Simpson474

Sorry for the late reply, I tried your file and it happens exactly the same as with my modifications: the camera is no longer accessible afterwards. Can you please provide me the "05r" version of hiktools as it seems to be no longer available? The "digicam.dav" file you have used for the "split" command is required in the same folder which also contains "hiktools05R1.exe" and the "temp" folder.

I also don't understand it. The firmware is Chinese for sure: if I delete the "temp" folder containing the extracted image and execute the following commands I get a working image "temp.dav": hiktools05R1.exe split digicap.dav temp hiktools05R1.exe create digicap.dav temp If I now add the further step to replace the "IEfile.tar.gz" (even if I just unpack and repack the file) in the temp directory before executing the second command, the TFTP Update will stop at "Completed file [C:\test\digicap.dav] transmit" and the "Device[192.0.0.64] system update completed!" message will never show up.

I tried today using UID/GID 1000/1000 but still no luck. Moreover I tried a very old Linux Live-CD I have burnt several years ago but extracting and repacking "IEfile.tar.gz" still caused the camera to be non-functional after flashing. However, I managed to find on the internet a special downgrade firmware from 5.3.0 Chinese to a hacked 5.2.5 multilingual: this firmware is working fine on my camera.

I am also trying to do the 5.3.0 language fix but no success so far: I can successfully split/create the unmodified image using hiktools (version 05R1) but whenever I try changing the "IEfile.tar.gz", there is no success message from the TFTP Server and the camera is inaccessible after flashing. It is enough if I extract the "IEfile.tar.gz" archive and recreate it without modifying any file within. At the beginning I had the problem that the ownership of the files in the archive was lost if I recreated the *.tar file but this issue has been solved by creating the user and group "ci". Now if I look at the content of the *.tar file I cannot see any difference (the files are not exactly binary compatible but only the order in which the files are displayed differs) compared to the HikVision file but it is still not working. Moreover the LZMA compression according to 7-zip is exactly the same (LZMA:23) as used by the HikVision file. Could it be that some kind of SecureBoot has been implemented which checks the signature of the files? My DS-2CD2132F-IS camera has already been shipped with firmware 5.3.0 according to the label, maybe it has a newer bootloader on it. Could someone please provide me his working "IEfile.tar.gz" to verify whether it is also working for me (I can also provide my non-working file if someone wants to test it).