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Netatmo has decided to support Apple's HomeKit Secure Video platform. The manufacturer's indoor cameras are now compatible, and it should only be a matter of days for the outdoor cameras.

Good news for HomeKit and Netatmo surveillance camera users. These will soon be compatible with HomeKit Secure Video. This is already the case for the Smart Indoor Cameras with and without siren (derived from the Welcome) thanks to an update deployed in February, and the manufacturer indicates that its Smart Outdoor Cameras with and without siren (derived from the Presence) will receive one in turn "in the days that follow". Users will thus have an additional storage option for their recordings, which it was previously possible to store on Dropbox, an FTP server or, locally, on a microSD card.

More than a storage solution

Apple's solution is obviously based on iCloud and promises to guarantee perfect confidentiality thanks to encryption performed before sending videos to the brand's servers at the apple. The recordings are kept for 10 days and visible in the Home application, which also offers many configuration options, for alerts first of all with the recognition of people, animals or vehicles. Note that, as with encryption, image analysis is done locally.

It is also possible to include cameras compatible with HomeKit Secure Video in scenes and automations of the Home application, in order to use them, among other things, as presence detectors for the automatic switching on of lamps. It is therefore much more than a simple storage medium that Netatmo cameras gain with Apple's solution, and the manufacturer has indicated that it is preparing a similar update for its Smart Video Doorbell. Note, however, that HomeKit Secure Video requires an iCloud plan of at least 200 GB for a camera, and that it is not possible to use more than 5 cameras with the 2 TB plan.

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