I believe it is entirely a Synology issue. * After surveillance Station 7.1, online connectivity is required for license activation.I do not hold this person responsible for what appears to be such a high price for licensing. An installation wizard will guide you through adding camera licenses into Surveillance Station. In Surveillance Station, go to Management > License > then click Add. This rule will also apply to video servers supported in Surveillance Station.

In this case, Synology will charge you for eight licenses accordingly. Video servers such as Vivotek VS8801 can connect to up to eight analog cameras.

If you wish to display all five channels in Surveillance Station, Synology will charge you for five licenses accordingly. The four channels are corresponded to by the four lens, and the fifth channel is the view of all four cameras combined. Axis F44 (with at most four lens) provides up to five channels of video stream. For removable lens cameras, Synology will charge you per channel. Fixed lens cameras which provide more than one stream at a time will require one license only. There are two types of multi-lens cameras, fixed lens and removable lens. Each of regular and panoramic cameras requires one license only. Quad View, Double Panorama, and Original View) at a time. Axis M3007) which support native dewarping may provide more than one stream (e.g. In the table above, you can see a detailed example of our billing methods for four different camera types. Synology Surveillance Station has different billing methods for particular cameras, such as panoramic, multi-lens cameras and video server for analog cameras. To find out the maximum number of IP cams supported on each DiskStation, please refer to the specifications of each model. By applying the license key on the Surveillance Station user interface, you will be able to set up and manage more cameras on the network. By default, two camera licenses are installed. Synology Camera License Packs are designed for expanding cameras setup on the Synology Surveillance Station. The Synology one-camera license pack allows you to add one camera to the Synology Surveillance station.

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