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Synology Release the BC500 and TC500 NAS IP Cameras for Surveillance Station It’s been over five months since Synology revealed that they were in the process of releasing their own NAS surveillance cameras for use in conjunction with Surveillance Station, but today is the official release...

Back in Oct of 2022 during the "2023 and beyond" event, Synology has already announced many new things that will come during this year. From DSM 7.2 (currently in beta), a new Scale-Out line of hardware, and on top of it all, new surveillance cameras. Continue reading...

I have 2 separate sites with separate public IP's. I have never been able to view the 2nd site camera with surveillance station and I've been told its because SS can only find and receive feeds from cameras that are on the same LAN as the device hosting SS. Last time I looked into this was...

I have 2 separate sites with separate public IP's. I have security cameras at both sites and want to monitor all the cameras with surveillance station. The controllers for both sites are hosted at my home site on my Synology NAS. This is the ubiquiti gear at home: While this is the gear I...

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I have recently purchased a ds220+ with 16 cameras, everything seems ok...except the fact in ds cam only 6 cameras can be seen at a time per screen, i have an android phone and with a cheap app like the ip cam viewer i can see up to 16 in single screen or more, anybody knows if more than 2x3...

A bit off topic but Homebridge is running on my NAS. So.......... I've installed HomeBridge (non-docker version) on my NAS and it's working well. So far I've got it integrating my ADT alarm system (alarmdot.com), Sky Q box, Sony Bravia TV, so I know it is all working. I've installed the FFmpeg...

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Dears, Let me first thank your cooperation and help in this forum. A surveillance cameras project for home use is to be done. All IP cameras will be linked to a local network through a switch. A group of cameras , 5 to 10 , are mostly ONVIF compliant HIKVision cameras of 5 megapixels...

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Question is for BOTH IOS and Android phones regarding DS CAM... Presently using 2 cameras.... 1080/30 with 16x9 aspect ratio... Want to add a 3rd camera (Involves a license, I know).... Can DS CAM show 3 separate cameras? or does it show 3 cameras by displaying 4, with a blank in 4th camera...

Have a 920+ with 2 lan ports. Is there a way to hook the poe switch to the second port and Isolate it from my ISP's router? My thought is to take the load off the main network as well as to hopefully isolate the camera's from the WWW. I would still want to view the cameras via DS Cam etc. The...

A Guide to Choosing the Right IP Cameras for Your Surveillance NAS Of all the ways to make the most of a NAS in your home or business environment, few are as useful as implementing a surveillance system. Alot of people might have purchased a NAS for backup, for multimedia editing, for Plex...

I have a new Synology NAS, DS720+. I have installed Synology Surveillance Station. I have two Reolink-511W cameras If I connect either camera via cable to the router the camera functions work as in SSS as expected. When I connect via wireless on either camera it works for a short period of...

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Hello, I'm going to be installing 5 cameras around my home to use with Surveillance Station but am unsure what type of PoE switch to get. From the attachment this is how I would like it set up. Would a regular PoE switch work for the IP cameras without having bandwidth issues or do I need a...

I'm looking into setting up surveillance station to monitor some remote cameras at 2 separate building sites several miles away from my NAS as well as some cameras at home where my NAS is. All 3 sites (home, building A, Building B) have their own unique wifi networks. can surveillance station...

I'm a bit confused from reading Synology website about what I need, in terms if hardware and software, to setup and run video security. Their terminology assumes that I know what all this stuff means. I can use some help please. This is for my house, and I have a DS1517+ with plenty of storage...