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ADC-V729 / ADC-V729AC

Not recommended

A 4MP outdoor floodlight camera with up to 3,000 lumens of dual LED lighting and a strobe mode. Both the camera and the light are driven from Alarm.com only, with no local control.

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
Protocols
Roles it can fill

4MP behind a 117-degree lens, two-way audio, and dual LED floodlights running to 3,000 lumens that can either light steadily or strobe when something is detected. The AC variant takes mains directly; the base model runs from a 24VDC supply. Dual-band Wi-Fi.

The floodlight is what makes losing it to a closed platform annoying rather than merely inconvenient. A floodlight camera is a lighting fixture as much as a camera, and on a local platform that light is an entity you can use for anything: a dusk-to-dawn schedule, a path light triggered by a gate contact, a strobe tied to an alarm. Here it is reachable only from the Alarm.com app.

If a client insists on keeping Alarm.com for the video, fit the security lighting separately rather than accepting a floodlight Home Assistant cannot switch.

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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