The eufyCam 2 is a great addition to a home security system — Apple World Today

HomeKit is a framework that allows control of compatible home automation devices through iOS and Siri. What’s more, it takes advantage of HomeKit Secure Video. Using an Apple TV, HomePod, or iPad as the home hub, the system uses on-device intelligence to privately analyze activity captured from the eufyCam 2 to detect whether it sees a person, vehicle, or an animal before securely sending it to iCloud. This helps make sure that you only get notified when there’s important activity detected in their home.

A bit of an explanation: you can use Apple’s Home app and Siri, its “personal digital assistant,” to stream live video from the eufyCam 2 to an iOS or iPadOS device. The camera system sends notifications directly to iPhones or iPads whenever it detects motion, so that users can see live video immediately from the lock screen of their devices. Of course, you don’t want to be “pinged” every time a butterfly flits by a camera lens. That’s where HomeKit Security Video comes in.

After using the eufyCam app — free at the Apple App Store — to set up the eufyCam 2, you add the camera as an accessory in the Home app. You’ll see a notification on your iPhone or iPad that says that the camera is added. 

You need to ensure that you add the eufyCam 2 to the same network that your Home app is on and that the network is stable. If your network disconnects while you’re recording, your video might not be stored in Cloud. 

When everything is set up and working, you can choose when the eufyCam streams and records and who can view that video, change your camera’s accessory settings, switch the room where your camera is located in the Home app, or add your camera to Favorites. You can also change these settings later.  By the way, you’ll get a notification if you reach the maximum number of recording-enabled cameras supported with your iCloud storage plan. 

Using the Home app, iOS and iPadOS users can view live video of their security cameras as well as view 10 days of recent activity detected by them. Customers who have a 200 GB iCloud plan can add one camera at no extra cost; those with a 2TB plan can add up to five cameras.