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    Firmware from different brands

    Hi, just like how some people chose to use hikvision instead of say swann to update their firmware when it's based on same chip/model etc. I was Wondering if it's possible to do this say between swann and ring. For example, they carry floodlight cameras, I am pretty sure they come from the same...
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    what's required to power a camera bought in USA in foreign country?

    Hi, I couldn't find answer on the forum, hope somebody could give me some answer for this. Lets say I want to sell my security camera(purchased here in USA) to somebody in foreign country(not sure which country at this point) for them to be able to use this camera in their country, would they...
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    Can't find '.sw' file!

    I am trying to flash my swann 85580 DVR through UART port. it didn't let me stop the boot with ctrl+u, but it seems like it looks for .sw file during boot from USB drive to flash the system. so, I grabbed the firmware file from swann and I put it in USB drive and start the DVR. for some reason...
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    what can i do when update command is not available

    I am trying to update firmware on my bricked(swann dvr8-4000) device via serial. here is the available command firmware file is not usual digicap file and without update command, how would i go about this? thank you firmware file...
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    unbricking through USB flash drive

    there seems to be a way to unbrick DVR through USB flash drive instead of uart connection with ttl adapter. this info below was posted on another forum. any idea how I can use this same method to flash firmware and unbrick? " it is possible to hook into the boot process before the DVR software...
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    what will this code do?

    I have this file autoexec.sh from well known cctv manufacturer and wondering what this will do if its inserted in DVR during boot here is the code in autoexec.sh himd.l 0x20050ee8 | grep "00000035 00000035" if [ $? = "0" ];then cd /mnt/usb; chmod +x update3535; ./update3535 0 all...
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    upgrading a firmware for swann DVR via serial

    I am trying to upgrade firmware on my current Swann DVR using UART, my previous swann DVR gives me an option to stop the boot(ctrl+U) like this U-Boot 2010.06-svn (Nov 24 2015 - 16:37:38)[V1.2.1] *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment Hit ctrl+u to stop autoboot: 0 but my current...
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