Any Recording system for Surveillance Camera work with ST?

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I use a Synology NAS with the Surveillance Station software with the Synology DS Cam app on mobile.

I integrate into SmartThings using this Smart App by swanny

His smart app will create ST devices for each camera and you can grab an image from it, do the pan/tilt/zoom thing, and trigger other smartthings on motion like a regular motion sensor can. Of course for viewing live video or recordings you’ll want to use the DS Cam app from synology…because smartthings just does not do that.

Synology Diskstation & Cameras

I’ve been working on integration with my Synology Diskstation specifically the Surveillance Station cameras. The Diskstation is a network storage (NAS) and media server solution. It also has a full camera surveillance solution. The integration I have implemented uses local network access to connect to the Diskstation and allows creation of camera devices. The camera devices support taking of pictures, triggering recording on the NAS, and motion detection. Camera movement, presets, patrols, and zoom are also supported. Synology has their own separate DSCam app where you can view live streams and recordings. Synology supports a huge number of cameras which is great (https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/camera). However, the camera system is limited to two cameras without additional li…