The front door, the gate and the camera, together.
Bell, lock, camera and alarm each come from another make. In Lenou they sit together, and opening stays strict.
What it is
The front door, the gate, the cameras and the alarm: four things, often from four makes. Together they are the part of the house that matters most.
Lenou brings them together, so a bell can open the gate and a camera sits next to the hall light. And it keeps opening strict.
What Lenou reads and controls
DoorBird
The station at the front door, over its local API. No cloud.
- Reads
- Who rings, motion, and the picture right now.
- Controls
- The door opener relays and the station's light.
2N
IP Verso, IP Style, IP Solo and older Helios IP, over their local API.
- Reads
- Who rings, motion, and the picture right now.
- Controls
- The door opener relays.
Niko Access Control (2-wire)
Niko's video door station. Signing in with the Niko app account is enough: the station's admin password is not needed, and nothing on the station is changed.
- Picture
- Straight from the station, over the home network: sharp 720p, at night in infrared too. The cloud only hands out the key; the picture itself never leaves the house.
- Reads
- Who rings, and whether a call is on, through the Niko cloud, within seconds.
- Controls
- The station's door opener, through the Niko cloud, the way the Niko app does.
- Video
- Also as a live stream for whoever runs a recorder such as Frigate or go2rtc: one connection to the station, however many screens watch.
Hikvision door stations
DS-KV, DS-KD and DS-KB, over their local API, for whoever has the station's password.
- Reads
- Who rings and the picture of now.
- Controls
- The door opener.
Nuki
Locks and the Nuki Opener through the Nuki Bridge in the house, without the Nuki cloud.
- Reads
- Locked or open, jammed, battery, and the door sensor where there is one. The bridge reports every movement within a second.
- Controls
- Lock and unlock; the Opener opens the door.
tedee
Locks through the tedee bridge and its local API, without the tedee cloud.
- Reads and controls
- Locked or open, jammed, battery; lock and unlock.
UniFi Protect
Every camera of a Dream Machine or Cloud Key, through UniFi's integration API.
- Reads
- The picture right now, per camera.
- Who is home
- If wanted, Lenou sees which phones are on the network, to make "home" for whoever had their device's address put next to their name. No names, no traffic, no history. Off by default.
ONVIF cameras
The picture fetched straight from the camera, with nothing in between.
- Reads
- The picture right now, with the camera account — not the cloud account.
Alarm panels
- KNX
- Arm and disarm, per partition too, and its state.
- BTicino MyHOME
- Read only — see the brief.
What that means in the app
- The doorbell opens the gate. A press on the bell is an event. A rule, written by whoever runs the house, can pulse the gate on KNX, light the hall and send a notification.
- Who rang this afternoon? Switch it on, and every ring keeps fifteen seconds of the doorbell camera. With the Lenou mark on it, kept thirty days, only at home in Lenou and not in the backup. Watch, download or delete it in the app and on the web.
- Otherwise a camera's picture is fetched only when someone looks, and stored nowhere.
- A wall screen never opens a door, not even with a PIN. Unlocking is for someone signed in to the app, or a rule.
Honest limits
- No continuous recording, no motion clips, no calls with the doorbell. Lenou keeps only the clip of a ring, and only for a doorbell that is allowed to. An archive stays with the system that keeps it.
- Ring clips work with a Niko door station today; other doorbells follow.
- Niko Access is tested on a real station. DoorBird, 2N, Nuki and tedee are built on their published APIs and tested against simulated devices, not yet recorded from a real station.
- Pulling the latch (Nuki) or pulling the door (tedee) is not in yet; lock and unlock are.