Tag: Surveillance station

Add Smartwares CIP-37210AT IP camera in Surveillance Station

I managed to add the Smartwares CIP-37210ET IP camera, which I got from the Action store, in Synology Surveillance Station. I will explain how I did it below.

First install your camera with the HomeWizard Cameras app from smartwares.eu.
Write down the camera password you created at the end of the wizard.

Next thing to do is assign a fixed IP address to the camera. The software of the camera doesn’t support that, so you need to do that in your internet router.

Once you have done that, open Surveillance Station and add a camera and choose quick installation

Then choose in the brand selection screen the option defined by user

In the path you need to enter the url for the stream using the camera password you created during the wizard in the app on your phone

rtsp://admin:PASSWORD@IP:554/live/av0?

PASSWORD: password you created
IP: the fixed IP you assigned to your camera

The link you have to enter is the above text except for the rtsp://

admin:abcde12345@192.168.0.240:554/live/av0?

Now you can test the connection and if everything is done right, you should see the video stream.

Synology Surveillance Station Home Mode Automation with Home Assistant

I have found a guide on the www, but it was not that 100% clear and I had to google a lot of things to be clear. But I got it 100% functional and will publish an updated guide here.

This is the url for the original guide: https://www.paolotagliaferri.com/home-automation-home-assistant-docker-synology/

Some prerequisites:

  • Docker
  • Home Assistant
  • Surveillance Station
  • Unifi network or similar that can be integrated in Home assistant

First:

Find the entity identifier of your mobile phone that is used by the Ubiquiti UniFi integration

Create a group where the entity that represents you in your configuration.yaml

Next:

Then on the Synology Surveillance Station, I generated two actions in the Action Rule section to create webhooks that Home Assistant can use for switching the Home mode on or off

First I will create the rule to enable home mode

Here you see the webhook url we will use in the secrets.yaml later on

Now you have create the rule to enable the Home mode in surveillance station. Next will be the disable Home mode rule

Here you see the webhook url we will use in the secrets.yaml later on

When you have followed all steps, this will be the result

Now we are going to define 2 variables for the webhooks in the secrets.yaml file. These variables will be used in the configuration.yaml later.

When that is done, we can go back to the configurations.yaml to define the webhooks so they can be used for automation

Finally – I defined the automation in the UI (or in the configurations.yaml file) – here’s the generated configuration

Last thing to do is to check the configuration for errors and if that passes, you can restart the Home Assistant server.

Now the moment you go out of range of your wifi, Synology Surveillance station will go out of home mode and vica versa. Keep in mind that the standard delay the Ubiquiti UniFi integration uses for switching from home to not home is 300 seconds.