DS cam

Synology Inc.

About this app

You must own a Synology NAS to run this app, and be running the latest Surveillance Station 9.1.0 to get the complete set of features*

DS cam makes it possible to monitor and receive alert notifications from all your surveillance cameras set up on a Synology DiskStation. Smart features such as PTZ, patrols or lens control allow for perfect control of your cameras in real-time, while advanced filters make it easy to pinpoint any specific event from large lists of recordings. You can even perform all essential management tasks, from disabling a camera to unlocking and deleting a snapshot.

Find all detailed features about the app on our website:
www.synology.com > Solutions > Surveillance > Surveillance Mobile > Specifications
https://www.synology.com/dsm/7.1/software_spec/surveillance_station

Ratings and reviews

This app can continue to stream video and use data when the app is not in focus or your screen is off, quickly draining mobile data. I've reported this to the developer 6 months ago and they said to just manually close the app after it's used. They apparently don't care since it's been 6 months with no fix. Keeps happening to me. No way in app settings to get this to stop.

App works ok. Biggest gripe is no real call notification that you can answer showing up when someone rings the doorbell. There is one for the desktop when logged into dsm. But nothing for mobile that i have seen. Just a little small banner notification that someone rang the doorbell at some point that is easily missed if not paying attention. Also would be nice to be able to download clips of recordings from the mobile app without having to go to the desktop. Outside of these it works well.

The app works ok. I can see my camera and access recordings. Event notifications arrive quickly. Some of the notifications have full width previews which are great, but not all of them. This might have something to do with the second issue I have. The app constantly has to log in, every time I open the app, it takes a few seconds to log in. My credentials are remembered and the log in is automatic,but I'm thinking that I only get image previews when logged in. Small but annoying issues.

What’s new

Fixed Issues
1. Fixed an issue where the app might crash when enabling Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode on Android 14 and above.