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Spookiepower, I spoke too soon. After spending the night installing, uninstalling, restarting, trying different versions, etc, etc, I can without doubt state that HIKvision's iVMS software is a clusterf@ck! HIK does nothing to support it's products. The site offers "New" downloads that are...

Spookiepower, I have 2 bald spots on my head from pulling my hair all day. I had Wireshark and WinPcap installed and, just like you this USED to work. Tonight I installed the updated version and it failed, every other reinstall of older versions failed as well. Digging into it, I found that...

Hey Alastair, Thanks for the help, cam is back up and alive. It seems there was some issue in the pigtail where the ethernet & 12v come together. When the cable transitioned from solid core to stranded, I think there was a break that was joining/separating when the camera was moved. The break...

Hey Alastair, Thanks for the info. I *sheepishly grinning* did not disconnect the molex when I was testing it, but seeing as two of the cables failed to continuity test anyhow, it must be an issue somewhere in the cable. Let's hope it was just a screw up and the RJ45 end. Once I get it done...

Here is an image representing how the wires are connected from the Hik camera's pigtail and the molex plug inside the camera. Dropbox - Hik plug.jpg (I couldn't figure out how to upload an image, so here's a link to dropbox) Hope this helps. Cheers Note: wire colors on the image mean nothing...

Thanks Alastair, My cables are always done to the T568B standard. I was actually trying to find out on the Hik camera which pin on the RJ45 plug was wired to which pin on the molex. It seems odd that the blue & blue-white are power lines, but the blue-white doesn't connect to anything. In fact...

Hey Alastair, Thanks for tge input. The CAT5 cables are good, i always crimp & test my own. The cables work fine on the other dome & bullets, it's just this one. My earlier message didn't format like I hoped, but the connected wires from the RJ45 plug to the molex seemed strange. I wondered...

Hello all, Having some trouble with a DS-2CD3335-i Dome camera (this is a Chinese version) Initially the camera worked when testing and once the 100' of cable was run, camera connected and plugged in - nothing! Actually the Cisco Catalyst PoE switch locked it down and disabled the port. Next...

**EDIT** The rest of the post might be interesting for those interested, but.... Anyhow, figuring I had nothing else to lose, I opened the camera. The **bleeping** ribbon cable had come unseated! How?? No idea, but I plugged it back in and Tada works again. So, as long as it works, the NVR sees...

Actually, I was trying on a separate network, just the camera, switch, pc and a router (to handle the DHCP IP needs) this network is connected to nothing else (intra or inter). The password was set when a friend was helping to get things setup. He setup that camera with a different password (as...

I was able to timestamp pings using hrPing and it looks like we're losing the camera for 30 - 40 seconds. Tomorrow I'll try pinging 192.0.0.64 and see what happens. Thanks

That's what I did with the IP address already, otherwise it kept incrementing every reboot. Still though it seems every reboot changes the xml expecyed response. As for the bootlop, I am wondering if that isbthe problem with the xml reset file. My seller can't get me the xml fast enough...

So, here's the report, it's just weird. More and more I am wondering if the camera is just hooped! So, I logged the pings to a notepad and them looked at them in Excel. Interesting is that the device will return 360 pings before doing one of two things. Here's a little snippet, bear in mind...

Hey, good thought on the continuous pinging, never thought of that. I'll give it a whirl tomorrow and report back. Don't you just love helpful hardware..... Cheers

Just to follow up, I did a small export.xml test and even if the camera is not reset, every time I export the xml (whether it be 5 seconds or 5 minutes apart) they are always different). So I am left wondering (and for the benefit of others in this position), does the camera issue a new xml...

Hey Enabler, thanks for the info. I think part of my problem is that the camera is already acting weird. It was set to DHCP, and if I leave it connected to the router (with a xx.xx.xx.2 - xx.xx.xx.200 range), the camera seems to reset itself automatically and get assigned a new IP address every...

Sorry, I shoukd have clarified. The cameras and NVR are chinese ones hacked with English menus. I was looking for a hacked 5.3.8 build 160108 with English menus. If the firmware isn't available, can I downgrade (as per the above) and still work with the NVR? If not, I've got a relatively...

Hello all, Had an issue of a lost password on a DS-2CD3335-I. The seller has been more that helpful in getting the encrypted password reset files, but after several attempts, the unit still fails to reset the password. As there is no firmware 5.3.8 build 160108 floating around in the wild, I'm...

Hello all, Maybe someone has some insight. I am trying to view my DS7732 NVR using iVMS-4200 (i've tried the lates and the previous "Lite" versions), but they keep hanging. I have separately installed WinCap 4.13 (as I read this can cause problems) iVMS-4200 starts up fine, even once I was able...

I bought a few DS-2CD3335-I eyeball cameras back in July, flashed with 5.3.8 build 160108 (also a couple DS-2CD3T45 bullets also with same firmware). I'd be happy to help and dump the firmware but I haven't a clue to do this. (I would probably be more successful getting milk from earthworms...)...

Thanks for that note - now I need to go back and start harassing the seller.... Interesting note though, on the 5.3.8 firmware is that if I run hiktools and change the language, it may not appear as per the hiktool notes at the beginning of the thread, but it does in fact change the language...

Hey, you guys are the bomb figuring all this out!! Kudos. My problem, looking for gentle suggestions, is that I have 5 DS-2CD3335-I cams. 4 of them are running firmware 5.3.8 build 106801, one of them is 5.3.3 build 150803. A friend was helping me install the cams and managed to change the...