Qnap Surveillance Station License Hack
Surveillance Station 5.0 comes with 2 or 4 free IP camera licenses. for Turbo NAS (depending on the model) and you can expand the number of channels to meet your demands by purchasing additional licenses.
2 or 4 free recording channels are available in Surveillance Station 5.0(or higher versions) with QTS 4.1 firmware (or higher versions.) Older versions of Surveillance Station and QTS provide a minimum of 1 free license. The maximum channels license depends on the model according to its hardware performance condition. Before expanding the number of channels, please check the model name and the maximum number of supported channels.
Maximum Recording ChannelsSurveillance Station 5.1: Turbo NAS ModelNumber of free IP camera channelsMax.
QNAP 1 License Activation Key for Surveillance Station Pro. Surveillance Station 5.0 comes with 2 or 4 free IP camera licenses. for Turbo NAS (depending on the model) and you can expand the number of channels to meet your demands by purchasing additional licenses. 2 or 4 free recording channels are available in Surveillance Station 5.0(or higher versions) with QTS 4.1 firmware (or higher versions.). Toscolana - Vendita online di prodotti per il benessere.
TheAncient wrote:I then had an email exchange with QNAP Technical support and was informed that if I wanted to use all 4 cameras, I would have to revert back to FW version 3.7.3. Strongly doubt - this is neither the way things are implemented, or things are packaged.Look, my key customer wanted to send out the lawyers after QNAP breaking their contracts made with buying the NAS supporting two (ARM) resp. Four (x86) camera channels.
SOLVEDSurveillance Station modify Default number of camera Sign in to follow this. There is no serial associated with this license. For me there are 2 solutions. 1) buy the camera license (edited because of legal stuff). Surveillance Station modify Default number of camera Language. English (USA) (Default).
That was the key reason QNAP reverted form the original decision - which is still in place on the TS-x69, where the NAS are sold with one channel only. TheAncient wrote:So it's not quite so easy after all. I will have to install FW3.8 (which automatically DOWNgrades me to surveillance station PRO with a single license) I will then somehow have to uninstall surveillance station PRO and re-install the original 4 license version of surveillance station NON-PRO without going back to FW 3.7.3. I am hoping that QNAP technical support will tell me how to accomplish this and I am planning to post their reply here. If the Surveillance Station Pro QPKG is in place - why ever - simply uninstall (remove) it, and go to Applications Surveillance Station and re-enable it. Exactly the same procedure reverting from the QPKG based Twonky to the firmware built-in one.
Schumaku:Turns out you are correct. (YOU tell them.)Here is the reply from QNAP technical support which I received earlier today:'.I consulted with a colleague at HQ and I also tested on some of the older NAS when upgraded from the 3.7.3 or lower and it seems that it doesn't automatically update the surveillance station to the pro version.
You must install it manually to use the Surveillance station Pro so if you didn't do it, you will still be able to use the 2-4 camera that is available. The downside to that is that, that station will never be updated again with any cameras and there will not be any more changes to it in the future. If you do already have the regular surveillance station, then you should still be able to use the cameras without the license. If you install the surveillance station pro from the QPKG then it will require you to buy the license but new cameras will be supported as we update them. Hope that helps and sorry for the miscommunication.' I will make another attempt at updating the firmware and working out the PRO vs NON-PRO issue. (Since the Non-pro version supports my cameras, installing the PRO version doesn't buy me anything anyway)I also have an additional issue I need to play with: In my installation of IE9 - for some unknown reason the display mode panel does not display.
QNAP Technical Support installed the Avant browser on my machine which does display the display mode controls. It's a bit of a 'klunky' work-around but if I have to, I suppose I can live with it. Can i just check what the current situation is.im just starting to incorporate cams on to my network now, i have two 809U RP's, using fw 3.61 (3.81 is available).at the moment ive added one cam and will be adding another 3 in the future. My current surveillance station has 4 cams on it (3 not in use).
If i upgrade the firmware, am i still going to lose 3 of the cams??? And do i need to connect 3 additional cams before upgrading to retain the functionality??I read up to page 3 but kind of lost track (i was hoping qnap would honour the specs and not remove features / change their licensing).Also - with mine, i can specify the same cam ip 4 times, to have all 4 cams showing an image - would this be good enough to retain all 4 inputs??any help would be greatedit, im using axis m1114 cameras, supported in SS non pro. From what I've read here setting up your for cameras before upgrading will allow you to keep for cameras working on surveillance station Pro after the upgrade. I do not know if it will work if you set up for cameras with the same IP address. If you are planning on getting more cameras soon if I were you I would just wait get the new cameras set up, and then upgrade.Really the only way for you to know what will work is by trying it.
Apparently there is no official answer other than buy more licenses.Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD. I'm sorry I'm maybe too direct, but Qnap's licencing policy is near-sighted in my opinion. 1 channel licence with new bought device (ie. My 869L replacing 409) is almost like demo version. This is helpful for trial but not applicable for any reasonable use, like home/office monitoring. Price of Qnap devices are above competitors, adding $55 of each additional channel is simply not fair for non professional users. Let Qnap reconsider supply their trustful customers with reasonable, for example 6 or 8 channels for Pro models and 3 or 4 channels for others.
I really felt betrayed because was planning to use this function. Simply, Qnap is going to LOOSE home users, if only the competitors will offer none or better limits. They won't earn considerably with any additional licences prices but could loose very much.Think what would be if ie. Microsoft required $10 for each application above the limited number of simultaneously executed.
They'd only spread piracy then. We do not want cracking Qnap software necessity. So basically Qnap came out with another version of their Surveillance Station Pro software that works a lot better than the old version. The problem is that Qnap decided to go to a new licensing model made to squeeze more money out of business consumers and went from fuzzily supporting 4 cameras with 1 license to supporting 1 camera per license.
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This is a pretty sleazy move but common in the storage industry. The real money is in licensing.1. You can use your old licensing model and get 4 cameras on one license if you use an old version of firmware and an old version of Surveillance Station Pro (It's crappy, good luck).2. If you want to use new Surveillance Station Pro software you will have to accept the new licensing model of 1 camera per license.Based on the fact that this new licensing went into effect last June and it's now April and it's still in effect I can only assume that it's working out for Qnap so we should consider this a dead issue and move on.
Bad PR for Qnap but I guess they don't care about people complaining in a user forum about it enough to make a change. Aslania wrote:it's working out for Qnap so we should consider this a dead issue and move onBreach of contract is not the way to go when changing licensing. And frankly, charging for something so broken and inadequate like SSPro is outright ridiculous. Let alone trying to rip off your current customers who bought the product under certain terms, not with 1 free license. Well, my advice is - if you want to use a NAS as a storage for surveillance, certainly do NOT waste a cent for any of these crappy licenses. You will be a whole lot better off using software supplied by the camera vendors.
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Aslania wrote:Based on the fact that this new licensing went into effect last June and it's now April and it's still in effect I can only assume that it's working out for Qnap so we should consider this a dead issue and move on. Nothing wrong with NEW NAS sold on new terms - questionable (if not simply illegal) of course for all the NAS in the filed sold on older terms.Let your lawyer write a nice letter - will cost you more then the N x 55 US$ unless he is in-house or you are a good customer - and I'm convinced QNAP will gracefully supply the licenses you already acquired with the product a per the specs - which can not be changed post-sale.