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Installs older version of Surveillance Station and Advanced Media Extensions so motion detection and HEVC playback are supported.
This script installs Surveillance Station 9.2.0-11289 and Advanced Media Extensions 3.1.0-3005
- Download the latest version Source code (zip) from https://github.com/007revad/SS_Motion_Detection/releases
- Save the download zip file to a folder on the Synology.
- Unzip the zip file.
See How to run from task scheduler
How to enable SSH and login to DSM via SSH
sudo -s /volume1/scripts/ss_motion_detection.shNote: Replace /volume1/scripts/ with the path to where the script is located.
If the script won't run check the following:
- Make sure you download the zip file and unzipped it to a folder on your Synology (not on your computer).
- If the path to the script contains any spaces you need to enclose the path/scriptname in double quotes:
sudo -s "/volume1/my scripts/ss_motion_detection.sh" - Make sure you unpacked the zip or rar file that you downloaded and are trying to run the ss_motion_detection.sh file.
- Set the script file as executable:
sudo chmod +x "/volume1/scripts/ss_motion_detection.sh"
Enable HEVC decoding:
- Open Package Center > Installed.
- Click Advanced Media Extensions.
- Click on Open.
- You may need to Sign in to your Synology account
- Click on Install then OK.
- Update DSM.
- Package Center will show Advanced Media Extensions as "incompatible with your DSM".
- Run this script again.