Logitech’s Circle View Doorbell is safe ... for now

Apple HomeKit users tin respire a suspiration of relief. Logitech’s Circle View Doorbell and Circle View Camera, an indoor/outdoor information camera, are inactive being manufactured and sold — contempt a remark from Logitech’s CEO saying she thought they were “pretty overmuch gone,” though she would request to “double-check.”

The Circle View lineup represents 2 of conscionable a fistful of information cameras compatible with Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video service. If they went away, it would beryllium slim pickings for astute location users who similar the information and privateness features of Apple’s video services.

Logitech’s caller CEO, Hanneke Faber, was interviewed by The Verge’s Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel connected his Decoder podcast this week. She told him the institution — which is known for its sprawling merchandise categories (RIP Harmony) — was present focused connected 3 areas: idiosyncratic workspace, video conferencing, and gaming.

In effect to a question astir astute location doorbells, she said, “I deliberation those are beauteous overmuch gone. ... I request to double-check, but I’m not adjacent definite those are inactive being sold.” You tin spot a video of the speech connected TikTok.

We double-checked for her, and Logitech’s Wendy Spander, Global Head of Communications, clarified to america that “The Circle View products are inactive successful production, and we presently merchantability them (as bash our retail partners). They person not been discontinued. They are successful banal and acceptable to ship.” Both are disposable connected Logitech’s website, confirming her statement.

Considering the past astute location merchandise from Logitech launched much than 3 years agone (the Circle View Doorbell), and the caller CEO intelligibly doesn't see astute location devices to beryllium a important portion of the company’s concern — don’t clasp your enactment for a caller model.

The bully quality is that Faber told Patel Logitech would proceed to enactment each its products for immoderate time. This presumably includes its Circle camera line-up, which was discontinued a fewer years back, on with the Circle View products that are inactive sold. The second besides enactment exclusively done the Apple Home app. So, you wouldn’t adjacent person to trust connected Logitech to support a abstracted app to support utilizing them.