Again, not sure what you mean here, especially the part about 'archive last forever'. It might be the language differences. Sorry I don't speak German, which might help?
maybe i missed some commas.
the part is "the firmware from the same archive".
the download from the dahua site is an zip archive, that contains 2 .bin files.
one for the firmware, and one for the sqashfs with the webinterface.
if i choose the squasfs binfile, it updates fine.
if i choose the firmware file, the same popup (updateing, please dont close) appears, but it never get finished.
there is no brick, there is no lock (the abort button works).
We all here have seen so many folks brick a cam or just be totally frustrated with firmware updates.
That never happend to me.
Most cameras are going to be this way. Very few even provide updates at all.
so the situation in us seems to be completely different to europe/germany.
normally, if i buy a product, i can expect to get an eu version of the product and to find the right firmware version in the european part of the manufacturers website.
You do realize that starlight is simply a marketing term. It means nothing. Sounds like operator error and chaning settings without knowing what they mean.
sure i know, that this is a marketing term.
but it is used to specify cameras with a low light capable chip.
and the descriptions and photos suggests, that it will dynamically rise the ir illumination, if the normal light is not sufficient.
so, at some point it has to remove the ir-cut filter.
at this moment, it completely switches to b/w mode instead of mixing the 2 pictures.
some cams seems to really mix them (as i see it at the pictures).