They should work. I've also found on mine that you can use a regular serial cable but you need to swap the two data pins on the connector inside the NVR where the serial port connects to the mainboard is all.
worked well but instead of pressing * once I had to press 3 times.Thanks Harold.
Did the instructions mixman left work as listed or did you need to modify them?
Maybe mine was new , where can I see that ? on the model itself its NR916-NJust to check in. I have using my flashed Lorex for almost a year now. Works great! Has anyone been able flash one of the newer NR9163X Lorex NVRs? Thinking about buying another kit but would love to know if this works still.
Do you know what package you bought?Maybe mine was new , where can I see that ? on the model itself its NR916-N
I believe 4KHDIP1612WDo you know what package you bought?
Hi @exarkunI recently purchased this lorex kit from Costco.
It consists of an NVR (Lorex model LNR6164T/LNR616X) and 9x cameras (Lorex model LNB8105X - re-badged/crippled Dahua model IPC-HFW1831C-PIR)
I powered the NVR up and tested all the cameras to make sure everything was in working order before installing for real. During this setup, I found one of the cameras would not work/the NVR could not communicate with it.
I reset the camera and it still would not connect, so I connected it to my network directly after resetting it again. I got it to work this way and found that even though it is labeled as a LNB8105X-C, it is running the Dahua firmware (2.622.0000000.31.R, Build Date: 2018-08-13). IVS is even enabled.
Has anyone tested Dahua firmware on this NVR? What is the corresponding Dahua model? Maybe N52B3P?
Regarding the cameras, I don't see that anyone has successfully installed the Dahua firmware on Lorex versions. Would my camera running the Dahua firmware give any clues as to how to do this?
Thanks for your efforts and links! I am following along and wanting to do something similarMinor update. I booted the NVR with the serial port hooked up. Interrupted the boot and everything is pretty much the same as mixmansc has in his post.
I haven't tried updating the comparable Dahua firmware yet as I would like a backup copy of the Lorex firmware, just in case. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the Lorex firmware for LNR6164T/LNR616X?
The last updates on the lorex site are in September 2017 nothing is listed for the LNR600 series
Is this firmware last posted by thedude compatible since it is an LNR600 series? There has to be a newer version than 2017, no? All I can tell from the web ui is I am at "firmware version 00003" and "build date 06-28-2018"
Thanks
Edit: Found my firmware (and many others) on this site: Firmware - LorexWiki
To install the dahua firmware, it is upgrade.img. The directions for tftp firmware installs are also with upgrade.img There is no upgrade.img inside the .binYou should be able to revert it to the Lorex firmware using the same methods with the serial console if you wanted to. The Dahua Wiki - Index of /images/Firmware
Those are the instructions to install if you have an "upgrade.img" file. I do not have that for the lorex firmware, I have LNR616X_20180628_00003.bin which, once extracted, gives: