Synology Surveillance station

joel_dj · June 11, 2019, 9:27pm

Hi everyone,

I'm thinking of moving from blue iris to running everything in this nas (1019+). Just wondering if anyone has hooked up hubitat to toggle armed/disarmed status of surveillance station?

thank you

Joel

JasonJoel · June 16, 2019, 7:05pm

You should be able to do this with Action Rules in surveillance station. So basically, create two action rules (one for Home Mode ON, and one for OFF) with an EXTERNAL DEVICE event. Action would be to enter or leave Home Mode.

Then have an RM rule, or an app, or driver with HTTP capability (there are a few custom drivers that do this) to send the HTTP command listed in the action rule to surveillance station.

The http commands look something like:
http://{NasIP}:5000/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.ExternalEvent&method="Trigger"&version=1&eventId=1&eventName="This is external event1"&account="{account}"&password="{password}"

Obviously you change {NasIP}, {account}, and {password} to match your ip/account settings.

It would be better to send it via HTTPS, but the easiest way is to send it to the HTTP port on the NAS (assuming you have it open).

JasonJoel · June 19, 2019, 11:14pm

I actually set this up this week. Works fine.

I made a virtual device, and used this user driver:

github.com

hubitat/HubitatPublic/blob/master/examples/drivers/httpGetSwitch.groovy

/*
 * Http GET Switch
 *
 * Calls URIs with HTTP GET for switch on or off
 * 
 */
metadata {
    definition(name: "Http GET Switch", namespace: "community", author: "Community", importUrl: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hubitat/HubitatPublic/master/examples/drivers/httpGetSwitch.groovy") {
        capability "Actuator"
        capability "Switch"
        capability "Sensor"
    }
}

preferences {
    section("URIs") {
        input "onURI", "text", title: "On URI", required: false
        input "offURI", "text", title: "Off URI", required: false
        input name: "logEnable", type: "bool", title: "Enable debug logging", defaultValue: true
    }

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Then ON URL looks like this (with IP, user, and password changed :). As expected I had to replace spaces with %20 and quotation marks with %22:

http://192.X.X.X:5000/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.ExternalEvent&method="Trigger"&version=1&eventId=1&eventName="This%20is%20external%20event1"&account="Account"&password="Password"

joel_dj · June 19, 2019, 11:35pm

thanks so much for sharing!

dJOS · November 22, 2020, 9:18am

I found this today (going to have a play tomorrow):

dJOS · November 24, 2020, 11:50pm

Btw, I couldn't get the above driver to talk to my NAS.

dJOS · November 25, 2020, 2:11am

Cheers, this works great for me.

joel_dj · October 15, 2021, 1:22am

I've set this up but using the local lan ip address to call it via hubitat is not going through but if i run the command in browser it works. I do have to click continue as it says it's not secure so maybe hubitat is getting caught?

it's a send get command is that right? https://192.168.1.xx:xxxx/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.Webhook&method="Incoming"&version=1&token=xxxxxx

dJOS · October 15, 2021, 1:49am

What version of DSM are you running?

joel_dj · October 15, 2021, 2:01am

version 6.2.4 - havn't updated to 7 as i'm not sure if it will kill my docker containers

joel_dj · October 15, 2021, 2:14am

ok so i was using https port... used http and it's working!

dJOS · October 15, 2021, 3:15am

Sweet, I hadn't noticed that in your URL.

joel_dj · November 22, 2021, 4:12am

So it actually hasn't been working I thought it was.
. if I run it manually in the browser it works fine but habitat calling it does not work it never updates the status not really sure why

dJOS · November 22, 2021, 4:24am

I found my work proxy breaks WebVPN, the workaround is to just use the Synology SSL VPN when I need access from work:

Screen Shot 2021-11-22 at 3.23.44 pm

However, I can get to all my stuff via my mobile internet connection just fine.

joel_dj · November 22, 2021, 5:04am

Thanks. Yeah it's not in any vpn at all. Could be the firewall rules perhaps.

joel_dj · November 24, 2021, 3:11am

I actually think the issue is on The HE side it's not calling the url properly
. doing it directly in the browser I get success so it's very strange

joel_dj · November 24, 2021, 3:46am

Hmm i don't understand sorry. I am using rule machine to call this URL as follows and it doesn't work. However running your rolling my browser on my work computer on LAN works fine.

Any idea what I may be doing wrong ?

dJOS · November 24, 2021, 6:32am

Oh sorry, I thought we were in the Synolgy VPN topic, I need more sleep .

I just setup a “http get switch” device like this:

And toggle it with a Basic Rule.

joel_dj · November 25, 2021, 9:50pm

ok got this going but i'm getting illegal characater does your url have "incoming" in it? http://192.168.1.xx:xxx/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.Webhook&method="Incoming"&version=1&token= like this?

dJOS · November 25, 2021, 11:27pm

Im not sure how you are getting your HTTP URL, however, the NAS generates them for you. Just go into the Action Rules (you need to create one for each mode - Home / Away) then click get command. Then all you need to do is add your credentials and paste the result into your Hubitat HTTP Device.