Thank you, thank you, thank you. Wow I am getting dyslectic in my older age. I even went back to someone who originally told me about the new version and I got the numbers backwards. Thank you for that catch, corrected the 101.
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It is great that the EZVIZ Alexa Skill works on your DB1 with the Hikvision firmware. But the big question is; Does Alexa work on a Hikvision DB with the EZVIZ skill?
@Pilot04 did some testing on this with his
RCA DB and even though the LaView firmware was loaded on his RCA, the LaView Alexa Skill did not work. If I remember right he also tried the EZVIZ firmware and EZVIZ Skill, same thing. So this sounds crazy, but we linked it to hardware not the firmware in that if you own a LaView or EZVIZ DB, the Alexa Skills work because each company must have a way to check their serial numbers of their DBs.
We even both tried this with Google; we both linked our LaView and RCA DBs to Google and loaded EZVIZ firmware (Which EZVIZ DB works on Alexa and Google) hoping to get Google to work and neither of our DBs worked. So i will send a message out to Hikvision DB owners to see if any had success in natively getting Alexa or Google to work.
Thank You for all your input and help, so glad we did not lose you to a bricked DB...I am with pete_c, never liked updating firmware via WiFi, but yet all my IoT devices do it now a days, it really is up to how a reset can recover a device.
David