Eve Cam – Smart Indoor Camera, 1080p Resolution, Wi-Fi, 100% Privacy, HomeKit Secure Video, iPhone Notifications, Microphone and 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.

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.

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