Hi all,
I've been lurking around these forums for a few days now, trying to find out just how to flash firmware to my Vantrue X3, an A12-based camera.
A few days ago, I managed to telnet into the camera by connecting to the AP being broadcast by the camera. I tinkered around with the /pref/wifi.conf file and managed to get it into STA mode, which was cool. Then, every few boots, the thing would panic and revert its WiFi settings back to AP mode.
In order to prevent this, I overwrote every wifi.conf file in the filesystem with my modified version, in order to ensure it'd always connect in STA mode. In doing so, it completely lost its ability to turn on the WiFi at all, so now I can't connect to it in any way (except for Mass Storage mode).
I have attempted to flash the firmware found on the Vantrue website, placing the AmbaBootFW.bin and AmbaSysFW.bin files onto a freshly formatted FAT32/ExFAT card, and rebooted the camera - at no point does it appear to try to do a firmware update.
I've also attempted to place a wifi_supplicant.conf file and a wifi.conf file in the root of the card, as well as within the MISC directory, to no avail. I've also attempted to upload firmware files to the camera in recovery mode, again to no avail.
Anybody have an idea how I could accomplish either a) getting access to the Linux filesystem without WiFi, or b) getting it connected to WiFi again, or c) flashing the firmware?
Thanks!
I've been lurking around these forums for a few days now, trying to find out just how to flash firmware to my Vantrue X3, an A12-based camera.
A few days ago, I managed to telnet into the camera by connecting to the AP being broadcast by the camera. I tinkered around with the /pref/wifi.conf file and managed to get it into STA mode, which was cool. Then, every few boots, the thing would panic and revert its WiFi settings back to AP mode.
In order to prevent this, I overwrote every wifi.conf file in the filesystem with my modified version, in order to ensure it'd always connect in STA mode. In doing so, it completely lost its ability to turn on the WiFi at all, so now I can't connect to it in any way (except for Mass Storage mode).
I have attempted to flash the firmware found on the Vantrue website, placing the AmbaBootFW.bin and AmbaSysFW.bin files onto a freshly formatted FAT32/ExFAT card, and rebooted the camera - at no point does it appear to try to do a firmware update.
I've also attempted to place a wifi_supplicant.conf file and a wifi.conf file in the root of the card, as well as within the MISC directory, to no avail. I've also attempted to upload firmware files to the camera in recovery mode, again to no avail.
Anybody have an idea how I could accomplish either a) getting access to the Linux filesystem without WiFi, or b) getting it connected to WiFi again, or c) flashing the firmware?
Thanks!
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