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No, the firmware you linked to is for the I-series NVRs. E-series firmware is here : https://www.hikvisioneurope.com/eu/portal/?dir=portal/Technical%20Materials/02%20%20NVR/00%20%20Product%20Firmware/07%20E-series/%5B7600NI-E1%28E2%29%207700NI-E4%5D

That's quite an old model NVR. What model and firmware version are the cameras you ended up buying? There may be some compatibility issues if there is a big gap in the device ages.

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If the cameras are 'inactive' and the NVR PoE port is set to Plug&Play all that's needed is to connect the camera to the NVR PoE port. The NVR will activate the camera, set the password as configured in the NVR and set the camera IP address automatically.

What version of CN firmware did you apply?

You should be able to play back recordings right up to the minute - there is no 24 hour buffer.

Make / model of NVR and cameras? Do you get the same issue if you access playback via the VGA/HDMI interface?

That's a pity. A bit of a long shot - but there are quite a few newer versions of the NVR firmware here, mostly bugfixes / compatibility problems ...

Is h.265 enabled on the camera? The E-series NVRs don't support that codec.

Are you recording to a Hikvision NVR? In the web GUI, under System, tick the box 'Enable rules' and all triggered events will show on the video.

As it doesn't look like the firmware update has also cleared the configuration, it may be worth checking (this varies from model and manufacture date) is if there is a command still in the bootloader to erase the config. Sometimes something like erasecfg Interrrupt the bootloader, then use 'b'...

Yes, the same error triggering the reboot. My guess is it's a hardware fault, unfortunately.

The capabilities are coded into the bootpara data that's written into the flash during manufacturer - the firmware isn't different, it just adapts to the hardware it's executing in. The more channels and the higher processing bandwidth, the more RAM, clockspeed and CPU / DSP cores are in the...

What elements are ticked in the camera web GUI under System | System settings | Metadata tab ?

Yes, the PC on your LAN that must be running a standard tftp server, not the Hikvision tftp updater which has a 32MB filesize limit. The one from Phiippe Jounin usually works OK. https://pjo2.github.io/tftpd64/ There can be issues in updating from the V3.x firmware to the V4.x firmware if the...