Recent content by kautrey

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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    SUCCESS! I got it running with the 5.4.5 version. I may be brave and try to update to the 5.4.41... Thanks for your help.
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    Hmm... I can't get /bin/upgrade to do anything. I have the Hikvision TFTP updater running. I open up a PuTTY session - and here's the transcript:
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    I followed everything step by step and carefully (I'm a software engineer, so I know that every bit is important!), so I am pretty confident that I calculated the Checksum-16 over the correct range, and entered it in "little endian", byte-swapped mode. But now that I know about the /bin/upgrade...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    Yessir, as the digicap.dav file, I used the 5.4.5 version. That's the version that the camera just boots into Min System mode, which I can telnet into, and the /dav directory is empty. So, I am trying to use the next lower version (5.4.41). I'll try the /bin/upgrade command next time I'm at...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    So the content of the file wasn't important, so I wrote "Alistair ROCKS!" to the file. And it worked! Well, it got me past that part. I followed the steps and installed one of the firmware versions linked in the instructions. Now, every time I boot the camera, it boots into Min System mode...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    Help please! It's at this point that I ran into problems. My anti-virus software decided to kill the tftp server process while it was transferring the mtd6ro_orig file. So the file never made it to my PC to edit. But the script set itself up for the next phase - but that next phase expects...