Awesome new alarm.com feature. Coming to surety in future?

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In reference to RVM pricing structure, I had four VC727P (PoE) cameras installed outside. Depending upon price, I would have two, but would consider the other two outside cameras, as well. If the ADC-755P (PoE) doorbell camera is added to the list of supported cameras, then I would three with two others depending upon price.

For us we’d be looking to do RVM for at least 4 cameras, but depending on pricing that number could be over 6 cameras as they’re on a corner lot with nobody behind or to the side and plenty of areas where someone could walk up without being seen. My best guess would be a total of 7 or 8 that would be considered for RVM out of maybe 10-12 cameras total. Due to the frequent criminal and gang activity across a field from them (they’re in a nice area, but their street is a dead end and their house is at the very end), the frequency of random people coming into their property in the middle of the night, and them being elderly folks with mobility issues, we are looking into making the switch to ADC for security, safety and possibly wellness features.

Would you consider $60/month for the first RVM camera and $15/month for each additional RVM camera reasonable and a good value?

That’d mainly depend on how it works. Do you have more information about when it’d be active, how the monitoring center responds to different scenarios, how they interact with people using two way talk down, what happens when they need to contact someone, etc.

One company that does this sort of thing will interact with people and call contacts to verify if a person is allowed to be there and handle the situation from there. Since the monitoring is always active or scheduled by the user, they will take that into consideration that people who are allowed to be there could show up.

A different company only monitors when the alarm system is on, and from what I seen typically only asks people to disarm the system and leave the property or police will be called. They rely on the alarm system being disarmed to verify if someone is meant to be there. I can kinda see why they’d to that, but I still prefer the method the other company uses.

Current thinking is we wouldn’t impose restrictions on when it’s active but the expectation is you only have it monitoring areas where people aren’t supposed to be. It’s not intended to be your doorman and greet your guests. For many areas, that would mean you only keep it active during certain hours or when the alarm is armed. It would depend on your situation.

That’s clever. What I have in mind is more like the first company you described. We would call the contact list to verify if a person is supposed to be there.

The one thing I hate about these two companies is that they both have good ideas, but in completely different areas.

I’d be great if we could have both a schedule, say from 8pm to 8am, when RVM is enabled, but also have it enabled when the system is armed regardless of time.

I love that one has two different levels of interacting with people instead of giving the same disarm the system or leave script. At the same time, using a valid disarm as an option to verify someone is a pretty clever way to go about it.

There’s so many things about those two that I wish would be brought into one service.

That would be technically possible. Each camera supports up to 3 recording rules. You could have on the same camera:

  • 1 rule that is only active at night and triggers the monitoring center
  • 1 rule that is only active when the system is armed and triggers the monitoring center
  • 1 rule that is active all the time but only sends you notifications and doesn’t trigger the monitoring center

I like what I’m hearing.

I haven’t used ADC cameras before. Is it just one set of rules for the whole location or can you set it on a per camera basis?

Recording rules are per camera. Each camera can have up to 3 different recording rules.

Yeah, I’d say a 60/15 cost is worth it for us.

Someone came last night again and tried to break into the house just before 11pm. It wouldn’t be hard for us to convince them to switch to ADC with RVM. This is getting ridiculous.

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Thanks, we really appreciate the feedback!

The Alarm.com Floodlight Camera is available now.

Wow, that’s some good pricing too.

How do ADC cameras compare to Ring cameras? I’ve heard that Ring heavily compresses the video compared to other options, and we definitely think the quality could be better on the Ring cameras at our house and my other family member’s house. On top of that they aren’t really adding anything new or interesting these days except for higher pricing.

If RVM becomes available, we’d be looking at getting 5-6 floodlight cameras for them plus a couple of the outdoor AI cameras. We’re looking at upgrading cameras at my house too, but we’re not sure if we’ll be moving within the next year or staying here.

How do ADC cameras compare to Ring cameras?

I’ve not used Ring floodlight cameras to compare them. Are those 1080P resolution?

I can confirm there is a distinct jump in image quality and detail when live streaming at the highest resolution on the ADC Floodlight vs the 1080P setting. I think you would notice a pretty big difference side by side.

Yep, they’re 1080p.

I like that the ADC floodlight cam is 4mp. I’d like to see something like the V724X with 4mp. Do you think that’s something ADC might do in the future?

Yeah it is very likely to see 4mp outdoor cameras released. I think there is a new line they are working on.