I have been working on this CCTV system made by Technomate over the last few days, I got it with a duff power brick, the parts required to repair it would have to come from China and not only expensive, but take simply ages to arrive, so I purchased a new one from Amazon. The consol was drive less, so I fitted a salvage unit from an old sky + satellite box, cleaned up the 4 cameras and plugged them into the consol and tada they all work, but I was unable to get into the menus to set the parameters to make the system record anything.
It kept asking for a password, even though the memory retention battery was dead and the date and time was reset to 1970
I went through all the normal default passwords that most things come with, such "0000", "1234" and "admin" etc, all were rejected. The user manual makes zero reference to any such password, I was beginning to pull what little hair I have left, out of my head
I even emailed the person who I got the system from to if they could remember what the password was, no reply has been received.
In desperation, I searched for CCTV forums and found one that allowed to me to be a guest on it, so I searched for passwords for my system and found that someone else asked the same question and had been resolved. I looked at the answer, and I was almost there before. Apparently the default one is "123456", so I typed that in and yes, it works, I appear to have a fully working 4 channel CCTV system with full nighttime capabilities. The nighttime vision is almost as good as daytime ones, apart from the images are black and white instead of full colour.
Next to figure out how the alarm system functions and how to use it, as according to some blurp I have read, the system can be setup to automatically wake up on one or more cameras seeing some movement, and switch the system into recording mode so that the hard drive does get rammed full in the course of a normal day, instead it will just record when something is being detected, handy that.
Now to repair the Cat cables that came with the system, as the excess length was simply chopped off and a new RJ45 fitted to the installed cables and I have the remains stuffed in the box that the system came in. How did I test the system I hear you all cry, I used my expensive Ethernet patch cables that I need for my home network.