Chinese Region Cam with Western Region DVR?

[wxman]

I have a question regarding mixing Chinese region and western region cams & DVRs.

I have an extra Chinese region DS-2CD2032F-I (sticker firmware 5.3.0, but seller downgraded it to English 5.2.5).....However, doing a telnet into the cam and looking at the MTD5 and MTD6 files shows the language flag as "2"...

I'm wanting to send this one to someone I know to add to their system, but they would need to use it with Hikvision DVR model DS-7316HQHI-SH.....It's a western region (WR in serial number) and uses firmware V3.1.8

Will this give a language mismatch error? If so, what can I do to prevent that before sending them the cam? Should I change the language flags to "1" in the MTD5 and MTD6 files? Anything else I should change to make sure it's compatible?

Thanks!

 

[alastairstevenson]

One way to determine what the camera would tell the NVR about it's language is to use:
http://<camera_IP_address>SDK/language
and see what it comes back with.
It should be something like this:

[COLOR=blue]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>[/COLOR]
[URL="http://192.168.254.11:90/SDK/language#"]<[COLOR=#990000]Language[/COLOR] [COLOR=red]xmlns[/COLOR]="[COLOR=red][B]http://www.hikvision.com/ver10/XMLSchema[/B][/COLOR]" [COLOR=#990000]version[/COLOR]="[COLOR=black][B]1.0[/B][/COLOR]">[/URL]<[COLOR=#990000]type[/COLOR]>english[COLOR=blue]</[COLOR=#990000]type[/COLOR]>[/COLOR][COLOR=blue]</[COLOR=#990000]Language[/COLOR]>[/COLOR]

But I'd guess with 'Chinese'

 

[wxman]

Ok, I tried this and it says English


<Language version="1.0"><type>english</type></Language>

I also did a telnet into the cam and used the prtHardInfo command and it gives a "language = 1"

So I guess I'm good to go. Although the language flag in MTD5 and MTD6 are still at "2"...Should I change those to "1" just to be on the safe side, or should I just leave them at "2" since the cam seems to be reverting to language 1/english somewhere else?

 

[alastairstevenson]

Although the language flag in MTD5 and MTD6 are still at "2"...Should I change those to "1" just to be on the safe side, or should I just leave them at "2" since the cam seems to be reverting to language 1/english somewhere else?

In my view - best left alone, with no firmware updates.
It seems like it's running 'hacked firmware' that masquerades the language as =1 despite what's still set in the mtdblock6
As long as that remains in the camera, it should be fine.

 

[wxman]

Thanks! Will leave it as is and give it a try.