Alarm.com's first PoE doorbell, powered from a switch or one of their recorders rather than a doorbell transformer. Standard cabling, but the stream is still Alarm.com's alone.
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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.
- Video Doorbell PoE / Wi-Fi
- A DoorBird or comparable SIP and ONVIF doorbell where the install wants a wired intercom
2MP at up to 1440x1440 across 150 degrees in both axes, and the only doorbell in the range that takes Power over Ethernet, from an ordinary PoE switch or from an Alarm.com stream video recorder.
PoE is the right way to do a doorbell. It removes the transformer, the in-line power module, and the Wi-Fi link in one go, and it is what a professional install would specify anyway.
Which makes this the most frustrating entry in the range. The cabling is exactly what an ONVIF door station would need, so the physical work is not wasted if the client later changes platform, but the device on the end of that cable will only ever speak to Alarm.com. Run the cable, fit a door station that serves its own stream.
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