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Re:Google will shut down Dropcam and Nest Secure in 2024 by kotaKat on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:57PM (#35545846)
Personally if I have to go into an 'alarm' ecosystem I'd go with Alarm.com if you're serious about paying for monitoring.

My favorite vendor is https://suretyhome.com/ - they have reasonable costs to get an alarm panel running with monitoring and all the normal integrations.

(I personally use an older Honeywell Vista security system that's been integrated into ADC via a communicator. The sky's the limit!)

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Re:Google will shut down Dropcam and Nest Secure in 2024 by jonathankoren on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:35PM (#35546420)
Is alarm.com just a vendor for other providers like Brinks?
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Re:Google will shut down Dropcam and Nest Secure in 2024 by kotaKat on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:45PM (#35548090)
They do, yes. Some equipment Brinks and ADT sells also is part of the ADC ecosystem, but is restricted to only those vendors.

Any other alarm.com gear is generally fair game as long as it's been released from any account it's on from any monitoring company.

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Re:Google will shut down Dropcam and Nest Secure in 2024 by throwaway19423 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:09PM (#35549506)
I am effectively a customer of alarm.com but not sure how. They seem to be a bundler or backend provider (sort of like a service OEM) for various branded alarm systems. Is there any technical material that explains what they do, and provides more visibility into the ecosystem?
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