Hikvision NVR English firmware 3.4.80

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We don’t recommend users to upgrade DS-7608NI-I2 and DS-7608NI-I2/8P to V3.4.80 dueto RAM limit. Could they mean E2?
 

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We don’t recommend users to upgrade DS-7608NI-I2 and DS-7608NI-I2/8P to V3.4.80 dueto RAM limit. Could they mean E2?
Already chatting about this on the NVR firmware section. I don't think it does mean E2 as it refers to I2 again for something else.
 

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DS-7608NI-I2/8P > DS-7608NI-E2/8P, so this message does not make sense.
 

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Yes except you are forgetting one thing. This is Hikvision!

Yeah... This new firmware really does suck. Tried it for 15 minutes... Some configuration screen show empty data over https, but work fine over http. 3.4.62 did not have this problem, but had a tendency to reboot if you click too fast in the IVMS playback menu. I guess Hikvision's engineers are busy devising useless obfuscation schemes, so this update was probably crafted by their IT support interns.

Update: 3.4.80 randomly reboots, too. Downgrading back to 3.4.62
 

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Did you see if it had an event-marked continuous playback timeline in the web GUI?
I did not notice it, but I have not looked much because 76xx I2 with this firmware reboots all the time. I did research the reboots, they are OOM killings of hikvision's main process by the kernel, so HikVision's message about insufficient RAM on 76xx I2 devices is unfortunately correct. fsck hikvision wtf #$@#$%%#!! Do I have to upgrade to the huge-ass 7716 I4 now?

7716 I4 owners, how much RAM does the unit have? (cat /proc/meminfo)

76xx I2 has 382856 kB (256M+128M it looks like)
 

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This is a DS-7816N-E2 - 500MB RAM.
[root@dvrdvs /] # getHardInfo
Start at 2016-06-26 16:32:37
Serial NO :1620150203AARR503146794WCVU
V3.3.4 build 150616
softBase:/Platform/trunk:0
KernelVersion: V1.0.0 build 000000
dspSoftVersion: V5.0 build 150507
codecVersion: V5.0 build 150507
hardwareVersion = 0x0
encodeChans = 0
decodeChans = 16
alarmInNums = 0
alarmOutNums = 0
flashsize = 0x0
ramSize = 0x40000000
networksNums = 1
language = 1
devType:DS-7816N-E2
bootPartition = 1
randomCode =
[root@dvrdvs /] #

[root@dvrdvs /] # free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 526192 512260 13932 0 315152
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 526192 512260 13932
[root@dvrdvs /] #
 

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Well, at least they have updated the info .... :sad2:
Cheers,
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I did not notice it, but I have not looked much because 76xx I2 with this firmware reboots all the time. I did research the reboots, they are OOM killings of hikvision's main process by the kernel, so HikVision's message about insufficient RAM on 76xx I2 devices is unfortunately correct. fsck hikvision wtf #$@#$%%#!! Do I have to upgrade to the huge-ass 7716 I4 now?

7716 I4 owners, how much RAM does the unit have? (cat /proc/meminfo)

76xx I2 has 382856 kB (256M+128M it looks like)
Does this apply to 8p and 16p?
 
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Does this apply to 8p and 6p?
That is a good question. Somebody with a 7616 I2/16P, check your memory size.

DS-7608NI-I2/8P has 384Mb of system RAM
DS-7608NI-E2/16P has 512Mb of system RAM

This confirms my suspicion that all Hikvision hardware is designed by pandas in the Hangzhou zoo.
 
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That is a good question. Somebody with a 7616 I2/16P, check your memory size.

DS-7608NI-I2/8P has 384Mb
DS-7608NI-E2/16P has 512Mb

This confirms my suspicion that all Hikvision hardware is designed by pandas in the Hangzhou zoo. No engineer would ever put less RAM in a more capable hardware with a faster CPU. HikVision -- why? To save $3?
Wow, I am glad i got 16P version, who knew they would screw this up. I wonder if I2/8P version will see any future upgrades. What about E2/8P, does it have 512 as well?
 

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DS-7608NI-I2/8P has 384Mb of system RAM
DS-7608NI-E2/16P has 512Mb of system RAM
Update: The amount of memory seemed too small, so I opened the NVR. It actually has 1GB of DDR3 DRAM. Here is what I think the issue is:

8P hardware comes with 1GB of DRAM. Of the 1Gb, 640MB (80MB per channel) is allocated for video buffers, which leaves 384MB for system RAM.
I bet that 16P hardware comes with 2GB of DRAM. Of the 2Gb, 1.5GB (96MB per channel) is allocated for video buffers, which leaves 512MB for system RAM.

There are two bootparam dwords at offset 0xCC that control how much video and system ram is allocated.

Anybody with a DS-7608NI-I2/16P, please post a picture of the board or markings on the 4 identical chips around the CPU heatsink to confirm he above. The chips should say "SK Hynix" on them.
 
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no needto wait for the answerto your question, just lookthe filestart.sh
But that does not tell you what the specific NVR is equipped with.
It's only checking what @montecrypto has already referenced in the hardware descriptor block:
Code:
echo "----------<3> load hisi sdk ----------"
SYSTEM_DDR=`echo | awk -F: '/DDR Bits Width/{print $2}' /proc/hkvs/cpldinfo`
echo "The system mem size is $SYSTEM_DDR"
cd /home/app/hisi/modules/
if [ "$SYSTEM_DDR" == "0x0" ] 
then
    /home/app/hisi/modules/load3535 -i 1024M
elif [ "$SYSTEM_DDR" == "0x1" ]
then
    /home/app/hisi/modules/load3535 -i 512M
elif [ "$SYSTEM_DDR" == "0x2" ]
then
    /home/app/hisi/modules/load3535 -i 2048M
elif [ "$SYSTEM_DDR" == "0x3" ]
then
    /home/app/hisi/modules/load3535 -i 1024M
elif [ "$SYSTEM_DDR" == "0x4" ]
then
    /home/app/hisi/modules/load3535 -i 2048M
fi
cd -
This is my 7816N-E2 cpldinfo:
Code:
alastair@PC-I5 ~ $ telnet 192.168.1.211
Trying 192.168.1.211...
Connected to 192.168.1.211.
Escape character is '^]'.

dvrdvs login: root
Password: 


BusyBox v1.16.1 (2015-02-10 11:41:13 CST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

psh: applet not found
[root@dvrdvs /] # cat /proc/hkvs/cpldinfo
=============== CPLD INFO ===============
Main Board type   :0xb000
PCB type  :DS8180
CPU frequency   :0x0
DDR frequency   :0x0
DDR Bits Width    :0x0
Flash type   :0x0
Flash volume   :0x0
Programme year   :0xd
Programme month   :0xc
Programme day   :0x10
HDMI count   :0x1
VGA count   :0x1
CVBS count   :0x0
Audio in AD chip   :0x0
Audio out DA chip   :0x0
Audio out count    :0x1
Audio in   count   :0x1
Audio intercom  :0x1
Rs232 count   :0x1
Rs485 type   :0xf
Rs485 count   :0x0
MAC0 Phy   :0x0
MAC1 phy   :0x0
MAC0 Mode   :0x0
MAC1 Mode   :0x3
phy0 id   :0x8
phy1 id   :0x7
Sata PM chip   :0x0
Panel type   :0x1
USB count   :0x2
Hardisk count   :0x2
esata count      :0x0
Alarm in count   :0x4
Alarm out count   :0x1
[root@dvrdvs /] #
 
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