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Chapter 16: Safeguard Your Environment with
Surveillance Station
Surveillance Station is a professional Network Video Recording (NVR) software bundled with DiskStation
Manager (DSM), allowing you to remotely record and monitor video footages from IP cameras which are paired
with your DiskStation, watch live view videos, set up scheduled recording, playback recorded events via web
browser or mobile device for remote monitoring so as to safeguard your home or office environment.
With Surveillance Station, you can set up VisualStation within LAN to live view managed cameras without the
help of a PC.
Additionally, you can download DS cam from Apple's App Store or Android Market to live view your IP cameras
and play recorded events from Surveillance Station with your iOS/Android device. For more information about DS
cam, see "Chapter 21: Communicate with Mobile Devices".
This chapter explains how to install Surveillance Station, manage IP cameras, watch and record live view videos,
set up scheduled recording, playback recorded events, and use all the other comprehensive features provided by
Surveillance Station. For more detailed instructions, please see DSM Help.
Install Surveillance Station
Go to Main Menu > Package Center to install Surveillance Station. After installation, the surveillance shared
folder will be created automatically to contain your Surveillance Station data. This shared folder is read-only and
can be accessed only by users belonging to the administrators group.