Double/Triple Duty Cameras with ST Hub

[JDRoberts]

If you do it with Synology, though, the video clips don’t show up in Smart Home Monitor, right?

Here’s the topic thread for the Synology disk station.

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…

Note that this does not connect the camera directly to SmartThings. You buy the additional device, the Synology Diskstation ( typically between $140 and $200), you set it up with the cameras, then you use Swanny’s code to integrate the Synology device with SmartThings.