Those looking for affordable HSK (HomeKit Secure Video) camera might be lucky: Aqara has announced that its long-promised G2H camera will support the Apple standard focused on privacy since launch. Although prices are not yet known, the company is known for budget-friendly products.
It follows news that the G2 Camera Hub will also be compatible with HomeKit ...
HomeKit News reports that there have been rumors of a Q1 version for G2H, but this seems far from certain now.
The camera, along with the future Aqara M2 Hub, was initially announced as early as July 2019, where HomeKit compatibility was first revealed. This product unveiling ceremony also included a series of ceiling lights and wireless switches, in collaboration with Opple, which have since been launched in China and the gray market for international consumers, although initial estimates for the launch of the G2H camera were not. officially announced, many rumors suggested a release date in the T1 region of 2020.
Because the Coronavirus pandemic affects Chinese production, most of the production has inevitably been pushed and understood, G2H is no exception.
As posted today by Aqara on their forum, the state of the company;
"G2H is expected to be launched later this year (2020). It will support HomeKit Secure Video and will not be limited by the Mi Home application: Aqara Home and Apple Home will also be supported. "
Indeed, Aqara and the companies promising HomeKit support, in general, are not really known for the exact release dates, so when it launches, everyone assumes now. What we do know is that probably the HomeKit Secure Video camcorder will be available at 1080p and will include an SD card slot for local capture.
Logitech Circle 2 cameras were the first ones to get HSV, which I considered to be a privacy gain, while they did not have certain functions.
HomeKit Secure Video is designed to address the main security weakness with most smart cameras today. To do things like detect people and face recognition, most cameras upload their video stream to the cloud and perform the analysis there. This means that the unencrypted video is stored on someone else's server, representing a tasty target for hackers.
With HSV, all people, animals and vehicle detection are performed locally, on their own iPad, HomePod or Apple TV and only encrypted videos are sent to Apple's cloud servers.
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