DSM 6.2 Surveillance Station timezones per-camera

[jann]

Does anyone know if Surveillance Station allows Time Zone settings on a per-camera basis? I live in FL and the Synology is here, but my in-laws' cameras are in California and I have them recording on my Synolgoy. The time stamps of files are 3 hours behind. I *can* write a perl script to go back and "normalize" the filenames to be the correct times by reducing the timestamp by three hours (and grab the first three hours from the day after to fix the difference), but it's an exercise I don't want to have to do if I can help it. I know I'm asking a bit, but it can't be THAT abnormal to want Surveillance Station to monitor cameras off-site, can it?

TIA
Jann

 

[Jan Janowski]

Not individually in SS that I've seen....
I have Cameras connected to SS here in NC and also in IL...
In each location, I use local NAS as time server to local camera (Point Camera settings to NAS IP for time).... Each NAS set for local time... but each NAS locks to time.nist.gov... so all NAS's are 'in sync', but with different time zones..
Each NAS saves motion detect pics locally. I've had no problems with picture retrieval. Does that help any?

A Year or so ago, I did play around with camera generating time from remote, but encountered picture time issues when Camera and NAS were not both locked together...

 

[jann]

Yes, a little. It helps all it can, I mean. I guess I'll put a "offset time" routine in my system that downloads these videos and sync's the 3 hour offset too. (I concat them into one daily movie and move them into a plex directory for security cameras so the in-laws can see their videos from the day before, etc...for shipments or when they're on vacation).

PS: Another "Jan/Jann"! Hi Jan!

Thanks!

 

[Jan Janowski]

Slightly off topic, but for a few years I also used a Raspberry PI as a time server... It worked but then time Zone offsets had to be manually added at each camera, and NAS... (I didn't know NAS had it's own time server)... Using NAS as time server (Turned on automatically when SS is loaded I believe) is the best bet....