It's my first time posting here, have been reading these forms on and off lately after getting my hands on some Chinese Hikvison gear. I have worked a lot with customizing OpenWrt for our companies products.
I have sent a request to Hikvison requesting source code, with this it should be possible to compile firmware with the English language region. Their newer firmware seems to use encryption so changing the language version with programs like hiktools (also posted in thie forum) doesn't work.
A sample cam (2CD3325-I) I have is running U-Boot 2010.06-153460 (Oct 10 2015 - 18:21:59) with Kernel version Linux-3.4.35-g0, both of which are licensed under the GNU General Public Licence for free software.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.en.html
There also others included like BusyBox also GPL software.
The cam I have doesn't have a JTAG but does have a ttl at 3.3v which I used to gain somewhat limited access to the boot loader and linux console. I tried to tftp firmware from earlier versions but got a check error, it looks like uboot was upgraded to a newer version when hikvision started encrypting their firmware. I'm not sure of anyone on here who has an earlier uboot verison they could share, there is a uboot upgrade command available after doing Ctrl+u to interrupt the boot process which may be able to downgrade uboot hence allowing earlier firmware to be loaded.
It also seems Hikvision are using a subversion repository after issuing the command Hardinfo, if they can supply a copy of this then it will make life far more easier as far a language regions go.
I am hoping that Hikvision will comply with my request, if they do i'll post back here.
I have sent a request to Hikvison requesting source code, with this it should be possible to compile firmware with the English language region. Their newer firmware seems to use encryption so changing the language version with programs like hiktools (also posted in thie forum) doesn't work.
A sample cam (2CD3325-I) I have is running U-Boot 2010.06-153460 (Oct 10 2015 - 18:21:59) with Kernel version Linux-3.4.35-g0, both of which are licensed under the GNU General Public Licence for free software.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.en.html
There also others included like BusyBox also GPL software.
The cam I have doesn't have a JTAG but does have a ttl at 3.3v which I used to gain somewhat limited access to the boot loader and linux console. I tried to tftp firmware from earlier versions but got a check error, it looks like uboot was upgraded to a newer version when hikvision started encrypting their firmware. I'm not sure of anyone on here who has an earlier uboot verison they could share, there is a uboot upgrade command available after doing Ctrl+u to interrupt the boot process which may be able to downgrade uboot hence allowing earlier firmware to be loaded.
It also seems Hikvision are using a subversion repository after issuing the command Hardinfo, if they can supply a copy of this then it will make life far more easier as far a language regions go.
I am hoping that Hikvision will comply with my request, if they do i'll post back here.
