IP2M-841B, IP2M-841W and IP2M-841S V1 & V2 Firmware confusion

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HikwQedxw
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IP2M-841B, IP2M-841W and IP2M-841S V1 & V2 Firmware confusion

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I have a pair of IP2M-841W V2's that are currently running firmware version - "V2.420.AC00.18.R, Build Date: 2020-10-30"

Since the 'Check Version' button on the upgrade tab of the camera setup page doesn't work. (I'll leave that discussion for a different post.)
I manually check for updates and discovered the latest official firmware for these cameras is listed as "V2.420.AC00.18.R, Build Date: 2020-03-30" which is older than the one I am currently using.

I have searched the forum rather thoroughly and found no mention of the 10/30/2020 build date.
Did I miss something saying not to use the 10/30/2020 build? Should I roll back to the 03/30/2020 build?

I downloaded "Amcrest_IPC-AWXX_Eng_N_AMCREST_V2.420.AC00.18.R.20201030.bin" on 10/4/2021.
Today (01/12/2022) the latest version file available is "Amcrest_IPC-AWXX_Eng_N_AMCREST_V2.420.AC00.18.R.20200330.bin"

Any comments or suggestions? Thank you.
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Re: IP2M-841B, IP2M-841W and IP2M-841S V1 & V2 Firmware confusion

Post by Revo2Maxx »

Darn didn't get that one lol.. Anyway I am going to guess that there was a Security issue with the release or something that wasn't working well enough to keep it on as last known stable JS version...

About the Button, Last I heard and I am sure that will change at some point, however on the Button that is for older FW pre 2019 and is designed to have the end users upgrade the cameras to the last known stable version from a stand point of the camera being bought new. It will have what I call a Production FW installed. That is last good version before the Amcrest release of the last stable. SO like if you were to buy a new OS 841 from lets say 2016 it might have release 9 and the last stable is 11. However lets say you bought an older v1 that might have like one of mine came with 1 loaded and I can't remember if it made me do a middle update before doing the 11 So any button pressing of the cameras with 2019 or newer FW will do nothing all FW will have to come off the Website.

About the 10 2020 I didn't get that one to play around with. Looking at the FW pages it is a Mess. They have the V3 showing it has the same FW as the v1 and 2 and it don't and there are some that are still showing older 2020 FW on the left as newest offered however there is 2021 FW in the DL spot and some people might not look past the listed FW so if it is showing 2020 and they already have that one if they don't hover over the DL file they might not even know there is newer.
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