The reason I joined this forum was that my HIKVision DS-2032-I that I purchased on Amazon got bricked when I tried to update the firmware to V5.2.3 build141024 via the web interface.
TFTP via the network port does not seem to work properly. I used Wireshark to discover that it never goes out to port 69, but is expecting some kind of response on port 9978. Setting TFTP server to port 9978 did not help. So, the only option to recover appeared to be via the RS-232 interface. So now I have console access and can stop at either u-boot or the initial kernel/BusyBox terminal. From u-boot I can tftp load the latest firmware (named digicap.dav) from my tftpd-hpa server.
As I researched where to load the file in memory and save to flash, I discovered that there seems to be a war going on between IP camera distributors/HIVision on one side and users on the other side. Firmware seems to be region locked, and firmware updates seem to be prohibited across regions. The poor consumer knows nothing of this which can lead to the kind of problems I'm experiencing.
So it appears there are region codes embedded somewhere in flash that need to be changed to allow me to update and recover my camera. Any advise on where to gain information on region codes and u-boot tftp recovery is much appreciated.
Thanks!
Doug
TFTP via the network port does not seem to work properly. I used Wireshark to discover that it never goes out to port 69, but is expecting some kind of response on port 9978. Setting TFTP server to port 9978 did not help. So, the only option to recover appeared to be via the RS-232 interface. So now I have console access and can stop at either u-boot or the initial kernel/BusyBox terminal. From u-boot I can tftp load the latest firmware (named digicap.dav) from my tftpd-hpa server.
As I researched where to load the file in memory and save to flash, I discovered that there seems to be a war going on between IP camera distributors/HIVision on one side and users on the other side. Firmware seems to be region locked, and firmware updates seem to be prohibited across regions. The poor consumer knows nothing of this which can lead to the kind of problems I'm experiencing.
So it appears there are region codes embedded somewhere in flash that need to be changed to allow me to update and recover my camera. Any advise on where to gain information on region codes and u-boot tftp recovery is much appreciated.
Thanks!
Doug