Official Synology Surveillance Station Camera License. Instant Delivery by E-mail 24/7. By applying the license key on the Surveillance Station software, you will be able to set up and manage more IP cameras on the network. Have DSM 6.0.2-8451 and installed surveillance station. I want to addd some extra camera licences. I use add license wizard from surveillance station, then i wrote license key, and finally aktivate by pressing button FINISH.

Licensing Plan By applying license keys on the Surveillance Station user interface, you will be able to set up and manage more surveillance devices on your Synology products. 4 or 8 Surveillance Device License Packs come with a single license key, allowing you to activate 4 or 8 surveillance devices. Most of the time, each IP camera, I/O module, and access controller will only require one license, and each transaction device will require two licenses. However, there are some cameras that have different billing methods. Please see the section below for more details.

To find out the maximum number of surveillance devices supported on each Synology product, please refer to the specifications of each model. Note: • Surveillance Station running on Virtual DSM, will not include any default device licenses.

• Default license keys cannot be migrated. • NVR is a surveillance dedicated product, the default device license of NVR216/NVR1218 is four. • Purchased licenses can be migrated. Special Billing Methods Synology Surveillance Station has different billing methods for particular cameras, such as panoramic, multi-lens cameras and video server for analog cameras.

For more details about supported cameras, please refer to. Camera Type Billing Method Example License required Regular Per camera AXIS P1347 1 Panoramic Per camera AXIS M3007 1 Multi-lens Fixed lens Per camera ArecontVision AV8185DN 1 Removable lens Per channel AXIS F44 5 Video server Per channel Vivotek VS8801 8 In the table above, you can see a detailed example of our billing methods for four different camera types. Certain panoramic cameras (e.g. Axis M3007) which support native dewarping may provide more than one stream (e.g. Quad View, Double Panorama, and Original View) at a time. Each of regular and panoramic cameras requires one license only. There are two types of multi-lens cameras, fixed lens and removable lens.

Fixed lens cameras which provide more than one stream at a time will require one license only. For removable lens cameras, Synology will charge you per channel. Take Axis F44 for example. Axis F44 (with at most four lenses) provides up to five channels of video stream. The four channels are corresponded to by the four lenses, and the fifth channel is the view of all four cameras combined.

If you wish to display all five channels in Surveillance Station, Synology will charge you for five licenses accordingly. Video servers such as Vivotek VS8801 can connect to up to eight analog cameras. In this case, Synology will charge you for eight licenses accordingly. This rule will also apply to video servers supported in Surveillance Station. License Activation and Restrictions In Surveillance Station, go to Main Menu > License > then click Add. An installation wizard will guide you through adding device licenses into Surveillance Station. Note: • The license can be applied to only one Synology product at a time.

• Online verification is required for adding or deleting device licenses. • If there are more than one Synology product under the CMS setup, the included device license can be shared among the CMS cluster. Surveillance Station Features Learn more about Surveillance Station features.

Explained what the licenses do, but the inevitable question is 'Why?' The best way I have seen it explained is that you are paying for the continued development of the Surveillance application on a scale that ranges for the use you have. If I'm Joe Average homeowner with two or three cameras, then buying my Synology NAS and having it serve as a surveillance system is a bonus. If I'm Fred Businessowner then buying ten licenses plus the hardware is compariable to purchasing a professional grade surveillance system from a vendor. An RS815 + 16 licenses is probably about $2000 without disks.

That's not terribly far off the mark for a professional grade NVR system that probably has similar functionality as the Surveillance Station software. I'm not saying I like it a whole lot, but it makes sense. You pay for what you use.

Your average user probably never buys a license. A power user with a mega system is probably cross-shopping dedicated NVR systems, and the Synology offering isn't terribly priced.

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License Activation and Restrictions In Surveillance Station, go to Main Menu > License > then click Add. An installation wizard will guide you through adding device licenses into Surveillance Station. The license key can only be applied to one Synology product, however to satisfy special requirements from users, each license key can be migrated once. Note: Online connectivity is required for license activation. License migration count is restricted to one since Surveillance Station 8.0.

If there are more than one Synology product under the CMS setup, the included device license can be shared among the CMS cluster. Learn more about CMS. So synology, how come this change hasn't been advised to end users and what about 'old' licences that had been brought before you made these changes to the terms? If Synology are going to put such heavy restrictions on the camera licences, then they need to slash the prices! Not happy at all. UPDATE Synology now limits the licence to ONE device, from the page as of. Froggergolf wrote:Thanks for sharing.

I was looking at a rs2146 and 46 more additional licenses if my trial is successful, but this makes one wonder about the support. For a point solution like that, you'll be fine and not run into licence issues, unless you plan on changing the NAS hardware on a regular basis. The SS8 changes more impact home users who may upgrade a bit more often.

Ie buy a 2 buy unit, then upgrade to a 4 bay and then a few years later to a faster unit would = blocked licence! Synology email support, while never fast, have always been very helpful and worked to resolve issues I've had over the years. This really sucks.

Our small company bought DS411 years ago and a 4 camera license. Few years ago we bought DS1513+ and transferred that license easily to the new device and bought some new licenses too. Now we bought another device (DS416play) and today I installed Surveillance Stsation 8 into it and deactivated one 4 camera license from the DS1513+ and then tried to add it into DS416play.

License got locked. *lots of swearing* Then I tried to add it back to the DS1513+ but same result. Now we have one 4 camera license that does not work at all. How in hell should we have known that trying to install it into new device locks the license for good? (And yes, the license was bought from more than valid retailer in Germany.) Pure stupidity Synology! I really hope to get good response from support. Created ticket today.

Nyknicks8 wrote:So synology does not want users to upgrade diskstations and rather have them switch to a different brand? Why does the license only migrate once? Do I get a refund for the license once I cannot use it anymore?

This is fraud. For EXISTING users who brought these licences before the SS8 licence changes. Synology has brought in 'new conditions' on existing licences without warning, without the user agreeing and without bothering to put the change in the CHANGE LOG.

These actions make it fraud in my country! I want by supporting a company the behalves like this!

Watch 'valid' owners turn to 'cracks' to get SS to work as per the licence they paid for! Nyknicks8 wrote:So synology does not want users to upgrade diskstations and rather have them switch to a different brand? Why does the license only migrate once? Do I get a refund for the license once I cannot use it anymore? This is fraud.

For EXISTING users who brought these licences before the SS8 licence changes. Synology has brought in 'new conditions' on existing licences without warning, without the user agreeing and without bothering to put the change in the CHANGE LOG. These actions make it fraud in my country! I want by supporting a company the behalves like this! Watch 'valid' owners turn to 'cracks' to get SS to work as per the licence they paid for! I've never see anything that indicates that this even applies to old licenses. Have you reached out to Synology for clarification?

I guess raging on the forums is more entertaining than doing that, though.