I'm trying to track down the latest firmware for my IP8M-T2599EW cameras but coming up empty looking around for it. One of my cameras is on V2.800.00AC001.0.R, Build Date: 2020-09-04 while the other is on V2.800.00AC000.0.R, Build Date: 2020-03-16
Trying to get them both together on whatever is newest.
Thanks!
IP8M-T2599EW Firmware needed
Re: IP8M-T2599EW Firmware needed
Hello and Welcome to the Forum..
So I am not sure how it works with the 2020+ FW. I am not sure if it works like it did with the older FW where you could put in good info in the Network tab with a good IP, good Subnet and gateway and using 8.8.8.8 for DNS and 8.8.4.4 for DNS2. Then going to the update tab and pressing the get firmware while it hardly ever give it right away it normally would after the next log in.. Now in 2019 the FW changed over to JS type FW and I am not sure if it works this way today or not.. If it does that is something to try...
Then next here is another thing that might have happen.. One if a Camera has 9 2020 FW that is Amcrest and the older FW was found to be the Stable Version then one that had a newer FW might have been updated at the time that it was online and sadly there was something that was found to be a Security Risk and the FW was taken down before to many cameras could have been updated with FW that was not stable for some reason or another...
Also some people have been updating cameras with NON Amcrest FW and if your camera with a new FW has no Amcrest logo on the Webpage when you access the WebUI then it has a NON supported FW that was Flashed and now would make the camera a non brand camera and Amcrest would no longer support it...
If it is still with Amcrest logo then as I said it might have been pulled to keep others from upgrading to a version that isn't as stable as the one before...
So I am not sure how it works with the 2020+ FW. I am not sure if it works like it did with the older FW where you could put in good info in the Network tab with a good IP, good Subnet and gateway and using 8.8.8.8 for DNS and 8.8.4.4 for DNS2. Then going to the update tab and pressing the get firmware while it hardly ever give it right away it normally would after the next log in.. Now in 2019 the FW changed over to JS type FW and I am not sure if it works this way today or not.. If it does that is something to try...
Then next here is another thing that might have happen.. One if a Camera has 9 2020 FW that is Amcrest and the older FW was found to be the Stable Version then one that had a newer FW might have been updated at the time that it was online and sadly there was something that was found to be a Security Risk and the FW was taken down before to many cameras could have been updated with FW that was not stable for some reason or another...
Also some people have been updating cameras with NON Amcrest FW and if your camera with a new FW has no Amcrest logo on the Webpage when you access the WebUI then it has a NON supported FW that was Flashed and now would make the camera a non brand camera and Amcrest would no longer support it...
If it is still with Amcrest logo then as I said it might have been pulled to keep others from upgrading to a version that isn't as stable as the one before...
Be Safe.
Re: IP8M-T2599EW Firmware needed
The closest I see on https://amcrest.com/firmwaredownloads is for the IPM8-T2499EW(https://sup-files.s3.us-east-2.amazonaw ... 201022.bin). This has a date of 10-22-20 and a version of V2.622.00AC000.0.R which lacks that ".800" string, so perhaps it doesn't take the same unlike my IP8M-MB2546EW & IP8M-2496EW.