Recent content by tdb

yup. They're white box so unbranded with no mention of hik. They lag a little behind, but it's nice to just go pickup a camera in stock and not have to wait.

If you don't mind them being the unbranded ones, infinite cables in Markham sells hik cameras. I've swapped the firmware on all the ones I got from them to the OEM firmware with no issues.

Tagging these two posts because they asked about 3d printing a bracket, but there is a 30 degree one on thingiverse using the same design as the original... I know it doesn't quite answer either, but since it wasn't mentioned I figured I'd add it to the knowledge base lol. It isn't quite the...

By this you mean using the serial console port to download the new firmware in the boot process?

no it's not hard coded to listen, but without knowing how to see the magic packet it's hard to tell where to be. the issue with the hik tftp was apparently image file size or something? I just ditched it for a linux machine in my environment anyway.

Maybe something else was already on the 64 ip? in any case the important thing is it worked :) . Knowing how to find the magic packet request makes everything a lot easier since obviously the ip can be different. A large part of my reason for commenting was to make sure that it will come up...

The TFTP tool listed is ancient, I couldn't get it to work and it turns out the instructions are wrong with newer cameras (or at least my variation lol). I literally just did this process to update a white box G1 camera and still have all my windows open so the following is based on that for...