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General_IPC-HX5XXX-Volt_MultiLang_PN_Stream3_V2.840.0000000.30.R.250227.bin

EmpireTech and Montavue firmware released Feb 27, 2025. May work with 252 devices, including IPC-HCBW8442P, IPC-HDB5243E-ZYH-27135, IPC-HDBW4243R-AS.

Released
Feb 27, 2025
Version
V2.840.0000000.30.R
Size
88.8 MB
Hardware
252 devices

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MD5
98db565bcc6c3000422ce6218e782f95
SHA-256
25c92e9a91a5200de302fc876e51505a4b7da6a466d852b7073d5997f66361ec
Changelog
Release notes

Where it's published

Compatible hardware

Hardware IDs this firmware's installer accepts (252 devices).

Where these IDs come from
  • hwid: the device's own hardware check list, 252 IDs
  • Install: the installer's device list (board families), 1 ID, vendor General (not counted: a more specific list exists)
  • check.img: the device's own hardware check list, 252 IDs

Technical details

Read from inside the firmware (dahua package (zip variant)).

SoC
HiSilicon Hi3516CV500
Architecture
arm
OEM build
General
Flash
128.0 MB
Image dates
Feb 27, 2025
Security
Signed, encrypted, security baseline V2.3
Language & video
English by default · 23 languages · PAL
Supported languages (23)

English, TradChinese, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, French, German, Portugal, Turkey, Poland, Romanian, Hungarian, Korean, Czechish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Arabic, SpanishEU, Hebrew, Thai, Indonesia

Flash layout: 16 partitions, 8 written by this firmware

From the firmware's partition table (partitionV2.txt).

PartitionStartEndSizeImageFilesystemBuilt
mini-Boot0x00x1000001.0 MBnot written——
U-Boot0x2000000x3000001.0 MBdhboot.bin.img—2025-02-27
updateflag0x3000000x4000001.0 MBnot written——
hwid0x4000000x480000512.0 KBnot written——
config0x4800000xa800006.0 MBnot writtenubi—
backup0xa800000x10800006.0 MBnot writtenubi—
syslog0x10800000x16800006.0 MBnot writtenubi—
partition(ro)0x16800000x1700000512.0 KBpartition-x.cramfs.imgcramfs2025-02-27
dgs0x17000000x18000001.0 MBnot written——
kernel_min0x18000000x1a000002.0 MBkernel_min.img—2025-02-27
romfs_min(ro)0x1a000000x1e800004.5 MBromfs_min-x.squashfs.imgsquashfs2025-02-27
bakpart(ro)0x1e800000x1f00000512.0 KBpartition-x-bak.cramfs.imgcramfs2025-02-27
appdata0x1f000000x25000006.0 MBnot writtenubi—
Kernel0x25000000x29000004.0 MBkernel.img—2025-02-27
romfs(ro)0x29000000x520000041.0 MBromfs-x.squashfs.imgsquashfs2025-02-27
firmware(ro)0x52000000x800000046.0 MBfirmware-x.squashfs.imgsquashfs2025-02-27

About the security baseline: firmware with a higher security baseline can stop a device going back to older firmware. A device already on a higher baseline than V2.3 may refuse this file, and after installing it you may not be able to downgrade to firmware with a lower baseline.

Other files for much of the same hardware, from any vendor.