I have opened a ticket with Laview to ask about using Hikvision firmware on my Laview IP camera.
The reason I want to use the Hikvision 5.5 firmware instead of the latest Laview 5.4 firmware that is available is because the Hikvision 5.5 firmware corrects the giant bug in the 5.4 firmware which lets anyone (that knows how) bypass the login screen and gain access to your camera. All the Laview IP cameras with firmware 5.4 that I had open to the Internet were constantly being hacked and I had to close them off to only local viewing.
It pisses me off that I have a dozen of these Laview cameras that cost over $1000 and I cannot use them for their intended purpose over the Internet. Laview says theLV-PC902F2-W IP cameras are no longer being supported and they are not releasing any more Laview specific firmware updates (they do not even create the firmware) for the camera. This is pathetic support to leave a product with this type of firmware issue without an update when Hikvision fixed the problem a year ago.
I could just try flashing the firmware but I am afraid of bricking a camera that still works for internal viewing.