Hive View hands-on: Yves Béhar’s beautiful Nest Cam rival

The connected security camera market is crowded right now, but Hive believes its Yves Béhar designed Hive View can carve out a space. Latest product from the company trying to make smart home tech not only functional but beautiful too, the Nest Cam rival follows Hive’s connected thermostat and other devices that, having launched first in the UK, began arriving on US shores last year.

The camera itself is a roughly 2.25-inch cube, with a 1080p sensor for HD live streaming and a 130-degree field of view. It has automatic night-vision, along with a microphone and speaker (though two-way audio will be following on at some point in 2018). What really sets it apart, though, is the battery.

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