Hello friends and good day, this is Fred with Tech Talk and we are coming at you today with a video
on how you can remotely upgrade the firmware in your Dahua NVR, DVR or IP Camera. This is very
simple to do. Just head over to the Dahua Wiki firmware section. Pick your recorder
and download the firmware. You can then upload it to your recorder using the Dahua Smart PSS.
We are going to teach you how to do all of this it's a simple process let's get into it now
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Many of our ideas for these videos are based on subscriber question and comments so yes the first
thing we're going to do is open Dahua Smart PSS which is its client software for remote managing
NVRs, DVRs and IP cameras. If you have not yet downloaded this tool and connected your p2p
device to it by serial number there's a video going across the top of our screen right now
that will share with you how to do that okay. This video we are limited in in time and we are
given that you've already completed that step okay so at this point you have the recorder
connected to smart pss and we're connecting to it remotely okay the recorder that we're
doing this demonstration with uh is actually a hundred miles away so we're going to come down
under configuration you'll see device config down at the bottom we're going to pick that and
then we're going to pick the recorder that we want to upgrade okay i'm going to pick har as
you can see we have several locations linked most people only have one or two but you're
going to pick your device and you're going to wait for this upgrade button to turn blue okay
and what we're going to do is we're going to get our device model number
okay and our firmware version you can see this is version 4.001 and we're going to head to the
dawa wiki firmware upgrade page we're going to put in our model number and we'll be able to
find the upgraded firmware i happen to know this version 4 is now at 0 0 2 so that's what
we'll be looking for and again our model number is n54 a4 p24 so we'll head over to the dawah
website there is a link to this particular website and the description to our video okay
and here is dawa's wiki firmware upgrade page you can see it's separated by nvr
dvr um wi-fi cameras and so forth so we're simply going to look for our recorder
okay there it oh no there it is right here n54a4p
it's a 24 channel nvr okay so what we can do is we can now download the firmware right
and it's going to put it into our downloads folder we'll wait for that to happen okay
there that's happened once you've done that you can close out of the dawah wiki page
and we will go back into smart pss and we are going to hit that upgrade button
okay and it's going to ask us to upload the updated firmware okay so we're just
going to hit our file folder right here we're going to go into that downloads bin
and right there we see the bin file okay so we can double click here and as i said you can see the
upgraded version is version 4.002 up here we have version 4.001 so we know
this is the upgraded firmware we want and we're just going to hit this blue button
and you can see that it will tell you it started the upgrading process
and we're going to let it finish it will take a minute or two to do this remotely
all right as you can see the firmware upgrade process has completed we now see version 4.002
whereas it was zero zero one before okay
it will also tell you the bill date of that upgrade um which was march 22nd of 2022
which was pretty recently so what i always do after a firmware upgrade we want to log into
the recorder make sure the time date stamp uh is still correct that all the cameras are showing
with the correct channel names the osd overlay um and also that playback works okay because every
now and then with these upgrades uh they'll hit a kink and and the recorder um may need to be reset
on some of the settings so we're just going to double check everything works as it should
we can go to live view and here is our har we can check main parking it looks
like all of our names did import with the upgrade there's our main parking the time
is correct everything looks like it's streaming fluently we'll just check a another camera here
everything looks like it's streaming fluently again the time is right
so let's just do a quick playback here
we'll pick car again um we'll pick the main parking lot and we'll just use today's records
quite a bit of motion there um
and we'll have playback
there's a car causing the motion it certainly looks like everything
is working properly the one thing i did want to mention when you do this firmware upgrade
and you download the software onto your machine once it finishes the upgrade remotely
the recorder will reboot automatically after the upgrade so you will see it go offline um
on smart pss in the device config page in other words this where it says har right now
it will have a red circle here indicating it's offline if that happens after your firm
firmware upgrade don't be alarmed just give it a couple minutes the recorder will come back online
during these videos we had the luxury to cut out that piece um so you're not sitting and watching
nothing um but that will happen okay and depending on the speed of the internet uh and the amount
of cameras you have hooked up to the recorder that may take an amount of time on location but
anyway that's the upgrading process we really love this dow equipment we love smart pss
and the dmss phone app that goes with it hopefully you enjoyed the video we'll see you in the field