HA and Synology Surveillance Station

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I have a Synology Surveillance station setup with a few Amcrest non-AI cameras. The notification system in SS is good, but it’s time based. I receive daily “motion” alerts when outside lights turn off/on. Those lights are based on sunrise/sunset events within Home Assistant.

I would like to add a step to my HA lighting routines to temporarily disable SS email notifications when they trigger. This would help cut down on the daily emails I need to delete.

Does anyone do something similar and willing to share their yaml to help get me going?

//Brew

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I’m going to give this a try:

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I found an even better solution. There’s an amcrest integration for home assistant. I can directly enable/disable motion detection since in-camera is where I’m detecting it not surveillance station…

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You can also send the notifications through HA to your companion app: Synology - send System Notifications to Homeassistant & Companion App
Depending on your automation conditions you can let the notifications through or not.

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Still not working… even when I use the Amcrest integration and disable Motion Recording prior to turning lights on/off, my Surveillance station still captures “motion”… so I’m at a loss…

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You’ll need to look at the camera setup in surveillance station. Is it using camera events and/or doing detection on its own?

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Yes… all of the motion detection happens in-camera… what’s odd is the Amcrest integration allows me to Enable/Disable motion recording… i can confirm the “check box” in the camera goes on/off via the integration, but it seems the camera just sends the detection to Surveillance station anyway as I keep getting the alerts.

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You can interact with Survelliance Station from HA, by setting up an Action Rule that is triggered by a webhook. And then call the webhook from HA. I do this to move cameras to different preset positions from HA automations. That said, I don’t see a way to “disable events” in the action rule config; but that seems like a reasonable thing. There is a disable camera action which could work.

You may get better response by asking the question on a Synology community.

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After tons of testing, I seem to have found a simple solution to this that probably should have been obvious from the start.

In my automation to turn on/off the lights, I simply add a step to turn off/on “Home Mode” in Surveillance Station. By default Home Mode suppresses notifications.

This of course implies you add the DSM integration to HA…

//Brew