Synology surveillance station get MJPEG Streaming path for smarthome

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Many smarthome solutions only integrate with MJPEG, not with RTSP. If you have a surveillance station you can use that to "convert" RTSP to MJPEG. One example would be Loxone (https://www.loxone.com/dede/).

Many people don't know this, but while streams can only be shared as RTSP in the GUI of surveillance station, there's a way we can share the stream as MJPEG when using the API.

Login to Synology surveillance station. Then use these links in the browser to get the MJPEG path:

List cameras:
http://synology/webapi/entry.cgi?privCamType=3&version=%228%22&blIncludeDeletedCam=true&streamInfo=true&blPrivilege=false&start=1&api=%22SYNO.SurveillanceStation.Camera%22&limit=2&basic=true&blFromCamList=true&camStm=1&method=%22List%22


Use the retrieved ID to get the stream path
http://synology/webapi/entry.cgi?api=%22SYNO.SurveillanceStation.Camera%22&method=%22GetLiveViewPath%22&version=9&idList=5

Streamingpath looks like this:
http://synology/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.Stream.VideoStreaming&version=1&method=Stream&format=mjpeg&cameraId=5&StmKey=%22d5658f0c5b8b8404e21565g6aafba8edf%22