A 4MP battery-powered indoor or outdoor spotlight camera with a removable pack and solar charging. Wire-free siting, but the same closed platform, and no onboard recording at all.
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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.
4MP with a spotlight for colour at night, two-way audio, and on-camera detection of people, vehicles, and animals. The battery is removable and rechargeable and it accepts the ADC-VACC-SP4W solar panel, so a well-sited camera need not be taken down to charge.
Detection is the thing keeping the battery alive: it records clips and stills when the analytics fire and sleeps otherwise. That also means it is not watching continuously, so treat it as event capture rather than surveillance.
Onboard recording is not offered, because continuous writes would flatten the pack. Everything therefore goes to Alarm.com, which makes this the model in the range most completely dependent on the subscription.
A battery camera earns its place where there is genuinely no cable, which is exactly the situation where a client is least willing to accept that the footage disappears if the plan lapses.
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