Binding Request: Synology Surveillance Station

[Pavion]

Hello together.

New version has been released introducing Home Mode (@NoTechi, @grouchal), increased timeout, better error handling and logging.

nibi79/synologysurveillancestation

Feedback is appreciated!
Pav

[sjef86 (Christian)]

First, I must thank you for this great binding. I’ve been using it for 5 days now, and it has worked flawlessly! I really appreciate this binding.

Just wondered if it would be possible to send the image item from a synology camera to a chromecast? Was thinking of saving the image item to file, under /etc/openhab2/html/image.jpg. Then in a rule send this image to Chromecast. I know how to send to chromecast:

sendCommand(Chromecast_play_uri, "/openhabian:8080/static/image.jpg")

But how do I save the image from Item and not the camera url, to local folder on rpi?

best regards
chris

[Pavion]

Thank you for your feedback!

I don’t have a Chromecast and can’t test it but I don’t think that saving a snapshot to disk and providing its URL is a good idea (disk writes, latency).

I can imagine following solutions:

• without my binding, timer in the rule: php script running on your DS is your uri (no overhead, PM for more details)
• with my binding, timer in the rule: I could provide an STRING uri pointing at the actual snapshot, which is constant (upon login), Chromecast must be called with rule timer
• with my binding, timer in the binding: with the refresh rate of events I could provide a non-constant URI pointing at the last snapshot, thus triggering STRING channel and then rule

Please consider this options and create a GitHub issue or reply.
wbr Pav

[bones79 (Y18pXjwbo1ocdnRs8QIZ)]

Hello and thank you for the bindng.
The image item is working perfect now.

But i’ve got problems with my PTZ-Cam. The movement commands seem to repeat or something. When i trigger an “UP” command, the camera moves up until the top-border. When i do the same in Surveillance Station it moves just a little step.

[martonsz (Marton Szalay)]

Hi @Pavion,

Awesome job, thanks.
Are you planning to create a pull request, and have it included with OH?

Thanks,
Marton

[Pavion]

Hi Marton!

please be assured that I am planning it. But I’m actually not happy with the update process of a merged binding, as you can see in this thread:

Update merged binding

Hello fellow developers! I’m working on a binding and still have some testing to be done, but I’d like to know how I’m to proceed. If I think I’ve reached some stable state I could integrate my binding in openhab2-addons and make a pull request? If it’s approved, would my binding be available in the current (2.2) or would it be distributed with next release first? After that, if I want to make changes or add new features, could I update my binding automatically (or from within PaperUI) or woul…

So as long as I’m working mostly alone and have but few testers a JAR distribution is a faster and easier way for me and I frankly don’t know why I should hurry with merging.

Thanks for your feedback!
Pav

[waspie (scott dee)]

I can’t get this binding to work, and I definitely want it to.
224 | Installed | 80 | 2.2.0.a17 | SynologySurveillanceStation Binding

tried a17 and a20

running 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT
Build #975

any ideas?

[Pavion]

Please use the latest v20, it is also the most stable. But what is your problem exactly?

[waspie (scott dee)]

I think maybe it doesn’t start because my openhab runs on my Synology. Port conflict maybe?

[Pavion]

The binding itself doesn’t need a port and my installation runs on my DS too. Have you tried bundle:start or bundle:status? Do you see something uncommon in your log? You can try to increase binding’s log level:

log:set DEBUG org.openhab.binding.synologysurveillancestation

… and restart openHAB. If you find something, please create an issue on GitHub if possible or write a PM.

[waspie (scott dee)]

I’ll try that in a bit. Thank you for the tip

[waspie (scott dee)]

looks like im missing some things
Error executing command: Error executing command on bundles:
Error starting bundle 224: Could not resolve module: org.openhab.binding.synologysurveillancestation [224]
Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.eclipse.jdt.annotation; resolution:="optional"
Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.eclipse.smarthome.config.discovery.mdns

[mrwee (Rune)]

This is very nice indeed. I’ve installed the Binding, connected to my NAS and found the camera. But how do I add it to the sitemap etc.?

[mrwee (Rune)]

Well at least I can see the snapshot in Paper UI :).
Instead of performing snapshots continuously, it could be nice if that could be disabled, and snapshots could be generated when needed in e.g. a rule.

[Pavion]

Hi Rune! You can disable automatic snapshot refresh in the Camera configuration (by setting snapshot refresh to 0) and use a rule to send a REFRESH command to the snapshot item.

[mrwee (Rune)]

Brilliant!
Was it possible to add some examples of how to add a camera in a sitemap and e.g. use this REFRESH in a rule? I can’t figure out how it works

[Pavion]

@mrwee: Please check the newest release a21. In release notes there is a short guide for a sitemap configuration using new String channel “snapshot URI”.

@sjef86 Thank you for your idea now being implemented

This is the only new feature of this release so everyone else don’t need to update right now.

[mrwee (Rune)]

Got it up and running. Thanks for the pointer to the release notes. Will play around with it, and see if I can come up with the rule for manual refresh

[Pavion]

Why would you need an additional rule?

[waspie (scott dee)]

after a long and painful upgrade to 2.2.0 i have this working now.

I’ve got snaps showing up in the sitemap, thank you very much.

edit
holy cow does this spam the event log or what?