not super sharp. Sometimes HomeKit misses identifying the type of motion you have it set to watch for and it doesn’t record anything. Home app video review is not very user friendly at all; but that’s on Apple. Big plus is that it can detect motion through windows since it uses image analysis. You can turn off the IR illumination LEDs if necessary. You can’t turn off the mic though. You can tell HomeKit not to record the audio, but the mic is always on and anyone in the home group can listen to the camera audio live. There should be a way to turn off the mic; I had to resort to covering it up with heavy layers of tape.

The camera disconnects all the time, so it’s impossible to watch what it’s streaming as many other people has already mentioned in these reviews (using home kit or the camera’s own app). It’s useless.

After 9 months of use I can say that the camera is not reliable, it misses detections every night and it goes offline every other day. Maybe a good a kid toy

Received as very good, but it was not. 5V DC adaptor was missing. Be aware. Description was wrong. Recommendation: don't buy as used.