How To Upgrade Amcrest / Lorex to Dahua Firmware And Get All Dahua Features

TheWaterbug

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Just thought that I'd chime in and mention that I decided to do some work on automatically pulling down many firmwares across multiple OEMs, and built a site that can help with finding other potentially compatible firmwares for devices. It can be found at:
On behalf of The Internet I'd like to apologize in advance for the n00bs who will no doubt be blaming you for bricking their cameras.

And a sincere Thank You for the rest of us who understand that you're just trying to help.
 

Eagle29

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Just thought that I'd chime in and mention that I decided to do some work on automatically pulling down many firmwares across multiple OEMs, and built a site that can help with finding other potentially compatible firmwares for devices. It can be found at:
Here's an example of a camera with a few different firmwares that should be compatible: Here's an example of a firmware that internally lists multiple cameras as supported:
As a further note,many firmwares on the site don't show any compatible devices. This is due to how I'm programmatically determining the devices supported. I check the check.img first, then check if Install.lua contains any board.name or `vendor.Name`s, then fall back to checking the u-boot.bin.img header information (although this usually is the SoC that U-boot is targeting, this can sometimes be a model number). I'd love to hear from anyone who knows any other ways of determining compatibility.
Thank you, this is helpful
 

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Has anyone managed to flash an IP8M device with Dahua firmware? I noticed some mentions that something was changed and Amcrest base firmware won't let you cross update anymore? I have some cameras with circa 2020 firmware and none of the Dahua packages that should work, are working.

Model: IP8M-T2599E
processor=SSC328Q
updateSerial=IPC-HDW2831TP-AS-S2
updateSerialCloudUpgrade=IPC-HDW2831TP-AS-S2:01:02:05:9E:3D:00:01:10:01:00:04:400:00:00:00:00:00:01:00:00:100

I tried every version of DH_IPC-HX25 I could find and none of them work, even though the 2831 device is listed in their check.img files (inside the .bin file).

I really just want a firmware version that will work with SMB and not require NFS.
 
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