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 license purchase.
You can download the SmartApp and device type here with instructions:
I’ve tested it quite a bit but there still may be some bugs. I don’t have a zoom camera to test that feature, but support should still work.
Looks pretty awesome. I’ve been using just the single camera license for now on my NAS but want to add a few more. I’ll set this up in the next couple days and give it a go!
Got this installed and working mostly. I can take snapshots with my DLink camera, but not my Hikvision. On the Synology, the DLink uses surveillance station for motion detection, and the Hikvision uses it’s own to trigger. Also, the Hikivison is using H264 and the DLink is using mjpeg. I mention these as hopefully clues that might explain the issue.
I am also having the same issue as Richard. I have 2 Axis 3014 cameras and can only take snapshots with one. Both camera have the same settings in surveillance station so im not sure what is going on.
@rog and @RichardH I have updated the device type with some additional logging to help track this issue down. Please download the updated device type from the link in the first post, copy it over your current one, and publish it for yourself. Then go into the app and click on the refresh button. Please send me the text written out to the log. With two examples I should be able to find out what is different than with my setup.
I just did this, but I don’t see anything in the logs different than what I sent you earlier. But I also did not understand the step in your post about going to the app and hitting the refresh button.
Sorry, i meant go into the Camera Device and press the refresh button tile there. It’s down on the bottom of the tiles. That should print out some new information. Getting tired and not being too clear in my typing.
@rog Thanks! @RichardH had sent me his logs last night and that’s what I suspected was the issue as of this morning. It’s great to have the confirmation. I’ll make the real fix to the device this weekend and update this thread when it’s done.
@RichardH@rog I have updated the device type to fix the capture bug related to cameras with spaces in the name. Just copy it over the old device type and publish. You don’t need to update the Diskstation (Connect) SmartApp.
You may need to delete the device that had the spaces in the name using the IDE or mobile app and recreate it using the Diskstation (Connect) SmartApp. The iPhone app seemed to have issues if the device had one of the bad images still linked, but deleting the camera device with the spaces will definitely resolve the issue.
@eatdoku This integration allows cameras from the Surveillance Station software that comes with your Diskstation to be used in SmartThings. Check out Surveillance Station and if you like it, you can follow the instructions to integrate the cameras with ST.
I did a bit of checking on the QNAP vs. Synology setup of Surveillance Station. It looks like QNAP does not expose the Surveillance Station API like Synology does, and it still wouldn’t be the same API if QNAP has added the support recently. Looks like your out of luck on this one. Sorry!
