🔐 Configure Smart Lock and Video Doorbell

Last updated: September 12, 2025

View video doorbell feeds on your Windows PC, receive desktop motion alerts, manage smart lock access, and record security footage locally.

Overview

Welcome! This guide helps you integrate smart locks and video doorbells with Windows. We will cover live camera viewing, desktop notifications, companion apps, motion scheduling, local recording, RTSP streaming, and two-way audio.

What this helps with

What to expect: Medium difficulty • usually about 25-40 minutes.

This is one of 36 Emerging Device Integration fixes in the WindowsHelper library. The full step-by-step fix for this is in the WindowsHelper app.

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