you can change the mac address in the bootloader with printenv / setenv
and about the zoom function, look for the official firmware there should be two bins, the small one is for some special partition which does the zoom.
if not the probably the HWID of your camera is wrong, you can change...
It'll only work if your camera still has a working bootloader, you'll notice that it prints text on the serial console while booting if it does.
If it doesn't have a bootloader anymore then your only chance is flashing the SPI chip directly. This is not a trivial task.
You have to identify the...
I think import/export only works with the shitty dahua plugin, try internet explorer?
I've actually just finished the FW for the HDW4631C-A yesterday for a seller on aliexpress.
He sent me a camera and paid me for it, so I guess I'll wait a bit before releasing it to the public?
I haven't been...
upgraded isn't even running on any of the newer cameras / firmware.
Has to be manually started through telnet and that is also not available on newer cams / firmware ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm happy for them to fix these issues but they've made the cameras less interesting for me since they added firmware...
>upgrade firmware
>thing that worked before doesn't anymore
Yep, definitely sounds like a software bug + bad QC from Dahua. Wouldn't be the first time anyways.
If you want to revert to an older firmware then you should/have to get a serial UART dongle like this one:
CP2102 USB 2.0 to TTL UART...
Coincidentally somebody e-mailed me today about the same topic.
Also it has been asked in this and other threads a bunch of times.
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