What started as an update from MyDLink Lite to MyDlink app, turned into a 5-hout upgrade nightmare.
First the app migrated my configured cameras. So far so good. Next it suggested upgrading the firmware on DCS-960L and DCS-5050L (the latter is a different story). The only options were to upgrade or do it later. How bad can it be? After all, the developers must have improved their skills over the past years and started introducing fewer bugs? Wrong.
After the upgrade I could not longer connect to the camera's web interface on HTTP with custom port set to 8100, DCS-100 stopped recording. Providing just the IP address of the camera redirected me to the HTTPS protocol. So far so good. I wen to Network settings and disabled HTTPS (as well as Bonjour and UPNP, which were disabled before). Saved. Still can't access on 8100 that was still defined as the port in the settings, but port 80 brought me to the web interface. Set the port to 80, saved, then to 8100, saved. This time I could not access the camera on either port. So only factory reset was left as an option.
After Factory reset, I went the app-setup path. Bummer. It configured everything gine, but also changed the default blank password to something random, without giving me the oprtion to set the password in the app! Web interface is still out of reach. Another Factory reset.
This time, I connected using WPS. Bingo. Then I downgraded the firmware to 1.06 (I previously had 1.04) and set port to 8100. It worked!
Upgraded to 1.07. Still worked.
Upgraded manually to 1.09. Broken. So the culprit is 1.09 Factory reset again and downgraded to 1.07. Now on to restore all the settings. Though I now notice regular drop-outs in connection, so I may downgrade even further.
PS: Why is Adobe Flash stiill required when it has been discontinued by Adobe?