Hi Mal,
As Phil has said above I have been testing the V9 firmware on our MS- NVR and that has worked fine, the new firmware has lots of nice features (instant playback, retrieve menu to search recordings by event and other filters, NAS connection, and more) which you can read more about in the attached release notes.
As Phil also said Milesight announced this morning that our UI- models would have a separate firmware version (71.8.45.7 & 72.8.45.7), this version will have the same effect as the V9 you have already tried (e.g. it will install the new file system).
This special firmware is linked in the release notes or you can download it from the links below:
71.8.45.7 - 5032, all 7000 series and all 8000 series NVRs
72.8.45.7 - 1009 and 5016 NVRs
We have installed it on one of the UI- models we have in the office and from the small amount of testing we have done this morning there doesn't appear to be any difference between the MS- and the UI- versions of the firmware.
Two
IMPORTANT things to be aware of though before updating to this firmware:
1. You cannot downgrade from this firmware, once installed you won't be able to downgrade to any firmware older than
xx.8.45.7
2. As this firmware introduces a new file system to the NVR you will have to format/initialize your HDDs after installing the firmware to continue recording (so if you have any important recording stored on the NVR before updating make sure to download & backup these recordings before updating the firmware)
After you have installed this unique firmware version Milesight have said that you should be able to install the standard version of all future firmware (e.g. 72.9.0.2, 72.9.0.5, etc...)
Also, I should point out that the VCA features you and some other customers were after will not be available in this firmware version, but Milesight has said that the VCA features will be included in the next firmware update (version 7x.9.0.2)