I am following this up to say Andy from Empiretec@aliexpress gave me excellent customer support through private massage on these forums. Within a few hours of my reaching out to him, I have my camera upgraded to the latest firmware. Now all the accounts are sorted, and everything works good! The neat part is after re-upgrading from 0.7 to 0.14, the camera kept the "Dahua" logo the webpage. Before downgrading to 0.7, it had more generic looking "IPCam" logos.
On a side note and perhaps OT...
I noticed, besides the more flexible user accounts in the new firmware, that the new firmware (0.14) behaves differently with respect to ptz functions in
blue iris. The 'official' older firmware (0.7) works with the blue iris "Dahua HFW..." ptz setting, and zoom works as you'd expect; starts when you hold the button, stops when you let go. The newer firmware works with the "
Amcrest/Dahua" setting but it zooms all the way in and out when you hit the buttons, there is no in between. So the zoom in Blue Iris works better with the older firmware on the Dahua site if you are interested in operating zoom with blue iris. I'm interested in finding the custom xml commands to put in BI to regain control of the zoom. If I bugger it in BI I don't want to have to login to the cam to fix zoom.
Kev