Best way to integrate surveillance (Syno) to my home

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Hi,

I’m struggling to fully integrate my new Reolink E450 Lumus Pro camera into Home Assistant (HA), while keeping it primarily managed by Synology Surveillance Station (SS).

Setup details:

  • Camera added to SS via ONVIF/Reolink protocol; all recordings and event detection handled there (NAS storage).​
  • Reolink app not in use (but available if needed).
  • Synology DSM integration in HA works: Live streams visible, Home Mode toggle (on/off) functional.

Questions:

  1. Presence-based Home Mode toggle: Automation to switch SS Home Mode on when both my wife and I are home (zone.home >=2), off when no one is home? (Persons: e.g., person.uwe, person.sibylle)
  2. Motion automation: Trigger HA actions (e.g., notifications with snapshots) on SS motion events from the Reolink camera.
  3. Missing events: No event entities/sensors from SS in HA (DSM integration). Where to find/troubleshoot SS events (motion, etc.)?

HA logs show no errors for Home Mode, but Surveillance Station events missing (user permissions checked).​
Any YAML examples or config tips appreciated!
Or should I use the reolink integration?

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Not sure if this helps but, :slight_smile:
I have a SS with two Tapo camera’s and noticed that approaching them from multiple devices created congestion/handling issues (tbh not sure why at this point) so I have them centralised/connected in a go2rtc container (on the Syno) from which the stream can be used ‘wherever’, also in SS
I also use SS for detection as I want to be able to have a pre-event recording. With the detection event, I have an action-rule that triggers a webhook with HA (e.g. motion_garden) and then HA can do ‘whatever’ with that message based on conditions as which camera, time of day, day of week, etc. Sometimes I want a snapshot so be shown on a tablet, sometimes I want my tablet show the camera live stream. I used to have messages with snapshots but too often this had nothing important so it became the boy-who-cried-wolf.
I am not sure what you mean with missing events

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thanks!
the webhook solution is maybe interesting!
have to check how this works.

for the 3rd point: I read somewhere that the DSM integration should have an event entity… not in my case :frowning:

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Bandwidth

Processing

Each connection to camera requires camera to process and send image. This takes bandwidth and becomes another processing load. Cameras have 100mb max and that’s under perfect condition so bad Wifi or poor power and you get issues

Above was reason for go2rtc where camera sends image to go2rtc and all requirements for sending to other sources is handled external from camera

If SS can output rtsp restream to HA that is best. Use that to add yo HA as a camera

If you only need occasional image pulling direct from camera is fine as well.

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