In order to take full advantage of the HomeKit support, specifically the video recordings, you will need to be on the 200GB/month iCloud plan or above. It is done entirely in the Home app and takes just a few seconds.

In contrast, installing and setting up my Ring was done in minutes by following 3-step instructions from a pamphlet that was in the box. Logitech has a great website walking you through the installation process, but the fact that it needs a website to begin with tells you a lot about it. This is not necessarily hard to do, but it adds friction to the experience. Specifically, the installation of a chime kit on your physical chime added work to an otherwise simple installation.Īnd because the Circle View needed more power than the Ring, I also had to change the doorbell transformer in my house. Where I just had to connect a couple wires to the Ring doorbell, The Circle View required a bit more work. Installation was a bit more tedious than the Ring.

But a bit of warning: this review will be heavily tinted by my experience with Ring, which I see as the standard in the category, or the device to beat, if you will. In this review, I’ll share my impressions of this smart video doorbell. So I reached out to the folks at Logitech who sent me a Circle View Doorbell after giving me a short briefing on the product. Set up was a breeze, and daily use was just as frictionless as you would expect from a doorbell.īut then Logitech introduced the Circle View Doorbell in December of 2020, the first device of its kind to support HomeKit, thus playing nice with all the Apple devices in my house and pocket. So like everybody else, I settled for a Ring doorbell, which has worked reliably for me.

When I started looking at smart video doorbells for my new home, one specific feature I was looking for was HomeKit support, but as it turned out at the time (merely 3 months ago), there was none.

Logitech circle view