Stuck on legacy Cisco Codec Plus / Precision 60 upgrade – Need a hand finding a CE9 firmware package (halleyce9)
Hey everyone,
I’m trying to revive a legacy standalone setup with a Cisco Codec Plus and a Precision 60 camera. Right now, the camera won't update because the codec is pointing to a dead legacy server domain (management.join.vc) and throwing a Failed to connect / No route to host error.
I need to flash it locally over the web GUI to fix this, but I'm completely stuck trying to source the firmware package.
I’ve already exhausted the usual routes:
official cisco route - completely blocked - I don't have an active SmartNet contract, and Cisco's registration portal keeps throwing a "server error" and rejecting my personal email domain anyway
"index of" search - spent hours looking for halleyce9_15 or s53200ce9 PKG/COP files on open indices, but the mirrors I found are either dead or taken down
cloud/DevNet sandboxes are retired, so I can't spin up a quick Webex Control Hub trial org to let it auto-provision over the internet.
Does anyone happen to have a stable CE9 bundle (ideally halleyce9_15_3_26.pkg or the cmterm-synergy-ce9 COP file) sitting in their deployment archives that they could drop into a temporary Google Drive or Dropbox link?
Any pointers appreciated!
--- UPDATE ---
I forgot to mention that the whole reason I bought the codec is to get these cameras (got 3, couldn't help myself) to fully work standalone - full PTZ, exposure and other parameters control. Plan is to capture and reverse-engineer the codec-camera IP communication
--- UPDATE - Solved ---
When I initially set up the camera (wizard) provisioning was switched to some custom mode (codec tried to download the firmware from admin.vc or similar address). I did a lot of stuff at once, so I am not sure if provisioning config was enough:
>!Generally I've experimented with different provisioning configurations, and I think switching to webex integration (not webex edge/iot) has helped. I also created a free normal (not control hub) webex account and while clicking through found "devices" section in settings. It has an option to activate a device which generates the standard activation code. I did not have high hopes, but strangely the codec accepted the code happily! At some point codec upgrade started installing. Some time later the camera got silently upgraded to the same version (I didn't even notice at first because I expected CE camera firmware, but it has HC prefix with the following version number the same as codec software).!<