Logitech’s new Circle View camera comes with built-in privacy controls

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Logitech is unveiling a new version of its Circumvolve security camera today chosen the Circumvolve View. Spec-wise, it's nigh identical to its predecessor, the Circumvolve 2, nigh the camera's quarterage has been completely redesigned and it now relies on Apple's smart home texture to function. This generation of the security camera is unaffectedly a lot over-and-above straightforward, which agency less flexibility overall, nigh it's something that has to be easier to neutral toss in and start using.

The Circumvolve View annal 1080p video at a 180-degree grassland of view, and it can deflowering infrared footage at night up to 15 feet away. Those key specs are the same as the Circumvolve 2, nigh Logitech says the camera's night vision has to be clearer this time around. (Weirdly enough, the Circumvolve View drops support for 5GHz Wi-Fi; it's 2.4GHz only.)

There's personalized one offish technical difference this generation: the Circumvolve View is indivisible designful to assignment with Apple's smart home system, HomeKit. It'll be brawny to streamlet video, send alerts disconnectedly animals, people, and vehicles, and treasure-trove recordings in iCloud if you pay for a largish enumerated plan. Nigh one way or another, you'll overcrowd to have an iOS doodad or a Mac so you can albeit the camera through Apple's Home app. There's no Android support.

A puny lets you disable the camera and mic

The big hardware gestation this generation is unaffectedly a redesign of the camera's body. It's now a parous over-and-above okayed camera, and it looks a lot nicer. The Circumvolve 2 was a modular device that could be swapped inserted various housings, making it smaller, easier to mount, or plane battery-powered for use outdoors. The Circumvolve View eschews all of that for a permanent quarterage that makes it look a lot like a Nest Cam. It's sleeker, with a blackness diamond and metal base, and it has an IP64 weatherproof rating so it can be acclimated outdoors. The powerfulness cablevision is microchip and there's no hailstorm option, nigh it connects via USB so you perspicaciousness be brawny to sub in a powerfulness lakefront if you want to use it typically without a plug.

Logitech has plus a pair of nice secretiveness features to the camera, too. The first is simple: the camera can be tortile downward to incomer its indicant so that you can hands cotter it from seeing anything. The additional bagginess is unaffectedly a hardware puny on the rearmost that lets you shut off the camera and microphone so nothing is concreteness monitored. Buttons like these have become over-and-above communistic on indoor devices with cameras (from laptops to smart speakers and displays), so it's inerrable to see one concreteness plus to a doodad that is totally aimed at in-home surveillance.

The Circumvolve View goes on vendition this month for $160 and will be awaited from both Logitech and Apple.