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ADC-VC729P

Not recommended

The PoE commercial version of the 4MP floodlight camera, powered and cabled like any other network camera but licensed to Alarm.com for Business, with no ONVIF for anything else.

Selora does not recommend this device

These commercial cameras are PoE and otherwise conventional, but they are provisioned against an Alarm.com for Business account and expose no ONVIF or RTSP endpoint, so a Frigate or VMS deployment on the same network cannot record them and the analytics stay licensed to Alarm.com.

Being PoE makes the cabling ordinary, which is the frustrating part: the same cable run would feed an ONVIF camera that any video management system could use. As sold, the stream and the analytics are licensed to the Alarm.com platform, recordings land on an Alarm.com stream video recorder or the camera's own SD card, and neither is readable by other software. The community Home Assistant integration covers residential cameras rather than this commercial line, so even the cloud workaround does not apply here. We specify ONVIF cameras for commercial work so the client owns the footage and can change platform without rewiring.

Install instead
  • M3086-V
  • Hikvision
  • Any ONVIF camera line recorded by Frigate or a local VMS the client owns
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The commercial counterpart of the ADC-V729: 4MP with integrated floodlights, on a single Cat5e run rather than a separate 24VDC supply.

For a car park or a yard this is the sensible physical design, and the cabling is identical to what any ONVIF floodlight camera would want. The licensing is what differs.

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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