Logitech Circle View Doorbell review: The doorbell to beat for the HomeKit set

The $200 Logitech Circle View Doorbell is aimed at a very specific audience: Homeowners with wired doorbells who've embraced Apple's rapidly growing HomeKit smart home ecosystem. This is not a cross-platform product: Android users need not apply; nor is there any support for Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. The upside of this approach is that it allowed Logitech to take full advantage of what HomeKit has to offer, including HomeKit Secure Video, which uses the Apple hardware in your home to process captured video locally, versus uploading it to a server in the cloud that you have no real control over (you can upload encrypted video to your iCloud account, but you will be the only person with access--Apple won't be able to decrypt the files). I fashioned my own mounting block to compensate for the clapboard siding on my home. The downside, of course, is that you'll need to have that hardware in the first place: A HomePod, HomePod mini, Apple TV, or an iPad (provided it never leaves your house).