I couldn’t stop laughing! I don’t even remember telling them this, but I must have said it at some point in time, and they’d been having a debate about whether it was really true. Of course, I wasn’t going to break it to him that I usually just know what they are up to because they are still pretty predictable at this age, and because aren’t good at being sneaky yet {they whisper “don’t tell mom” loudly enough that I can usually hear them from the next room}.
As soon as I opened the box, I could see how much attention had been paid to the detail of the design.
The Hive View comes in two color combos – white and champagne gold, and black and brushed copper. The camera itself, a sleek cube, attaches to the curved base arm with a magnet, so you can grab that cube and carry it with you to another room anytime you want {off the base, the battery lasts more than one hour}. The magnetic mount also means that the cube can be attached the arm at any angle to capture the best view of the room. The base also comes with a mounting bracket, if you prefer to attach is to a surface or wall.
I’ve seen a lot of indoor smart security cameras before, but never one stylish enough I’d really want to see it sitting in my living room. But the Hive View blends right in in our living room!
The white camera will be really versatile, since I plan to move it around our house, but just think how gorgeous the black and copper version of this camera would look on the piano!
It only took me a couple of minutes to set up the Hive View, connect it with my Hive app via Bluetooth, and have it fully up and running. After admiring the style in the living room, I took it down to the basement family room/playroom where I wanted to test out my plan to let the Hive View be my extra set of eyes and ears while the kids play.
The boys are old enough now that they can play independently, and fortunately they get along really well and love spending time together. But they tend to get loud, as little boys do, and sometimes, from a distance, it’s hard to distinguish if they are fighting or laughing. When I’m up in the kitchen cooking dinner, for example, I’m constantly running to the other side of the house to the top of the stairs to hear what’s going on and determine if I need to intervene.
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