Ever had a camera or NVR's update which improved things?

toastie

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I recently updated (for yet another time) the firmware on my Hikvision NVR, because there was an update available I suppose. I've no idea if my Dahua or Hikvision cameras would benefit from an update, but I went ahead anyway. As before I found nothing different. The Hikvision NVR features available on their higher end NVRs aren't coming my way from any updates soon. I'd like better event tags on playback and better than no Zero channel configuration. (My cctv system and BI awaits another house painter.)

Might I suggest a IPCT sticky which the very small number of Esteemed and Knowledgeable folk on IPCT identified a manufacturer’s meaningful NVR or camera firmware update, which we should all here be aware of and why it's important?
 

john-ipvm

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We just tested Hikvision DeepinView and their analytics improved substantially from the firmware version that shipped in production and the latest one they gave us. This is not typical since few Hikvision products being used right now have deep learning but that is one example.
 

tigerwillow1

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I've made 2 Dahua updates that were positive:
1) On the 2mp starlights, to a version that auto switches between day and night exposure settings.
2) On the 4mp chinese cameras, to the international firmware hacked to run on the chinese cameras. (Replacing chinese market firmware hacked to talk english).

On the other hand, going to the newest smartPss introduced a new major bug and I reverted to what I had previously.

Overall, I'm pretty cautious because it's so common for new versions to break things that previously worked.
 

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If you are not having any issues, you likely wont notice the fixes. The recent dahua/hik firmware that allows viewing the feed without a plugin is a great example of an improvement.
 
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