Surveillance Device License Pack


Synology Surveillance Device License Packs are designed for increasing cameras, I/O modules, intercoms, get entry to controllers, IP speakers, and transaction units set up on Synology Surveillance Station. By default, you would have default licenses that come with Synology NAS/NVR; greater licenses can be bought for extra surveillance units as your commercial enterprise grows.

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Licensing Plan

Synology NAS/NVR comes with default licenses1 that permit you to set up and manipulate surveillance devices. Synology additionally affords three alternatives for extra bought licenses: 1, four or eight Surveillance Device License Packs; every comes with a single license key, permitting you to spark off 1, four or eight surveillance units at a time.


To discover out the most variety of surveillance gadgets supported on every Synology NAS/NVR, please refer to the specs of every model.

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License Units


Under most circumstances, every IP camera, I/O module, IP speaker, intercom, and get entry to controller will solely require one license, whilst every transaction system will require two licenses. However, multi-lens cameras and video servers for analog cameras may also require extra licenses. For greater important points about supported cameras and surveillance devices, please refer to the Camera Support List and Surveillance Device Support List.


In the desk above, you can see a specified instance of 4 exclusive digicam types. Certain panoramic cameras (e.g., Axis M3007) aiding on-camera dewarping may also furnish greater than one circulation (e.g., Quad View, Double Panorama, and Original View) at a time. Each everyday and panoramic digicam requires one license only.


There are two sorts of multi-lens cameras: constant lens and detachable lens. Most constant lens cameras presenting extra than one circulation at a time require solely one license per camera. For constant lens cameras with unbiased IP addresses or detachable lens cameras, you will want one license per channel. For example, you can add as many as three lenses to Axis Q3709-PVE, which approves you to move up to three channels. If you prefer to show all three channels in Surveillance Station, you will want three licenses. Take Axis F44 as any other example. Axis F44 (with as many as 4 lenses) approves you to move up to 5 channels, with 4 of the channels showing photos from the 4 lenses, and the fifth channel combining the view of all 4 cameras. If you desire to show all 5 channels in Surveillance Station, you will want 5 licenses accordingly.


Video servers such as Vivotek VS8801 can join to as many as eight analog cameras. In this case, you will want eight licenses accordingly. This rule additionally applies to video servers that are well matched with Surveillance Station.

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License Activation and Management

In Surveillance Station, go to Main Menu > License > then click on Add. The setup wizard will information you thru including machine licenses into Surveillance Station.


  • The wide variety of default licenses might also differ. You solely want to buy more licenses when your deployment requires extra licenses than the default ones listed below:
  1. Synology NAS: two default licenses
  2. Network Video Recorder: four default licenses
  3. Deep Learning NVR: eight default licenses
  • One license can be utilized to one Synology product at a time.
  • To set off or deactivate license keys on your Surveillance Station, please make positive you can get admission to the Internet to join to Synology’s Authorization Server. If your NAS is designed to work in an offline environment, you can use DS cam to technique the license authorization. (Learn more)
  • Purchased licenses can be migrated, whilst default license keys cannot.
  • If you have deployed Synology High Availability or a CMS failover server, there’s no want to buy more license keys for the failover server, as the licenses will be routinely migrated to the failover server when needed.