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    Recommendation for Hikvision house IP system

    why are domes not ideal while a turret is?
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    Recommendation for Hikvision house IP system

    hik 2.8 cams dome cams should be fine.
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    follow the guide on p1, you will brick your cam at the beginning but you will be able to resolve it, Took my some time but I eventually got it I have 15 more to do but I a do these in under 10 min each now thanks to all the people who invested their hard work into this.
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    Adding Audio to my Hikvision

    I have some HIK dome cams with the green connectors, I would like to add a mic to one of them, but I am reading that these mics need to be powered. Can I pass POE power from my cam into the mic?. I also noticed there aren't any mics that just plug into the green connectors, are there any mics...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    Sorry again, didn't know the TFTP updater could also fix this, thought it was only good for being used with putty. Cam is up and running sorry for so many questions!
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    It's a dome cam ds-2cd2132f-is , I have to get the mod file on my other pc, but I'm wondering what I can do with this cam now, since I'm now locked out of it. I get a language mismatch now when I try to use the gui and if i attempt to TFTP into it I get the connection refused message which...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    One more question I have many of these to update, I have a brand new cam Chinese with 5.2 on it, I updated it all went well. (at least I thought that it did) I rebooted and tried to log in and I have the Language Mismatch Error, I figured I did something wrong in the Hex editing tried to log...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    SUCCESS!!! Thank you so much for the help it was the write permissions on the PC, this computer is part of a domain and it wouldn't allow the mtdblock6 file to be transferred, then when I finally changed permissions and used tftp32 (not hikvisions) the file came through, HUGE THANKS!!
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    I'm back at it, I tried running the programs in different directories on the PC with full permissions the mtd6ro_orig does transfer over. What flags me the most is the 1st error. i see on the screen (not in the log file) the next stage is : la /dav/fixup_stage:No such file or directory. When...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    Thanks for all the advice and hard work you did helping the community out. I've read through the instructions I'm not trying to skip steps and be lazy. I'm just stuck as the mtd6ro_orig isn't being transferred into the PC, I'll try again tomorrow. If the mtd6ro_orig isn't being populated...
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    DS2CD2132-I language mismatch after upgrade to v5.4.41

    Did you ever get this to work? I'm stuck with an error *** error transferring mtd6ro_mod via tftp from the PC. **** Here is TFTP warning about "mtd6ro_orig" : So i'm stuck at # Stage 1 Can you help me please ?
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    And this is where my problem lies I can't get this file it doesn't extract. I can still communicate to 192.0.0.64 the /dav/fixup.sh always give me errors and now when I run rm /dav/fixup_stage* i get no such file or directory Will there be a point where I messed this beyond repair? I think...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    Thanks sorry for the messy post above I was about to clean it up before I saw this reply. Where do I get this mtd6 file? I didnt' get one in the downloaded files and nothing was extracted out of the camera when I ran the script.
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    I tried to do the procedure on my chinese dc-2cd2032-i I can only find ds-2cd2032-i FW (English) I assume this is the one. I used brickfixV2 but on step one 1 got this error an error my cam ip is now 192.0.0.64 my pc ip is set correctly but my logs show. *** error transferring mtd6ro_mod...
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    Grey Market Hikvisions on 5.25 and PCNVR

    ok thanks for the advice. Tried to update one of my cams through the web interface it locked up I was able to reboot it via PCNVR and it is back to normal same old FW. I may try again via PCNVR since there is an update through it but since it's grey market not sure if I want to bother, I may...
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    Grey Market Hikvisions on 5.25 and PCNVR

    OK Thanks Right now I have my UPNP turned off on my routers, I have VPN access to but I have always left the port open to the Hik PCNVR because to view was easier. I can't access the cams directly I need to view them from the NVR. I haven't found any documentation about security flaws in...
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    Grey Market Hikvisions on 5.25 and PCNVR

    If I have UPNP disabled would I still need to be concerned with my current setup?
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    Grey Market Hikvisions on 5.25 and PCNVR

    I have grey market cams many are different versions but I have about 20 of them they are on 5.25 and I have been using them with PCNVR (discontinued) I didn't open ports in the firewall except to the PCNVR software. Knowing that that this old FW is hackable I would like to update them but they...
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    Hikvision IVMS42000 Time issue PCNVR

    I have 14 Hik cams hooked up to a IVMS54200 PCNVR when I try to playback via browser or phone app the playback always jumps to an hour before the time I try to play. IE I slide the slider bar to 10:00am and the slider jumps to 9am and plays 9am, if I want to see 10am and it's 10:25am actual...
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    Hikvision NVR on a PC and access via Ivms 4500

    The version I'm using (win 7) works fine, try running it under win 7 compatibility mode or try this one. This is the version I'm using https://www.dropbox.com/s/gm642klwco9sqtz/iVMS-4200%20PCNVR%28v1.03.05.04%29.zip?dl=0
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    Hikvision NVR on a PC and access via Ivms 4500

    Yes hikvision discontinued a software called pcnvr you can still find it on the net. This software does exactly what I was hoping for. And very simple to setup. I think they wanted to sell nvrs and was thinking why give the same software out for free. It works well pretty solid never had issues...
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    swtich talk!

    Thanks for this information, this would mean my old equipment still has value! I appreciate the explanation.
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    swtich talk!

    I have a 7 camera hikvision system, each camera is set to 1028 x 720p at 10fps My recorder is a computer i5 2nd gen with 8GB ram nic is gigbyte all cams go into a POE trendnet giga 8 port POE I want to expand my system, my current poe switch is maxed I was going to use a non POE 24 port...
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    Hikvision NVR on a PC and access via Ivms 4500

    I have 6 cams, they all record to a PC using the hikvision storage server. now I want to use my andriod ap (ivsm4500) to see live footage and recorded video, but I can't configure this correctly. I'm confused I expected that my ap would contact my storage server PC and from there the ap...
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    Record Via cam setting or IVMS 4200

    6 cams all hooked to a computer to record, they all work well computer has IVMS 4200 installed. I put a 2ndary HD into the comp 3TB purple and I shared it via SMB so the cams now record to this. Here is my confusion Do I program the IVMS 4200 to do the recording or is it programmed into each...
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    How to configure to record to a pc

    I have a 6 cam system, my nvr is a PC I'm on a domain total newbie here so I'm nto sure how to set this up, no SD cards in the cams, my plan was to record to a PC. Do I configure the recording on the actual CAM menu itself or do I program the IVMS4200 to record? When I try remote payback I...
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    hikvision ds-2cd2232-i5 doesn't recognize local hard drive

    That clarifies some of my issues. I'm using an i5 as my NVR now my confusion is do i use IVR4200 to record or do I setup recording individual on the camera when i log in. ALso if I share a folder on the PC I only want a few people to see this, how to I log into the camera and specify this as...
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    hikvision ds-2cd2232-i5 doesn't recognize local hard drive

    I have the exact same issue, I installed a 2nd HD into my computer and the storage server now sees the 2nd drive. the storage server only sees the 2nd HD, I can format it configure it, but when I log into the cam itself I can't see it. The only way I can get the system to record right now is if...
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    Ip Cameras and network traffic

    I agree, my router is only going to assign a single range, unless I a second router on a managed switch then I don't see how this is doable.