Synology Surveillance Station 8.0 Part 3 : How to Set Up Motion Detection, Notifications,

[@francoisdurocher4951]

I listen to the three segments and I not only found it GOOD... IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!! While watching your tutorial, I installed Synology surveillance station and a camera successfully,and also did the scheduling, the detection area and the notification portions. Excellent turotial.

[@PhillipWolfUSCGBMCMret]

This is *awesome* ... I have the DS-416j and have been trying for weeks to discover all the Surveillance Station features on my own. Your three brief videos were jam-packed with information density and showed me just how much I have been missing! You just made a fan, Lon. Subscribed!

[@Tala-Ironside]

I've really enjoyed this series. Really impressed at how feature rich it is.

[@bertmannes]

Hello Lon, Thank for clear explanation about the IPcamera and the synology NAS. I was competely lost in setting up the Synology, but after revieving your video's everything was clear to me and it works fine. Kind regards, Bert Mannes The Netherlands

[@MRrwmac]

Excellent series! Very informative and well demonstrated! Thank you so very much! Now I just need to watch Synology for a sale!

[@spicemike6897]

Great series. You should make: How to Synology + UPS (connected via USB and network)

[@Redneck_Ed]

Thanks for the video. I had a Geovision DVR card for years, but now I'm looking for something new. Don't want to pay for cloud storage and don't want the cameras that only do motion detection. Also don't want to be strapped to just one brand of camera, so the Synology solution is a good one. Your video was great! Hey, I know you paid for the review but you did a super good job of explaining the software. Thanks again.

[@LonSeidman]

Thanks glad it helped! I agree it's a great "roll your own" solution with a ton of compatibility.

[@SalemikTUBE]

Nice clear videos. Thanks for the explanation of these functions. The search for the missing box was great.

[@ericbazinga]

Wow, Lon! Two videos in one day? Impressive!

[@LonSeidman]

I had 'em queued up :).

[@dennisolof9994]

Lon, great review. I will recommend this to a client, I am sure they will like it. Has everything you need for small scale surveillance. If I not mistaken there are some areas that have "porch pirates" so surveillance will protect you from that.

[@efox2001]

I love the smart search functionality. Now I am going to have to buy a couple of cameras to go with my drive! :)

[@mowcowbell]

Great video, as always. This 3 part review encouraged me to buy a Synology DS216Play NAS and setup my existing Amcrest cameras for video surveillance. Before this, I was recording the camera motion events to the camera's local micro SD card.

[@LonSeidman]

+Darin Kerr how's it working for you so far ?

[@mowcowbell]

The Synology NAS is working great so far. The only limitations of the Synology Surveillance Center are: Only 2 cameras allowed (without further license fees). Must use Firefox or IE11 to monitor the cameras.

[@kennedyalexander2349]

Mowcowbell r

[@NewCastleIndiana]

Great info, Lon. I've had SS for years, and you taught me a ton of new stuff.

[@HerbieLudwigbehrl777]

Nicely done. I was wondering about adjusting the sensitivity and threshold, and you answered my question, as well as giving me some other tips. I have rabbit highway through my zones, so I need to make some adjustments...

[@jvh007]

Wow, this is an insanly great review/tutorial. Seriously well done.

[@michelboonstra5938]

Thank you for your video's! This one and the others helped me in getting my NAS sorted out properly! 👍

[@JerodMatlock]

This set of videos was great - thanks

[@PeterSterrenberg]

really cool series, Thanks for this. One thing I would like to know before I order my Synology, Is how much disk space is average used by one camera when you store for example high definition video for a week. So I can decide the sizing of my NAS. Thanks Peter.

[@johnbaker1039]

Lon, how about a short series on setting up a camera and a router for remote access viewing along with the Synology station?

[@runneryg]

Great video for learning how to get to know my sinology drive.

[@trungcommandoanh]

Thank you LonTV, happy new year 2019!

[@mifo1133]

very informative, thanks! searching for some camera right after i watched this video series :)

[@Technosword]

These cameras are amazing

[@JamesG10100]

Fantastic series of videos! Thank you!

[@antsbell5059]

Hey Lon, i think this the setup i'm after, especially because i have a Synology NAS. Thanks for the extensive review/explanation. I had one slightly odd question... is it possible to automate turning the camera on and off depending on a few variables, mainly accounting for 2 people and if they're out of the house or not? The dream would be when either my girlfriend or I return home, the camera turns a full 180 or faces up, then turns off, (mainly just for the slight paranoia of big brother-ifying my house!) then visa versa - once we're both out of the house, the camera turns on, and turns back to its 'surveillance' position... Thinking of placing the camera just in the living room. Also wondering after all that, to turn the camera on when one of us plugs in our phone to charge for the night when we go to sleep. Is there a way to attach an IFTTT style bit of code to this? Possibly even mix it with a smart plug or something that just flat out turns the camera on/off and takes into account 2 people to make all this happen? I've seen it's easy enough with one person... but accounting for 2 people seems to be a real hassle. Using some sort of Smart-things hub could be the go... but i feel like i'm going down a very complicated home-security rabbit hole here. Would love to know your thoughts of how to achieve what i'm after? Thanks for your time. And if that's all a bit much to answer - keep doing what you're doing dude, loving your work. :-)

