Cameras, sensors and alarms
Your hardware, your footage
Most home security keeps your footage on its own servers and charges a monthly fee to let you see it. Ours records to a device in your home, with no fee to record or to watch.
- Sensors, siren and cameras
- Records in your home
- No recording fees
- Own your hardware
How it works
Pick the kit that covers what you want covered, tell us the property, and it arrives configured. Put it in yourself or have us do it.
Pick the kit
Both kits come with cameras and a recorder that keeps the footage in your home. If you want the doors and windows covered too, Alarm & Cameras adds the sensors and a siren. There’s no alarm on its own, because the sensors run on that same recorder.
Add cameras where you want to see
A doorbell at the front, a turret on the driveway, a small camera on a hallway. Each one records to the box in your home rather than to anybody’s cloud. Add cameras to the kit as you choose it, and where the property needs more than its recorder takes, we design a bigger one for it.
It arrives configured
Sensors paired, cameras named for where they go, alerts set to people and vehicles rather than every passing shadow, and access given to the people you name. You’re matching labels to rooms, not reading a manual.
Put it in yourself, or we do
Sensors and the indoor pieces are a DIY job, and we’re a phone call away if you get stuck. Wired cameras and a doorbell mean pulling cable, which is the part most people would rather hand over.
Doors and windows on the alarm
Alarm & Cameras adds contact sensors on the doors and windows, a glass break sensor that also sees motion, and a 110 dB siren, armed and disarmed from your phone. The cameras show you why it went off.
The only copy is yours
Recording happens on a recorder in your home, and the recorder is yours. We do not keep a copy of the footage, and the recorder logs whoever opens it. If you want an off-site copy against fire or theft, you choose where it goes.
No fee per camera
Adding a fourth camera costs you a camera. There’s no subscription that grows every time you decide to cover another corner of the property.
Find the moment in seconds
Search by person or by vehicle, or draw a box around the part of the driveway you care about. You aren’t scrubbing six hours of an empty lawn.
Alerts that mean something
Set it to tell you when a person is in the driveway at two in the morning and to stay quiet about the neighbor’s cat. A notification you have learned to ignore is worse than none at all.
It keeps working when the internet doesn’t
Cameras record locally, so an outage doesn’t leave a gap in the footage. The only thing affected is watching it from somewhere else.
Pick the one that suits your home
Prices cover the hardware and the setup. Add what your home needs, or have it designed around the property if none of them are right for it.
See who came and went
Two cameras and a recorder that keeps the video in your home. Wi-Fi cameras plug into an outlet, on a porch or a shelf, with nothing drilled; wired ones run on one cable each, for a view that never depends on the signal.
Features
- Video kept on 4 TB of storage in your home, with no cloud subscription
- Arrives configured for the property
- Cameras plug into an outlet, indoors or out
- Not included: A cable to each camera, for greater reliability
- Not included: Recognizes familiar faces and reads license plates
What’s included
Recorder4 TB
Records the cameras
2G4 Instant2K
Wi-Fi camera
Cameras
Picture
What’s included
Whichever one you choose, this is what you get.
- A recorder kept in your home, with two cameras to start
- Wi-Fi cameras that plug in, or wired ones
- Every camera named for where it goes, before it ships
- More cameras as you need them
- Alerts for people and vehicles, not every passing shadow
With every system
Support Plan
$35per month
One flat fee, whatever ends up on the property. No long-term contract, and nothing stops working when it ends.
How the Plan WorksWhat it covers
- Someone to call during business hours when something is wrong
- We’re alerted when your equipment goes offline, and we fix what we can remotely
- Replacement hardware configured before it reaches you, so it drops straight in
- Firmware and security updates on a schedule
- Getting the network back online after your internet company swaps the modem†
- Forgotten Wi-Fi passwords and guest access, handled on a call
- Content and site blocking on the devices you choose†
- Port forwarding when a game or a work tool needs it†
- Setting the system up again when you move
† Requires a managed gateway
What we can see, and what we can’t
Letting a company into the system that watches your home is a real thing to be uneasy about. Here’s exactly what we hold and what we don’t, and it’s written into our privacy policy.
We never hold a copy of your footage
Cameras record to the recorder in your home. The accounts we work from day to day cannot open footage at all.
You decide who can watch
The recorder logs whoever opens your footage. You can see that list and change who has access whenever you want.
Common questions
Not for recording and not for viewing. That hardware is yours and it lives in your home. The only monthly charge is the support plan that comes with every system. It’s month to month, and nothing stops working if you cancel it.
It depends on how many cameras you run, whether they’re 2K or 4K, and whether they record continuously or only when something is detected. The kits ship with 4 TB, which is comfortable for the cameras they include. Add cameras, or set everything to record around the clock, and the same drive covers a much shorter window. Tell us the window you care about and we’ll set each camera up to fit it: continuous where it matters, detections only where it doesn’t.
You buy the equipment once and it’s yours, the recording sits on a device in your home, and none of it stops working if you stop paying us. Ring and SimpliSafe sell you the hardware too, but recorded video lives in their cloud, and keeping it is what the monthly fee pays for.
Through Home Assistant, yes. The UniFi integration brings the cameras and the sensors in alongside everything else you run, and we can set that up as part of a custom design. On their own the cameras and the alarm live in the UniFi Protect app, which is where you arm, disarm and watch: UniFi doesn’t publish an Alexa, Google or HomeKit integration for them.
Our alarm is self-monitored: a tripped sensor sounds the siren and alerts your phone. While we do not offer alarm monitoring, Ubiquiti has announced its own, powered by Noonlight, for UniFi Protect 7.4.
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Still not sure which one?
Answer a few questions about your home and we’ll point you at the package that suits it. It takes a couple of minutes, and you can call us instead if you’d rather just talk it through.