An eight-port PoE commercial recorder for Alarm.com camera systems. Local storage, but administered and played back only through the Alarm.com platform.
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A stream video recorder is the storage half of Alarm.com's closed video platform. It records only Alarm.com cameras, is administered from the Alarm.com account rather than on the box, and exposes no share, no ONVIF, and no export that another system can read.
An NVR is the one piece of a video system that ought to be neutral: cameras come and go, and the recordings should outlive both the cameras and the monitoring contract. These do not. Because the recorder is bound to the account, ending the Alarm.com relationship ends access to the footage already on the client's own hardware. We specify Frigate on the client's server, or a VMS that speaks ONVIF, so the archive stays readable whoever is monitoring it.
- Frigate on the client's own server, recording ONVIF cameras to local storage
- Any ONVIF-compatible NVR where the client wants an appliance rather than a server
Eight PoE ports, so it powers and records up to eight Alarm.com cameras from one box, which covers most small commercial sites without a separate switch.
Sizing these is the same exercise as any NVR: retention days against camera count and resolution. The difference is that the answer is configured in Alarm.com’s portal rather than on the recorder, and the resulting archive cannot be read by anything else.
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