[@camerongeerling7474]

Just got done building a home, and I wired for POE surveillance cameras outside. I currently use a Synology DS215j (in raid 1) with 4TB WD red drives (thanks to a previous video/recommendation from you). If I were looking to put out six surveillance cameras, do you think I would be better suited to use this system, or should I look for an all in one surveillance system package? ie Lorex

[@chrispistocco]

Great video series! I think i will be upgrading my analog camera's and DVR

[@JacanaProductions]

Thanks for this series- very informative. Wonder how many cameras it can support without too much CPU usage/ load? I know they have higher performance NAS boxes. I just want to make sure I can run say 4 cameras and my Plex server. Plan to use POE not wifi.

[@Ru1uvus]

Excellent videos, thank you. Now I'm pumped up to get the surveillance app working. Didn't catch where to find supported cameras tho!

[@HerbieLudwigbehrl777]

www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility/camera The key is finding a camera that works with the ONVIF protocol.

[@CheatDayKerry]

Was stuck. This helped a lot!

[@fernyblue]

Could you set up 2 or more different profiles? For example you want your system to act a certain way when we are home but totally different way if gone for an extended time?

[@Kimmer]

With a 4 bay synology DS918+, would it be better to run a Plex Media Server and Surveillance Station w/ 4 or less cameras by creating one large volume with Raid 10 or would it be better to create two volumes (one for Plex and one for surveillance) using Raid 1 for each pair? I don't see any addressing of performance hit with surveillance station on top of a Plex Media Server? Thanks!

[@agredo]

can you do a review or video step by step how to access the camera but outside the home network?

[@skpManiac]

Do you cover setting up the PZT - Mine will not add any new presets and it's really annoying me, there are 127 defaults by Synology and they all do the same thing which seems stupid :/ Any help appreciated, thanks.

[@jack91522]

what load and hd wear does cont record present to your network ? anything to worry about?

[@allisterdavidson9805]

Hi. I;m trying to setup cameras to detection motion and alert me (which works) however I only want to notified at certain times of the day - mainly times when our surgery is closed. So if motion occurs M-F after 6PM and before 6AM I want to be notified. Any motion inside on a Saturday/Sunday I also want to be notifed. Outside of those times I don't need to be notified. I want to record 24/7 however. I cannot find where I can set this up.

[@LonSeidman]

If you're curious which camera I used in the video it was this one from Amcrest: lon.tv/b2zqu (affiliate link). Not a bad price either and it has continued to perform well.

[@G-MansWorld]

great videos .... I try to get continuous recording going but if I mark all the bars grey in schedule I have no green motion detection on my timeline ? If I change to all motion detection I do not have any other content on timeline only the events from my motion detection. Any ideas I guess I miss some setting ? Thanks in advance if anybody knows

[@Kimmer]

Thanks Lon. Could you run say 4 cameras on top of using a NAS like the DS718+ or DS918+ as a Plex Media Server? Just wondering how the performance would be and if it would require more RAM than 2 Gb?

[@Hurricurry]

Question. Does the Synology server allow 2 way audio to the IP camera and can you setup geofencing? Great video btw!!

[@superbaggio87]

thanks for the superb explanation i will get down to busyness asap and set up my own surveillance sys at home with my ds216+ btw if i plug 2 cam how big of an impact will it have on the RAM and CPU performance? anyway thanks for the great video you should have more subs :D ciao

[@wesdenton8643]

Awesome info thank you. I use Hikvision Cameras and Synology SS. Motion notifications works when I set detection source as camera and I get email and push notifications, but when I change to "By Surveillance station" it stops working. Can anyone help me?

[@doman90]

hey, but how to configure station to: recording continuously and get move detection notifications continuously. another thing, is there a way to quickly turn on/off move detection?

[@Nenilai]

Any way to setup push notifications on cellphones? I haven't been able to get that working, it works flawlessly on the computer but no motion detect events ever get sent to the phone.

[@vapb400]

Great video, thank you!

[@sfrerku]

Can you set it up to not notify you when a dog or cat passes by?

[@MRrwmac]

Lon, I’m assuming your cameras are all WiFi and not hard wired? With all your excellent tech savvy, perhaps you know how to connect a POE switch to the Synology NAS for surveillance station? I ask because let’s say 5 camera go to the POE and use only one cat5/6 from POE to the router, which would hopefully them be seen by the Synology NAS. With all cameras running isn’t that a lot of bandwidth over one GB cable along with what ever else is being done by the NAS?

