Eufycam 2 Homekit Secure Video Support Now Rolling Out

There’s good news if you own Anker’s eufyCam 2: the long-awaited support for HomeKit Secure Video (HSV) is now rolling out in the latest firmware update.

Apple first listed the eufyCam 2 as one of the security cameras due to get HSV back in November of last year …

At that time, only one camera offered it immediately, but Apple said it would be coming to five other cameras.

iMore spotted the firmware update.

Firmware updates sometimes take a little time to roll out everywhere, so if you don’t see it today, it’s likely you’ll get it during the next few days.

We’ve explained previously the benefits of HSV.

The situation is, however, complicated by the fact that additional cameras have a more basic form of HomeKit-compatibility, meaning Siri support and motion-triggered actions, but not HomeKit Secure Video. The eufyCam 2 got basic HomeKit support back in January.

With HSV, all of the people, animal, and vehicle detection is performed locally, on your own iPad, HomePod or Apple TV, and only encrypted video is sent to Apple’s cloud servers.