Aqara plans to add ONVIF to the Aqara Camera Hub G350 in its next firmware, which should make the camera easier to use with NVRs and other video systems. That comes from a firmware plan that Aqara posted on its forum on October 30. The wired Doorbell Camera G400 is also due to get local face recognition, and the app will open a video call when someone rings the G410. These are still plans: nothing has shipped, and only the G400 has a rough target, around the end of November.
What ONVIF Changes on the Aqara G350
Right now, RTSP is the main way to reach the G350’s video outside the Aqara app. Aqara’s product page says only streaming via RTSP is available for Home Assistant. One forum member reports that the same route works with Synology Surveillance Station, but that you can’t pan or tilt the camera that way. ONVIF is the standard that lets cameras and recorders from different brands talk to each other, so this is good news if you run your own NVR. In May, Aqara said ONVIF generally only comes to PoE cameras. In October it confirmed that the G350 can support it after all.
An ONVIF promise doesn’t guarantee that everything will work, though. Aqara hasn’t said which profile the camera will get, or whether motion events and pan and tilt control are included. That matters, because Home Assistant’s ONVIF integration needs a Profile S device with at least one H.264 stream, and it can only use what the camera offers. A forum question about a fixed RTSP URL with a substream for Frigate also remains unanswered. The G350 is a Matter camera too, and Home Assistant 2026.11 brings live video from Matter cameras. That makes ONVIF most interesting for NVRs and software that don’t speak Matter.
Local Face Recognition on the Doorbell Camera G400
The Aqara Doorbell Camera G400 currently handles only motion, people and intruders in a custom zone locally. According to the product page, faces, animals, packages and vehicles rely on cloud AI and the HomeGuardian plan, which becomes paid after a free trial. Aqara now wants to move face recognition onto the doorbell itself so automations respond faster. That takes changes to the firmware, the AI models and the app, which is why the target is around the end of November.
If you want to avoid the cloud, this is the most interesting step. The G400 already supports RTSP and ONVIF, so you can send its video to your own NVR or Home Assistant today. Local face recognition would add a feature that currently depends on the subscription. However, Aqara doesn’t say whether it will work independently of HomeGuardian, or whether recognized faces will be available outside the Aqara app, for example in Home Assistant. So don’t count on the subscription becoming unnecessary: cloud storage and the other cloud AI features are separate in any case.
Video Calls on the G410 and What You Can Do Now
The change for the Aqara G410 Doorbell Camera Hub is smaller: when someone rings, the app opens a video call. According to the plan, that arrives in the next app version, but Aqara gives no date, supported phones or regions. The forum thread will be used for future camera firmware plans and to collect user requests, so that is where you can follow the next steps.
If you already own an Aqara Camera Hub G350, there’s nothing to do yet: just watch the Aqara app for a firmware update over the coming weeks. If you’re considering the camera specifically for use with an NVR, wait until Aqara says exactly what its ONVIF support includes. Until then, RTSP remains the route where you know what you’re getting.
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