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ADC-V515

Not recommended

A 1080p indoor Wi-Fi camera with HDR, sold behind an Alarm.com video plan. Now superseded by the ADC-V516, and with no local stream it never reaches Home Assistant.

Selora does not recommend this device

Alarm.com video has no local path: the camera serves no RTSP or ONVIF stream, and needs a video plan bought through a dealer. A picture can be coaxed into Home Assistant through an unofficial community integration, but only by way of Alarm.com's servers on a reverse-engineered API.

A maintained community fork does now expose Alarm.com cameras in Home Assistant, streaming over WebRTC and rendered by a custom Lovelace card it ships. That makes the picture reachable, which is worth knowing on a takeover, but it does not make the camera local: the stream is fetched from Alarm.com with short-lived tokens, so it depends on the paid plan, the vendor cloud, and an unofficial project Alarm.com can break at any time. Recordings still cannot be held on hardware the client owns. We specify cameras that serve RTSP and ONVIF directly, so Frigate or an on-site NVR holds the footage and Home Assistant gets the detections without a subscription in the path.

Install instead
  • RLC-810A
  • M3086-V
  • An ONVIF camera of any brand feeding Frigate, where the client wants local recording and detection
ha-alarmdotcom: the maintained Alarm.com integration fork, including camera support
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Roles it can fill

1080p with HDR across a 110-degree field of view and infrared night vision. It is 2.4GHz only, which is the detail that dates it: a house with a congested 2.4GHz band and a clean 5GHz one cannot move it across.

Two-way audio is on the hardware but was not exposed through the Alarm.com customer website, so even inside its own ecosystem the feature set was uneven.

Superseded by the ADC-V516, which is the same picture on dual-band Wi-Fi with the audio properly wired up. Treat a V515 found on a takeover as a camera to replace rather than one to integrate.

Hardware availability

Alarm.com hardware is sold and provisioned through authorized dealers, and the video, access control and business products also need the matching Alarm.com service plan on top of the hardware. The Z-Wave devices are the exception: they carry no service dependency once they are out of the panel’s network, and they turn up on the resale market at a fraction of dealer pricing.

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