Recent content by ellirion

the hisilicon sdks are actually pretty decently packaged, usually you have to fight missing files that don’t get released due to being proprietary like the technicolor modems GPL releases :banghead: Its pretty straight forward Ubuntu14.04, install build-essentials with apt and follow the...

I think it refers to “EnableSerial=0” in app/custom-config.ini So looks like repackaging firmware is still the way forward with that enabled I’ve also rebuilt the u-boot bootloader from the hi3521 sdk that has the u-boot env enabled instead of locked mostly built a shell script todo this all...

this looks pretty interesting too me, have to figure how its able to be called now.

Never mind found a pretty shitty one I took

Apologies been awol due to trying to repair pads on me board, @garbage-1 would u be able to take a image of the spi chip and area around it so I can make sure I ain’t stripped some capacitors along with the pads I’ll get back to reversing the firmware structure when I got a working board again

Yeah it is

It’s likely a variation of the hisilicon buildroot hi35xx/hi35xx-buildroot

Step after that is to reverse the update function to cross reference how the firmware is structure to create our own custom firmware that anyone can flash from a USB through the normal update system

MX25L12835FZ2I

Nah uart is locked out same as the uboot environment

Yeah the problem are the crc checks that have to be updated for it to be valid

I managed to pickup a spare 4575 so I’m currently in the process of dumping the flash from the board, the firmwares aren’t signed so if I can workout how to repackage the firmwares hopefully I’ll be able to provide a redline firmware in English. Not sure if anyone else has any tools todo this...

Sorry for digging up an old topic, my self have a swann dvr DVR8-4575 and have found the provided firmware/software basically useless with the motion alerts, thought id detail some of the information ive found i had the same lack of response from raysharp so started to look into the firmware...