synology-notifications

Receive notifcations from Synology and forward them to the notifcation service of your choice

Supported notifcation services

• Slack

Service settings

Settings are supplied by setting envrionment variables

• API_KEY: A minum of 32 character api key that Synology server needs to use to auth to this services api
• LISTEN_PORT: Default 8080. The port the service will listen on

Slack settings

• SLACK_WEBHOOK: URL for the Slack web hook

Cmd

export API_KEY='LO45UXS%amLAWJn6CwJ1koaXW&7pY9#Z'
export SLACK_WEBHOOK='https://slack.com/myWebHookUrl'
./synology-notifications
listening on port 8080

Docker

docker run -e API_KEY='LO45UXS%amLAWJn6CwJ1koaXW&7pY9#Z' -e SLACK_WEBHOOK='https://slack.com/myWebHookUrl' ryancurrah/synology-notifications:latest
listening on port 8080

Setting up Synology

1. Login to Diskstation
2. Go to Control Pannel > Notification > SMS
3. Check Enable SMS Notifcations
4. Click Add SMS Provider to create a new SMS provider which will be the synology-notifications service. (NOTE: We will not actually be using SMS)
   1. Provider Name: synology-notifications
   2. SMS URL: http://<ip address of synology-notifications service>:8080
   3. HTTP Method: POST
5. Click Add and set the Parameter to api_key and leave Value empty then click Next
6. Click Add and set the Paramater to phone_number and leave Value empty (NOTE: Synology requires this field to exist even though were not going to use it)
7. Click Add and set the Paramater to message set the Value to Hello world (Synology requires a sample value) and click Next
8. Set the type of the api_key Parameter to API Key
9. Set the type of the phone_number Parameter to Phone Number
10. Set the type of the message Parameter to Message content and click Apply
11. Select synology-notifications from the SMS service provider dropdown
12. In the API Key field paste the API Key you choose for the service and click Apply
13. Test the notifcation service by clicking Send a test SMS message