(In case you are wondering, even after a few hard reset cycles the camera would still not accept a new admin password but that is no longer really a concern for me.)Īll this seems a bit insane. Given that the password is sent to the camera in plaintext, it's hardly likely the new one would remain secret for long. Their 'fix' was a promise to change the hard-written root pass in future firmware revisions.

Their attitude was basically that they had made a mistake in giving it to me- and not in having one in the first place. Either they were playing dumb and had to have it for the Powers That Be (as has been documented with other network products of similar origin), or else they truly think it's ok. I spent a few days going back and forth with them- explaining why, with these cameras in homes and businesses all over the world this was a Bad Thing. That's right, there's a root user, but you can't change the password. So they sent me the default, hard-written to firmware, root password for their cameras so I could just remotely log-in and hard-reset the camera over telnet. So I emailed the Chinese manufacturer, they asked for me to give their technician access to my computer via TeamViewer so he could reset it- I said that was not really an acceptable solution. No problem- went for the old reset button and… no reset button. I was willing to put up with the clunky ActiveX interface because I figured I'd only have to configure them once and would be viewing the video through the NAS/NVR interface.Įverything went fairly smoothly- I set the time, IP address, changed the password- and when I went to log back in it would not accept the same one copied and pasted.

They are branded as IPS, Uvision, Gsvision, Sunvision, Aote among others. I had my eye on some low cost, Chinese OEM IP cameras because they have good NAS compatibility (claimed Synology). Bit of a heads up about a bit of a disconcerting security issue in some ONVIF IP cameras.

Onvif default port