![]() Synology says 'thanks for the update, please stop sending me 1080p video' and it stops writing to HDD. Several seconds later camera says 'I used to detect motion but am no longer detecting motion'. Synology says 'great, start sending me 1080p video please' and then starts recording that to HDD. Then someone walks into the motion detection area, camera says 'hey Synology you wanted to know if motion is detected, well there's motion being detected!'. Synology will say 'I detect you as a camera, here is your motion detection zone, please alert me when motion is detected'. Let's say the camera has onboard motion detection. This is possible, but it still works with a 'pull'. I expected to be able to have Surveillance Station only receive video from the cameras when motion is detected. You can DIY a solar setup for a WiFi camera, using a solar panel, MPPT charge controller, 12v alarm style battery, and waterproof enclosure. ![]() Thus the whole operation mode of battery powered cams is mostly incompatible with Surveillance Station. Video is 'pulled' from Synology, not 'pushed' from the camera. The video is then started and runs continually. The camera exists there, Surveillance Station makes a connection to the camera and requests a video stream start. That's the only way it's able to get useful battery life- even maintaining a WiFi radio connection with no data transfer would burn through a battery in a week or two, and running the camera, image processing, video encoding, etc constantly would blow through the battery even faster. When motion stops the whole camera goes back to sleep again. When the motion sensor detects motion, it wakes up the camera and WiFi radio, to start streaming video to the cloud. They have a PIR motion sensor (which uses very little power), most of the time the camera and WiFi radio (which both use a lot of power) are asleep. The battery powered cameras don't record 24/7. I need cameras that have a built-in battery due to where they'll be placed. They don't want to support Synology, they want to make sure the only way you can store video with them is through their paid cloud service. These cameras are all tightly cloud integrated. All the big consumer brands (Arlo, Nest, Blink, etc) don't appear to be supported by Surveillance Station.
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