Netatmo announced yesterday that official support for Apple's HomeKit Secure Video feature will be gradually distributed to owners of its $ 200 smart home camera as a free firmware update is due in the coming days.

The new software for the smart indoor camera will be "gradually available" in the coming days.

HomeKit Secure Video was launched last year to address potential privacy and security issues arising from the use of third-party security cameras. Smart accessories compatible with HomeKit Secure Video will never upload your camera recordings to a third-party cloud.

Instead, video analysis is performed locally on the iPad, HomePod or Apple TV. Moreover, the videos are end-to-end encrypted and securely stored in iCloud, where no one can see them.

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Netatmo, writing in a blog post on his website:

Thanks to HomeKit Secure Video support, Netatmo smart home users will be able to store their videos locally on the included microSD card for free and on their iCloud with selected storage plans.

Users will benefit from iCloud automatic storage for 10 days for their videos, and this will not affect their storage capacity. If they want to keep the videos, after these 10 days, they will be able to save them to their iCloud, which will count against their storage limit.

The paid 200GB iCloud storage level is required for a single HomeKit Secure Video camcorder.

As mentioned earlier, the last ten days of your registrations are automatically saved in iCloud, without counting your current storage limits. The iCloud 1TB storage plan is required to support up to five HomeKit Secure Video cameras.

Netatmo's smart outdoor device will receive videoHomeKit‌ secure video assistance later this year.

For several years, Netatmo has been producing HomeKit compatible accessories for the connected home, including smart appliances, such as the outdoor room and the light, a smoke detector, a radiator valve, a thermostat and various indoor rooms.