[@LonSeidman]

Yes this is a very good question - the way I demonstrated it here the cameras are transmitting back to the NAS all the time and whatever bitrate those cameras are transmitting at will impact the maximum throughput of the NAS. That said some of these have dual NICs so you could dedicate one of them for surveillance station - so you could create a network segment just for cameras. One thing I might explore in a future video is using the camera's motion detection hardware so they only transmit when they detect movement.

[@nazz7303]

Will it work with NEST cameras, now that Nest doesn't want to "work" with anyone?

[@Landlordsplace]

wow great job

[@BUrbbable]

I don't have the smart search ?

[@cac2244]

My Surveillance Station doesn't record audio for Hikvision cameras with audio. I hear audio in Live view, i also hear in Timeline, but the recording on Surveillance station recorded on Synology NAS have no sound. I have audio set-up in camera settings in Surveillance station (i did not check Mute audio)...My codec on cam is G711. Anyone?

[@chriscampbell9133]

I updated my Mac to version 10.13.5 and then ( I think that was the reason) I lost my ability to only do motion detection with my two cameras. Now my synology nas will only record constantly. Also the synology Surveillance station is evidently not compatible with this operating system. Looks like only a PC is. I can use the surveillance station client however. Its very confusing. Thanks

[@fploegmakers]

EDIT: found it !!!!! there is a big difference between the "HOME MODE" and the HOME OFF there the NAS picked up the schedule to record all.... SOLVED !!!!!

[@TheSirNagrom]

My Event Detection is missing. I also don't see it in the available apps.

[@michaelmail123]

I think 8.2 changed the location of it

[@shunorrr]

can i see the cameras thru android phone?

[@scottparsons9266]

Good video but I see no "event detection" app

[@JustinEltoft]

I have two cameras, and both are set to record on motion. But only one of them sends a push notification to the Android DS cam app when there is motion. So far I can't figure out why only one sends the push. Any ideas? One is a foscam bullet and one is an axis dome. Let me know if the model numbers would help anyone. One is many years old (foscam) and one is new, not sure if that matters. I did make sure it wasn't triggering based on and digital inputs etc. I have used both detection from camera and detection from surveillence station. UPDATE: Oh, just figured it out. It's the "edit schedule" button when you select motion detection item. In there I had one camera allowing all the time and one never allowing.

[@LonSeidman]

Glad it's working now! Love your NES Ice Hockey avatar

[@toolate6971]

I am reading way too many reliability issues with Synology products. I will build my own 10 Core Xeon E5 with 64GB and GPU. I didnt really want to use Blue Iris, but it seems to be the best options. I hope at some point they will have a linux distro specifically created to run natively. Until then, Win10 is my best worst option.

[@interestingthings8598]

How much is one licence?

[@Oregonian1]

Licenses for 2 cameras are included for no charge. Amazon sells licenses for additional cameras for $55.99 per license. Or you can buy a bundle of licenses to get them a little less expensive per license. www.amazon.com/Synology-Camera-License-Pack-CLP1/dp/B001MJ0JAO/ref=s9_simh_gw_g421_i1_r?_encoding=UTF8&fpl=fresh&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=4KFKJ2HVSX3XS4048RAD&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=a6aaf593-1ba4-4f4e-bdcc-0febe090b8ed&pf_rd_i=desktop

[@interestingthings8598]

Ed Schwarz technically i dont know why i need some license to use cameras with synology, anyway two of them are enough for me, thanks

[@RubenCordero]

hey, you didn't talk anything about sound. at your situation may be not necessarily, but suppose sound detection or to talk through the camera

[@LonSeidman]

Yes you can have it alert off of audio triggers.

[@fploegmakers]

Nice video !!!! I have two Foscam camera`s (FI9805W and FI9831W) all works fine; exept.... (as always) The synology does record allways, continues, I deleted the schedule (grey) on the place as in the video, tested it to fill in a block of hours, filled in a block of "green" but whatever I fill in; it just records both camera`s, all day long. I see on the small square on the thumbnail that it is half green half grey looks like there is motion detected. Also the recording on the camera settings self are "off" but the NAS records all day everything... Anyone?

[@TheKataan]

What if the "event" was somebody steeling the Synology? Seriously, the most valuable things are in my office (including DiskStation). If somebody breaks in, isn't the footage gone?

[@LonSeidman]

Yes but you could use mirroring or a backup strategy to dump footage to another synology or to the cloud

[@Traveler-PKK]

My understanding is that it get's backed up to the Cloud Storage on your Synology. So, you still have visibility once you sign in to our Cloud Back up via any internet site. Also, you can buy another DS218 and update automatically into this one at a remote locations or a hidden location in your home.

[@froolix]

Why do you use a J-model for surveillance?! :-( I needed to get the 218+ for six IP-cams in 2688x1520@10fps.

[@hyperghoul]

Your house ready to be gentrified