Hikvision DS-2CD2332-I, V5.3.0 crashing zoneminder, 5.2 ok

[Linwood 0]

I bought 5 of the DS-2CD2332-I one at a time. A couple were Chinese and I learned the "do not upgrade" story, 3 were US retail versions, but I left them at 5.2.

 

I just received another US version and it is running version 5.3.0.

 

Unlike the other 5 (plus one bullet version), I cannot get this one to work at all with ZoneMinder, the capture daemon crashes, despite using approximately the same setup. The only difference I can see besides the firmware version is I had to change the password -- but the others are using the default (ok, once I get it all set would change them anyway, but it's an internal network with no outside access).

 

I can play with VLC from it, and the codec information display there shows the same as 5.2.x.

 

I've tried two different zoneminder systems (I had a test server set up also). I've tried (inside of zoneminder) all three mechanisms of connection, ffmpeg, remote and lavc; and all crash.

 

SOMETHING has changed.

 

Two questions (at least).

 

I read you cannot downgrade -- is that correct, even with a retail US version of the camera?

 

And does anyone know of anything in setup that would be different I may be missing, that might cause this? Any suggestions other than putting it in a box and sending it back? (But I may well get another of the same version).

[Linwood 0]

Never mind -- this was just bad luck. I ran out of shared memory with the 7th camera, and did not notice. I just assumed it was the camera firmware since it was a new addition. I even ran it on a test system in a VM -- but I had exactly the same memory there, so exactly the same problem.