Camera appears to be bricked, need help unbricking it

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This morning, one of my cams had hundreds of these alerts from my Unifi network controller. It's really strange because the IP of the camera is 192.168.1.216. I reset the port and the camera goes offline within a few seconds. Anyone else with a Unifi network experience this. Do I need to add some firewall rules to resolve this? Thanks!

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I temporarily turned off the Unifi Security Detections and the camera still doesn't stay online more than a few seconds after it reboots. I also did a factory reset and the problem remains. Time to reach out to Andy and ask him.
 
105437 said:
This morning, one of my cams had hundreds of these alerts from my Unifi network controller. It's really strange because the IP of the camera is 192.168.1.216. I reset the port and the camera goes offline within a few seconds. Anyone else with a Unifi network experience this. Do I need to add some firewall rules to resolve this? Thanks!
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The cam has failed for some reason and is in a boot loop defaulting back to the 192.168.1.108 address and looking for a TFTP server at the 192.168.254.254:69 address/port.

I've not had to try recover one so I'll let someone else answer that part but that's why Unifi is alerting you to the TFTP traffic.
 
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Mike A. said:
The cam has failed for some reason and is in a boot loop defaulting back to the 192.168.1.108 address and looking for a TFTP server at the 192.168.254.254:69 address/port.

I've not had to try recover one so I'll let someone else answer that part but that's why Unifi is alerting you to the TFTP traffic.
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Yeah, I was afraid of that. I brought the cam inside and now it won't even power up.
 
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Maybe change the title to something about recovering a cam and maybe someone can help.

There's some info here:

Dahua IPC EASY unbricking / recovery over TFTP

A successor of Dahua IPC unbricking / recovery over serial UART and TFTP I recommend you to read through the above thread first. If your camera still has a working bootloader (assume it does) then you can flash it easily, because: The camera tries to download a file called...
ipcamtalk.com ipcamtalk.com
 
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Mike A. said:
Maybe change the title to something about recovering a cam and maybe someone can help.

There's some info here:

Dahua IPC EASY unbricking / recovery over TFTP

A successor of Dahua IPC unbricking / recovery over serial UART and TFTP I recommend you to read through the above thread first. If your camera still has a working bootloader (assume it does) then you can flash it easily, because: The camera tries to download a file called...
ipcamtalk.com ipcamtalk.com
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Changed the thread title. Looking into the link you sent. Appreciate it!
 
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