The residential stream video recorder, adding continuous recording to Alarm.com Wi-Fi cameras. The disk is in the house but the footage is reachable only through Alarm.com.
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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
The residential recorder, and the box a dealer adds when a client asks why their cameras only keep clips. It gives continuous recording to Alarm.com Wi-Fi cameras rather than the event-triggered clips the plan includes.
It is also an upsell on top of a subscription that already exists, which is worth naming: the client pays for the hardware, pays for the plan, keeps the disk in their own house, and still cannot open a file on it.
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