Upgrade to 0.55.0 Synology camera not working anymore

Installation
1

As title says and this is in the log:

2017-10-08 18:47:55 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.camera] Error while setting up platform synology
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py", line 164, in _async_setup_platform
    SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT, loop=self.hass.loop)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/tasks.py", line 372, in wait_for
    return fut.result()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/futures.py", line 277, in result
    raise self._exception
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/tasks.py", line 237, in _step
    result = next(coro)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/coroutines.py", line 141, in coro
    res = func(*args, **kw)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/camera/synology.py", line 54, in async_setup_platform
    timeout=timeout
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/synology/surveillance_station.py", line 9, in __init__
    self._api = Api(url, username, password, timeout, verify_ssl)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/synology/api.py", line 56, in __init__
    self._initialize_api_info()
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/synology/api.py", line 66, in _initialize_api_info
    response = self._get_json(self._base_url + 'query.cgi', payload)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/synology/api.py", line 189, in _get_json
    content = json.loads(response.content)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads
    s.__class__.__name__))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'
2

Same issue here:

2017-10-08 17:47:53 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.camera.synology] Error when initializing SurveillanceStation
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/app/homeassistant/components/camera/synology.py", line 54, in async_setup_platform
    timeout=timeout
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/synology/surveillance_station.py", line 9, in __init__
    self._api = Api(url, username, password, timeout, verify_ssl)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/synology/api.py", line 57, in __init__
    self._initialize_api_sid()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/synology/api.py", line 83, in _initialize_api_sid
    response = self._get_json(api['url'], payload)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/synology/api.py", line 192, in _get_json
    raise ValueError('Invalid or failed response', content)
ValueError: ('Invalid or failed response', {'error': {'code': 400}, 'success': False})
3

I suspect its down to #9583 maybe @snjoetw can help.

Im going to try some different configurations and see if I can “make” it work.

4

Hey guys yes it’s due to my change, sorry about that. It should be fixed in 0.55.1. In the mean time, you can upgrade to python 0.36 as a workaround

5

Or add a custom_component with the fix till 0.55.1 is released.

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6

@arsaboo Is there a custom_component available as a temp fix for this until 55.1/56.0?

If so, can you please provide your fix, cheers.

7

Just add this synology.py file to custom_components/camera/

8

@arsaboo perfect, working again as normal.

Many thanks.

9

Hi @snjoetw, can you please include in the “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/synology/surveillance_station.py” the settings for motion detection by camera as well, at the moment is disabled or by surveillance station. Thanks a lot

10

Can you elaborate a bit? What kind of settings do you want to expose?

Right now you can already enable/disable motion detection from HASS for Synology cameras

11

Hi, thanks for getting back to me.
In the surveillance_station.pyfile you can import from api.py the “MOTION_DETECTION_SOURCE_BY_CAMERA” at line 1
and at the end of the file add
" def motion_detection_camera(self, camera_id):
“”“Disable motion detection for camera matching camera_id.”""
self._api.camera_event_md_param_save(
camera_id,
source=MOTION_DETECTION_SOURCE_BY_CAMERA)"

To avoid confusion, at line 44 change “enable_motion_detection” to “motion_detection_surveilance”.
the result will have 3 services:
“motion_detection_surveilance”
“disable_motion_detection”
“motion_detection_camera”

Thanks

12

I am on hass/1.2.1 and Synology/DSM 6.1.5-15254

The error I got is

requests.exceptions.InvalidSchema: No connection adapters were found for ‘192.168.1.8:5000/webapi/query.cgi’

what have I done wrong?