Sorry for the delay, I have been away overseas for a bit.
I did get the unit back, I sent it to the company that I purchased it from (it was an Aus unit), they then sent it to Hikvision AU who recovered the unit with the last V3 build firmware my NVR would take (that was my request not to have a...
Hi All, so the end result is I got onto an Aussie distributor for these and I have no choice but to send it back to Hikvision AU for them to recover it with local firmware. I am dumbfounded that they allow firmware that will brick a device just because it is from a different region to even...
Hi Dan, thanks for the response.
Between me posting my message and your reply I did indeed hook it up to a monitor via HDMI and it is actually booting up (no brick thankfully).
I can also see it using SADP, so this is a good sign but it is just not visible on my network at the reserved IP...
Hi Everyone, what a great forum to stumble across for Hikvision advice.
My NVR was running ancient firmware (V3.3.9 build 170105) so I decided to go down the update path and getting it as up to date as possible even though it is EOL now. I followed the upgrade path version guide I found on...