The standard Design Studio doorbell, 2MP with an unusually wide 165-degree view. Wi-Fi, and locked to the Alarm.com service, so neither the picture nor the button press 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.
- Video Doorbell PoE / Wi-Fi
- A DoorBird or comparable SIP and ONVIF doorbell where the install wants a wired intercom
2MP across 165 degrees horizontal and 145 vertical, which is the widest view in the range and enough to take in a porch and the step at once. Video analytics handle motion and person detection on the camera.
Wi-Fi powered from the existing doorbell transformer through an in-line module. It ships in several finishes as the -BZ and -S part numbers; the camera is identical in each.
The button press is the loss that matters most on a doorbell. On a local doorbell it is an event Home Assistant can act on, announcing on speakers, flashing a light for someone who will not hear a chime, pausing the TV. Here it exists only inside Alarm.com’s own notifications.
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Recipes using this device
Away Motion Camera Alert
Installs Home Assistant automations that watch for motion while the house is armed and send you a notification with the camera view attached. Add presence sensors to arm and disarm on their own, a siren to sound off, and lights to flash.
Pause Media on Doorbell
Installs a Home Assistant automation that pauses whatever is playing the moment someone rings the doorbell, so you hear it over the film. Add your TV and streaming box so they pause too, and an outdoor light that comes on to greet the caller.