Hi guys Hik Guru here in todays video I'm going to be showing you how to update your
HikVision firmware on DVRs NVRs and IP cameras via the web interface. It's always important
to keep your devices up to date as updates commonly patch security issues or integrate
new features and functions. So first off lets start with DVRs and NVRs. If you don't already
know what model number yours is then we'll have to quickly find it. To do this go onto
internet explorer, type in your DVRs IPv4 address, if you're unsure of what that is
you can just simply use HikVision's SADP Tool the link to this will be in the description.
You're just going to login with your NVR or DVRs credentials, you're now going to click
on configuration and click on system settings if it's not already shown up, and to the right
of here you'll see model followed by the model number, just take note of this number. Now
let's go to maintenance on the left hand side, this is where we're going to upload the upgrade
file down here. Now lets open a new tab, go to google, we're now going to type in HikVision
Portal followed by what region you are from, so if you're from the USA type in HikVision
Portal USA, or UK, or Europe for example. So in my case it's HikVision Portal UK. You're
then going to tap on the top link, you're then going to tap on portal, product firmware,
HikVision, we've then got front ends and back ends, back ends are your NVRs and DVRs, front
ends are your IP cameras, so go to back ends. Then whether you've got a DVR click on that
or NVR for us. We're then going to match our model number that we've taken note of to one
of these here the most common ones are your 76 NI-K series in my case it was a 76 NI-I
series so we're going to click on that and you can see all of the different firmware
versions, the latest one is the 4.50 for this specific NVR. You're going to tap on the firmware
that you want and this is your download file here so I'm just going to tap on that and
now it's come up at the bottom "do you want to open or save" I'm going to click on save
as and I'm going to save it to my desktop click save and then that will download once
it has finished downloading you're going to open up that file and we're going to unzip
it. Simply just drag the digicap file into that folder let me just delete that existing
file there we are so drag and drop that file you don't have to use WinRar on windows 10
now you can just do it automatically with the software built in. Now lets go back onto
our NVRs webpage and see where it says upgrade down here you're going to click on browse
and you're going to find that file that we just saved and unzipped so mine was on my
desktop it was saved under fw, digicap that's been opened and then you're just going to
click on upgrade and the upgrade process will begin however in my case my NVR is already
on that firmware lets see what happens. The device will automatically reboot after the
update has completed, in this case it will probably fail. This is the "loading" bar you'll
get on your screen if you get any error codes whatsoever just make sure that you've downloaded
the correct version of firmware make sure it's not for a different NVR to yours. Now
you can see my NVR is rebooting and the latest firmware will be applied, it shouldn't take
any more than a minute for the process to complete so yeah that is pretty much it for
how to update a NVR or DVR. Now if you've got an IP system and want to update your individual
camera firmware for each camera on your NVRs web interface page go to configuration go
to system go to camera management go to IP camera and now you should see a list of blue
links on the right hand side if you don't see any blue links just quickly you'll have
to enable virtual host to do this go to network on the left hand side go to advanced settings
go to other at the top and just tick to enable virtual host and click on save then just head
back to system back to camera management and now just click on the first camera link that
you want to update the firmware for so in my case I'm just going to update my decking
camera so this will load the cameras individual web interface page, you're simply just going
to login again with the same details. Then click on configuration at the top click on
system settings on the left hand side if it's not already so here once again you can see
model model number right here take note of that model number and we're going to go back
onto the HikVision Portal, going to click on HikVision here and we're going to want
to go to Front Ends this time as it's an IP camera it's at the front of the system. We're
going to go to IP Camera, if you want to update an IP PTZ you're going to click on this link
here and once again we're going to find our camera within this list here it can be quite
confusing as you can see it's all sort of gibberish but you will get used to it. So
mine was a 2xx6G1 lets double check that 2CD2346G1 so
you're going to click on the link that you want this is the latest firmware however my
camera is already on this 5.6.0 as you can see here but just for demonstration purposes
you're going to click on the download link here you're then going to save that file so
save as in that same folder here however I'm going to create a new folder and call it IPC
Firmware just so that I don't get muddled up between the NVR firmware and the IP Camera
firmware, save. Once it's finished open the folder you're going to open the compressed
file and you're then going to drag your digicap file into that folder like so then you're
going to jump back onto your IP cameras web interface page you're going to go down to
maintenance on the left hand side and then at the bottom here upgrade you're going to
browse you're going to find that file that we just downloaded so mine was on the desktop
under firmware under IPC firmware digicap.dav open and then just tap on upgrade device will
reboot after upgrade ok and that is literally all there is to it guys just repeat the process
for any other cameras that you've got connected again just make sure you download the correct
firmware for your specific camera some camera models may differ but yeah that is pretty
much it guys if you need any further help just drop me a comment down below remember
to like share and subscribe and I'll see you in the next video take care bye bye.