5 MegaGixel 1/1.8" low light destroyer for $90-AVOID LONGSE JUNK

nayr said:
such a shit solution.. *sakes head*

you know you got problems when one camera's shit results in all cameras going down at the same time.
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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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30mins!? damn dude, at least buy a cheap digital timer.. you can set those to 1min intervals unlike those big old dial timers.
 
VorlonFrog said:
My camera will lose it's video source after about two to three days, making the weekly reboot capability ineffective. I've since put an old-school 24-hour timer on the POE switch that powers the camera, and it now cuts power every evening and reboots the camera.
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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..
 
VorlonFrog said:
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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The firmware is no longer on the HeroSpeed website. I'll assume this means they are done supporting it. Too bad for us.
 
zeoclang said:
The firmware is no longer on the HeroSpeed website. I'll assume this means they are done supporting it. Too bad for us.
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Hopefully it's because they found (the) critical issue(s) and took it down. Maybe a fix is incoming.



...I know, wishful thinking.
 
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 :

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)
~ #
 

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alastairstevenson said:
ugh 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
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+1 here. Four Longse cameras. Zero problems. I guess I'm lucky also.
 
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VorlonFrog said:
There's actually a newer 7.x release available on their website,
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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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alastairstevenson said:
Many thanks. And for sharing.
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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. :(
alastairstevenson said:
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.
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I honestly can't remember. I had my head in a bunch of databases all afternoon, and felt lucky to find it again. Thought I'd better post it here and save everyone else the problems.

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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I applied it to both of mine.

FYI there's a new web plugin with it. I haven't had much time to mess around with it but at first glance options and GUI look the same.
 
I dunno about that bro. You could be missing out on some major improvements!
 
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