Recent content by maxk

Yes, exactly my point when posting this. First, it's *significantly* easier to recover than almost betting on the built-in TFTP process during a camera reboot. E.g. I saw suggestions to wait 5 or 30min after TFTP upgrade. Well, you don't need any of this, just issue a reboot command. But second...

I labeled the wires on the picture with the UART lead labels (e.g. black would go to RX on UART). But if you see no output on a first try just swap RX and TX, no harm done. And yes, if you have the bootloader then you can (almost) always recover the unit back. Almost because of situations like...

I suggest you speak for yourself or state that it's entirely your opinion. I, as quite likely many people on this and other forums, think that if a company doesn't provide proper localization to their products (regardless of where it was bought) we have a full right to customize it however we...

Sure, I've added a link to eBay in the post above. And yes, white cable is not used.

I was recently looking around the web for some instructions on how to get a serial connection to Hikvision IPC in order to bring back to life my constantly rebooting 2432 camera. And I couldn't find a clear indication on how to do this other than some suggestions that it should be possible...

Thanks. I've installed 5.2.5 on it and it's running now. Although in Chinese only. The original stock 5.2.8 image had English on it. Dunno if it's available anywhere (will ask the seller) or I'll need to revert to one of the hacking solutions posted on this forum earlier. Just didn't expect any...

I've got a new 2CD2432F that came with 5.2.8 firmware onboard and I tried to downgrade it to 5.1.6, which I have running on the other two of my IPCs and which supports my NAS storage properly. Well, after downgrade it went into constant reboot loop. It still capable of updating firmware via TFTP...

OK. I finally managed to fix this camera. All that was needed is to use a plain Windows machine. I was initially using a Mac or Windows running in a VM. None of these "exotic" configurations seemed to work for reliably but managed to screw the camera initially. So, advise to anybody doing a TFTP...

Thanks. I used this process on 2CD2332 with 5.1.6 in order to work with my Thecus NAS, which can't assign limits on a share. Without a patch camera was seeing 11TB of total and 3.5TB of free space and when "formatted" it tried to create 42(!) data folders inside a share. That process was always...

nope, no buttons on this one. :(

I have a new Hikvision DS-2CD2332-I camera that came with 5.2.0 code which didn't like to play nice with my NAS. So, I decided to downgrade it to 5.1.6 code through TFTP. It took a few reboots but the unit finally downloaded the digicap.dav file and said "system update completed" in the TFTP log...