While visiting in China two months ago I purchased this camera at ~$45. It's a 4MP Turret and only speaks Chinese.
There are several annoying things that makes "Google Translate" operation challenging:
1. Although there is an option to change Timezones and NTP servers, it doesn't seem to "stick" and in fact setting it to a US timezone appears to scramble the time a little randomly.
2. I don't see an option to enable Telnet or SSH unless use an Inspector on the browser and change the class "item ng-hide" to class "item ng". Unfortunately, I cannot get it to keep SSH/Telnet enabled.
3. Using iVMS-4200 looks promising (when downloaded from Euro with the Chinese/English language options) and seems to remember settings when switching language but can only manipulate the cameras in Chinese... (and there's no google translate!)
I'd be happy to get started just by enabling SSH and figuring out how to backup the camera firmware and/or recover from any 'brick' mode to allow some play of firmware. I alternately am trying to research if iVMS-4200 could be hacked to allow English use of a Chinese camera so I don't have to worry about changing any camera firmware.
How does one access updated Chinese firmware on the Hikvision China page?
There are several annoying things that makes "Google Translate" operation challenging:
1. Although there is an option to change Timezones and NTP servers, it doesn't seem to "stick" and in fact setting it to a US timezone appears to scramble the time a little randomly.
2. I don't see an option to enable Telnet or SSH unless use an Inspector on the browser and change the class "item ng-hide" to class "item ng". Unfortunately, I cannot get it to keep SSH/Telnet enabled.
3. Using iVMS-4200 looks promising (when downloaded from Euro with the Chinese/English language options) and seems to remember settings when switching language but can only manipulate the cameras in Chinese... (and there's no google translate!)
I'd be happy to get started just by enabling SSH and figuring out how to backup the camera firmware and/or recover from any 'brick' mode to allow some play of firmware. I alternately am trying to research if iVMS-4200 could be hacked to allow English use of a Chinese camera so I don't have to worry about changing any camera firmware.
How does one access updated Chinese firmware on the Hikvision China page?