Synology Surveillance Station CLI

Manage “Home Mode” status, toggle camera enabled/disabled state, and list the available cameras.

How it works:

> ./synology-ss.py home_mode
Home mode is off.

> ./synology-ss.py home_mode on
Home mode has been turned on.

> ./synology-ss.py camera 1 on
Camera 1 has been enabled.

> ./synology-ss.py cameras
ID   Camera         IP             State          Resolution
---  ------------   ------------   ------------   ------------
1    camera-2       10.0.1.60      enabled        1280x720
2    camera-1       10.0.1.59      enabled        1280x720
3    raspberry-pi   10.0.1.58      disabled       800x600

That’s it!

Configuring

Make sure you have a config.json file in the same directory as the script. A config-template.json is included in the repo:

{
  "username": "admin",
  "password": "",
  "url": "https://your-synology-nas.com:5001"
}

Debugging

If something isn’t working out, pass the --debug option to see what’s going on.