![]() My camera was advertised as “Home Base not compatible”, meaning it does not use Eufy’s HomeBase hardware. So from what I can glean, if a Eufy camera uses the Eufy HomeBase hardware and is HomeKit compatible, it may not have this problem. The HomeKit support on other models is not confirmed yet, including the battery doorbell.” “For the device that support to pair to the Home app directly, HomeKit is only available on euf圜am 2/ 2C/2 pro/2C pro connected to eufy HomeBase 2 and Indoor 2K cameras. When I asked support if there were cameras that did not require a Eufy account, they said this: My camera was a "Security Solo IndoorCam P24, 2K, Pan & Tilt. To be more precise (and fair to Eufy), I think there may be some Eufy cameras that don’t have this HomeKit problem. I don’t think products should be allowed to claim HKSV compatibility unless they can be set up directly in the Home app or in some other way prevented from live-streaming outside the HomeKit ecosystem. I’m pretty annoyed at Eufy/Anker but I’m more surprised that Apple allows this. Either of those actions removes the camera from HomeKit, making it totally non-functional. The only way to stop the live stream was to either remove the camera from the Eufy app, or delete my account. I tried everything suggested by Eufy’s customer support but no matter what I did the live stream was still viewable in my Eufy web portal (which I assume then exposes it to the security flaw that the original story is about). But here’s the catch: You cannot stop the camera from continuing to live-stream to Eufy’s servers! HomeKit compatibility requires that the 3rd-party cloud storage be disabled, but apparently not live streaming. ![]() Once the camera is set up this way, you can add it to HomeKit. However, it turns out that the camera cannot be set up directly in the Home app – you have to use Eufy’s app and create a Eufy account first. I just bought a Eufy Indoor Pan & Tilt camera because it is advertised as HomeKit Secure Video compatible. I think there is a big hole in HomeKit Secure Video that may be relevant to this discussion. ![]()
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