hikvision 5.2.8

[riri7707]

Yes I think, they upgrade the original firmware by an kacked one to be multilanguage and allow them the availability to make international sales.
Now, they have also their cooking and seems they don't make it the same way, depends of the vendor.

And, when it was done like a rabbit, you still have on the date some OSD in Chineese, even if the rest is in English.
Some idea here ?

For the number of the region, I don't have any idea.
Someone else for that ?

 

[S474N]

Yes, also have problem with day of week - not in english, but in chineese.

 

[riri7707]

Yes, seems to me there is another value not changed correctly somewhere.
It was not made 100% multilanguage and can influance the OSD on other VMS, even if on settings we do not activate the OSD. in the camera
In my case for example, I do not have the OSD time through my VMS in some of them. I do not modified the FW, as it was delivered originally in 5.2.5 multilanguage.
I have my firsty ones made by CBX and in those ones the OSD is correct and also with my VMS.

Open thinking....

 

[S474N]

I have another original cams with firmware 5.2.3 and also 5.2.5 with correct date. Do you know, in which file is it?

 

[riri7707]

I'm not an expert at all as i'm not a programer...
But all seems to turn around the "IEfile.tar.gz" under /DAV folder...
The firmwares are unified for the same range: 2CDxxx models

 

[S474N]

Yes, but this file is archive of tons of files

 

[riri7707]

Yep,
The best specialist is CBX....
Others made it quite well but not 100% English or multilanguage.

This is the status today....
A lot of posts, some guidelines but not the full solution plug & play free.
Probably will happens soon.

From my side as I can record and playback the streams, that's enough as I used the cams through Onvif Compliance with my VMS and NVR. But Onvif have limitations today and don't provide all functions Embedded in the cams like the alarms management for example with Hik cams at this moment.
The last official fw from HIK sites seems to be 5.2.3.
The other new ones : ghost firmwares for moment over HIK ftp sites

 

[S474N]

But there is information about firmware on stick on cam and on package. I think, that's directly from factory.

 

[riri7707]

Yes,
But when you read CCCH in the S/N, these cams are not for USA or European markets as per my understood.

So these cams are not supported outside China and of course these original fw are all chineese.

What we received are all modifed fw by the sellers and in some cases, not modified at all.

It's like the DVD and BLURAY : you have régions and the players are distribued region by region too.
Means If you buy a Bluray from USA (labelled region1, normally you can not play it in Europe region 2)
But there too you have a multitude of hacks for that (but this is another world, but same history than here).

 

[S474N]

Do you know how about # NVR? In cams I have CCCH, but in NVR is another code.

 

[riri7707]

I used a third party NVR not Hik solution.
So I have less issues about languages as my VMS doesn't take care about: only Onvif compliance and Hik does it correctly as they are Onvif certified.

If some one have more info, you are welcome.

 

[S474N]

Which type-model you used?

I have Hikvision, but there are problems with NVR PoE ports. If I connected directly to this port, I cannot see cam on LAN, directly via IP. I'm disgusted.

 

[riri7707]

My cams goes directly to a manageable POE Switch TPLink.
Some outside cams goes through Ubiquiti Wifi Lan network, where I have power supply but not LAN cabling.
From my house I use also a dedicated wifi link: NanoStation Loco m2 to make a bridge over 1 km for the CCTV of my parents house.
So I can also manage their security as they are quite old, in case of urgent needs and healt assistance.
So I can always ping the cams according to the LAN settings Inside the cam.
From there my streams goes to my VMS (Indigovision Control Center) and to my PC NVR (Indigovision NVR-AS)
Doesn't matter if my NVR is working or not, I always have the live view from my VMS. When requested playback from NVR for search.
So I Just need the streaming from cams, that's it.
I decided to go now with Hik cams, because the quality/price and Onvif compliance, so it works quite well (but no Alarm management with Onvif).
On top of that, in my PC NVR, I have also a free NTP server time installed to sync all my puppies, wks, servers, etc...
NTP is important to have timesync playback between different cams at same time.

That's somewhere why I do not have to take care about the languages, except for the settings at installation of the cam.
I hate nvr's hardware physically because compatibility problems, issues with hardware, limitations of the throughput and somewhere limited for future addons.
But this is my choice...

 

[S474N]

Understand. I must also buy patch panel with POE, because this is unusable.

 

[riri7707]

Yes, I recommend that.
Some switch models 4xPOE or 8xPOE are not so expensive than that.
Best choice is to have it manageable if you want to use multicast.
But my best recommendation, don't buy UFO switch from China, go to TPLINK/NETGEAR, that's fine....
Or POE injectors, if you have only 2/3 cams. That's also fine and you will be 100% independant of the NVR.
I don't understand that the NVRs have now POE inputs... Too risky...
But for sure always pricing....
Never made economy on LAN products please...

 

[S474N]

I have 8 cams, but I have two 24p GLAN switch, then I will buy only passive patch panel and PoE splitter for cam.

Now i'm looking in my NVR (DS-7616NI-E2/8P) to function Line Crossing and nothing :-(

 

[riri7707]

Can't you connect directly from your 24p switch to RJ45 from DS ?
Normally must to work, even if it's POE on you NVR.
Must to be transparent, no?
I don't know this specific model, what was written in user manual?
Maybe Google or Youtube regading the connections possibilities with your specific model?

 

[S474N]

Actually I don't have another PoE (injector and splitter).

Function Line Crossing and another one aren't in NVR menu.

And now I have problem with connect flashed cam to NVR. Anothers (originaly flashed) works perfectly

 

[S474N]

NVR via web interface info in this flashed cam: "Offline(Language version mismatch)" :shame:

 

[alastairstevenson]

Plenty of solutions to all these issues and more in the forum.
Do you have 'Virtual Host' in your NVR, is it enabled? Network settings | Advanced tickbox.