Can you connect a wi-fi camera to the OSI Smart Alarm System?

2 min. readlast update: 10.17.2023

No, you cannot connect any cameras to this Alarm System. 

The OSI Wi-Fi Cameras are used to compliment the OSI Alarm System by helping to confirm whether or not someone actually broke into your home (among other security reasons such as monitoring kids, pets, recording any suspicious activity in your home etc ). They both use the same Smart Life app but, the OSI Wi-fi Cameras do not connect physically or wirelessly to the OSI Alarm System. We recommend at least using a couple Mini Cameras pointed at your front and rear entrence.

When your alarm is trigged by one of the sensors and you receive a notification to the Smart Life App on your smartphone/tabelet, then instead of having to physically check on your property to see if anyone broke into your house, all you have to do is open up the Mini Camera Device on your phone using the same Smart Life app to check to see if anyone is in fact inside your home.

Also, if anyone actually did go into your home, you would also get an additional "motion trigger notification" to your smart life app from the mini camera. This gives you an additional confirmation that someone has broken into your home. If your OSI Mini Camera is set to record only motion, then if someone is in your home it would have recorded the incident.

So again, to reiterate, the OSI Mini Camera does not physically connect to the Alarm System, it only uses the same Smart Life app to control and monitor both the OSI Alarm System and the OSI Mini Camera as separate devices but, together work to help with self monitoring and avoid the need to pay for monthly monitoring fees which a regular alarm system requires.

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