@Monocle I’ve been trying to set the up to cameras in my synology surveillance station for the better part of 6 hours, and need some guidance. I’m happy to make a $100 donation if we can get this running on our Echo Show 8. I keeping getting “Sorry camera is not responding” to voice invocations to Alexa…to ES8.

I’ve created the camera feed in my dashboard, and followed the steps for the RTSP stream from my camera on the surveillance station. The link works in VLC player just fine.

What am I missing. Is configuring camera feeds in my dashboard, the same as mentioned Monocle gateway? Or am I missing a step. Do I need to delete the cameras from devices in Alexa and unlink/relink the skill each time to test? I followed the steps to a T. It should be working .

Having a similar issue.

I have 1 RTSP cam setup on my Synology Surveillance Station.
Followed the above guide, added cam to Alexa, but I can not view cam either via Echo Show or FireTV
Also tried changing Authentication from DIGEST to BASIC.

I keeping getting “Sorry camera is not responding” when I ask Alexa to show/display cam

any fixes or advice?

I’ve created the camera feed in my dashboard, and followed the steps for the RTSP stream from my camera on the surveillance station. The link works in VLC player just fine.

What am I missing. Is configuring camera feeds in my dashboard, the same as mentioned Monocle gateway? Or am I missing a step. Do I need to delete the cameras from devices in Alexa and unlink/relink the skill each time to test? I followed the steps to a T. It should be working .

You may be right on the authentication. However, it should work with either setting. If you choose “DIGEST” we attempt DIGEST authentication first if possible and revert to BASIC if DIGEST is not available or fails. If you choose “BASIC”, we attempt BASIC authentication first unless we receive information in the request/response headers that indicate that the endpoint requires DIGEST. So this authentication setting really should work with either value, perhaps just more optimized if its set correctly.

Ås for the audio codec, maybe that depends on the actual camera stream that Synology is attached to. I’m not 100% sure, I’d have to set it up again and test. I know my cameras attached to my Synology NAS are producing AAC audio streams, but I’m not sure if Synology transcodes the audio to G711. This audio codec setting provides guidance to the Alexa devices as to which type of audio stream to expect; however, in practice I’m not sure that it matters too much as it seams Alexa will accept either one at runtime and not reject the stream outright if this setting is incorrect. It is a good idea to set it correctly if you know its wrong, because perhaps there is more at play than we realize in side the black-box that is Alexa.

Thanks, Robert