I agree, it's a lousy solution, especially when it means the cameras are out for a mininum of thirty minutes every night. But for sub-$10, it's the quickest fix. Unless HeroSpeed eventually works out whatever in their firmware is failing, anyway.
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nayr
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30mins!? damn dude, at least buy a cheap digital timer.. you can set those to 1min intervals unlike those big old dial timers.
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FYI You can set the camera to reboot every hour or even less (at least in the latest firmware)...not a solution to this crap though..
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LMAO! literally... "Damn Dude...."
The firmware is no longer on the HeroSpeed website. I'll assume this means they are done supporting it. Too bad for us.
alastairstevenson
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I wouldn't read too much into the state of the downloads on the Herospeed website - it's never been up to date and doesn't cover all products.
But on the other hand - things do move on.
Hopefully it's because they found (the) critical issue(s) and took it down. Maybe a fix is incoming.
...I know, wishful thinking.
alastairstevenson
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It seems I'm just lucky in that I have had a couple of Longse cameras up for the best part of a year, with zero problems, though I did leave the monthly reboot active.
It might be worth a quick look at the error counts on the network interface - a small proportion of dropped packets are no big deal, but other errors may be indicative of some network issues.
Example from S500 :
It might be worth a quick look at the error counts on the network interface - a small proportion of dropped packets are no big deal, but other errors may be indicative of some network issues.
Example from S500 :
Code:
alastair@PC-I5 ~ $ telnet 192.168.254.16
Trying 192.168.254.16...
Connected to 192.168.254.16.
Escape character is '^]'.
(none) login: root
Password:
Welcome to HiLinux.
None of nfsroot found in cmdline.
~ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:1B:06:B2:F3
inet addr:192.168.254.16 Bcast:192.168.254.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:444809399 errors:0 dropped:18 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:225015994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3777527842 (3.5 GiB) TX bytes:2234339851 (2.0 GiB)
Interrupt:57
~ # free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 59552 58032 1520 0 0
-/+ buffers: 58032 1520
Swap: 0 0 0
~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 12.0M 10.9M 1.1M 91% /
tmpfs 29.1M 4.0K 29.1M 0% /dev
tmpfs 29.1M 8.0K 29.1M 0% /tmp
~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type jffs2 (rw,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
~ #There's actually a newer 7.x release available on their website, but it seems Google won't find it.
When I return home tonight, I'll post the ZIP file here.Found the page on their site.
http://www.herospeed.net/en/ver/IPC/His/3516A_IMX178_W_7.1.3.3.zip
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alastairstevenson
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Many thanks. And for sharing.
I wonder what the changes are? Apart from another root password to extract.
I wonder what the changes are? Apart from another root password to extract.
I'm curious though how you did that - I know the site responds differently on IE and Firefox - but with either I can't see the download.
Q™
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+1 here. Four Longse cameras. Zero problems. I guess I'm lucky also.
alastairstevenson
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If anyone is curious about the contents of this firmware, this (crude) shell script will unpack it.
*edit* Fixed an arithmetic error for extract_2.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# This script unpacks the contents of the Longse 3516A_IMX178_W_7.1.3.3.fls firmware file.
# The offsets will be specific to that version of firmware. There is no attempt to
# use logic or error trapping to make it universal - it's as much a memory-jogger as anything.
#
dd bs=1 if=3516A_IMX178_W_7.1.3.3.fls of=extract_0.hdr count=24
dd bs=1 if=3516A_IMX178_W_7.1.3.3.fls of=extract_1.txt skip=24 count=4276
#
# Now for an ELF program.
dd bs=1 if=3516A_IMX178_W_7.1.3.3.fls of=extract_2 skip=4300 count=232083
# And another one.
dd bs=1 if=3516A_IMX178_W_7.1.3.3.fls of=extract_3 skip=236383 count=12429
# And another one.
dd bs=1 if=3516A_IMX178_W_7.1.3.3.fls of=extract_4 skip=248803 count=27964
# And a gzipped tar archive section.
dd bs=1 if=3516A_IMX178_W_7.1.3.3.fls of=extract_5.gz skip=276767
# Extract what's in the gzip file. It does comment on trailing garbage.
# Should ideally check if it's significant.
gunzip -k extract_5.gz
#
# The result is a tar archive
mv extract_5 extract_5.tar
[ ! -d extract_5 ] && mkdir extract_5
cd extract_5
# which then extracts to a large /app folder tree.
tar -xvf ../extract_5.tar
cd ..
#
# And that's the lot!
#
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You're very welcome! I just found it Saturday afternoon, while searching for 3516A and IMX178. They put the word "Download" all over the page, but there's only one of them that actually presents a hyperlink.
I used DuckDuckGo to search for "3516A_IMX178 firmware download" and it turned up as the first result. I'm using Firefox.
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Q™
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Have you applied it to a camera yet @VorlonFrog?
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Mine will stay the way it is as I have had zero problems. If it aint broke dont fix it.There's actually a newer 7.x release available on their website, but it seems Google won't find it.
Found the page on their site.
http://www.herospeed.net/en/ver/IPC/His/3516A_IMX178_W_7.1.3.3.zip
Q™
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I dunno about that bro. You could be missing out on some major improvements!