How do you support outdated NVRs (when you have to)?

[muzicman82]

Hi all,

I'm an AV integrator. We've been doing more and more surveillance jobs lately, but mostly for clients where we already support the AV and/or network systems.

Many of the recent systems I've been asked to support or upgrade are older platforms, where browser access requires Flash or some IE plugin. How do you support these systems? I know for Flash I keep a portable copy of Firefox with Flash support. With Windows 10/11 you can't really do that for IE. There's VMs but that's not very practical for an end user.

Just curious what all of you do these days...

 

[wittaj]

Keep an older laptop that is not on the internet so we keep IE.

And knock on wood many of us turn off Win10 updates and have kept IE...

 

[Mark_M]

Keep a spare laptop handy with it.
I would even recommend a laptop with Windows 7 on it and Java v5 installed. I have some very old Bosch IP devices and Java v9 (or what ever it's up to) is soo locked down that I cannot get the PTZ functions to work through IE. They make it so annoying to put your computer's security at risk!

I don't have a spare device so I use a virtual machine but getting the networking working occasionally is annoying.