theunoticeable

SO I have this DVR box. Completely Unbranded. The front panel states "Digital Video Recording System" - Lots of help there. The device itself works fine, I can hook camera's up the to available BNC connections in the back and they display on screen (through VGA out). However! I cannot do anything else. Attaching a mouse to the USB port gives me a cursor. Moving the cursor or tapping a button brings up a password dialogue. I have no idea what the admin password is. When connected to my LAN, it shows up on my router as "ITX Security". I have googled this, but emails to the company bring no responses or send fail messages. The unit has ONE sticker. It shows a model number of "SC-412-HVEM". I have googled this. Zero. Nothing. No love. So I officially own a DVR box that doesn't exist. Front of Unit: Rear of Unit: Internals: Sticker: If anyone knows something that I don't know, Please fill me in. I believe this is a non branded box sold as a kit with four cameras. The only other information I could find was someone else on this forum that had reset his ITX box with some button combos. Mine doesn't have buttons, except for a small button on the inside of the unit. Pressing this button simply resets the unit....Pushing this button while it is off does nothing. Holding it down while it is off, on, or while being turned on, does nothing. How do I make it go? **slight update - I found it on an Australian security site: http://www.aap.co.nz/shop/CCTV/ANALOGUE+RANGE/ITX+DVR-4+OD+KIT.html Doesn't give any information, but I have enquired on the website. Maybe I'll get a reply? probably not. Thanks.

Over two years later I have come to reply! I did manage to get into the unit. I plugged in a mouse and keyboard and used the reset button to reset the unit. Then I logged in with the default admin/12345 and it worked perfectly fine until I switched all of my cameras to updated wireless ones....Probably the beginning of 2020. IN retrospect, what a piece of garbage.

Are you kidding me? Do you comprehend the English language? This thing is four years old. Not eight. Not ten. There's no terabyte IDE drives. It's a SATA drive. And the manufactures firmware is designed for this machine. Please stop replying thanks.

It is not RF It is IR! That's what I meant. Found my harmony remote and am charging the battery at the moment. We'll see if she works.

I'm not here for a pissing match, gentlemen. Last time I checked, the title of this website was CCTV Forum - not BUY A NEW MACHINE forum. If you can't help, don't. It's a simple as that. Not one of us asked for your opinions.

It's clear that you know nothing about CCTV, or grammar and spelling for that matter. This unit was made in 2012. It's four years old, not ten. Even if it was ten, I'd still put the effort into it. Why? Because I don't want an overpriced digital online only piece of garbage. Stop peddling your "superior" product, thanks. The smart people will take it from here. CIF - Common Intermediate Format. Mainly used for analogue cameras and teleconferencing. This device is not CIF. It is H.264. And yes, it has network connectivity. Had you read a single line of this thread, you'd know that. And changing the "software", as you put it? Firmware is not software. Firmware is Firmware. If it was software, they'd call it that. It is entirely possible to create firmware for these machines. People have created some extremely useful firmware for old devices, ie; DD-WRT, Tomato, etc. But you wouldn't know that, because you're the guy that tosses money at a problem until geek squad comes over and fixes it for you. I wish you good day, sir. Please stop hijacking my thread with your useless nonsense. We were doing just fine without your input, thank you. I've received a message with some RF remote control codes to test out. Tonight I'll pull out the old harmony remote and see if I can't make it work. If I get in, I'll copy everything I can from the box and try to download a firmware file. I also have a couple of manufacture websites I'm going to try for a firmware file.

Is this what you're referring to? Appears to be a 4 pin connection of some kind, labelled J1 Could be UART. Could be pin headers for activating the decepticons. I have no idea. I do not have any serial devices BUT I do have an unused arduino that could become one? Also, I noticed this one - next to the hard drive: It's labelled PCI1. Not sure what in the world could be plugged into/onto there, maybe different versions of this board supports an add on of some kind? I wish I could find something - anything - about this mainboard. A data sheet would be lovely but even a PDF manual or specs would be nice. I've taken to searching chip by chip, found a few voltage regulators and the main video chip, which is a nextchip NVP1104B. Doesn't exactly give much of what I need to know, But I like this idea about being able to possibly access it via serial. Let me know.

Great! When are you sending me one? Absolutely. As high as a resolution as my LG G3 will allow:

You show me where I can purchase a network capable, 4 Channel 1tb DVR for $5 and I'll personally toss this thing into a river.

I'm not 100% sure it's an actual X server - or if that's just what FING decided to call it based on the open port. If it is, it's weird, and if not, what the heck is it? Nope. I have officially found zero information on this unit on the entire internet. Emails to ITX go unanswered, and emails to seller websites just tell me to contact the manufacture. All I have is a box that displays cameras. I can't do anything else with it. No password. I'd love it if I could telnet/ssh into this thing. That would at least give me something, but no, I've tried. All connections get "refused". Even anonymous. Nothing works. I have another DVR that I run four other cameras on, and you can't SSH into it either, but typing in the IP address of the machine brings up a web browser GUI that allows you to set settings and view cameras. When typing in the IP address of this box, I get 404 error, and typing in the IP plus the open port, I get "this connection is restricted" I'm absolutely comfortable with hardware. Let me know what you'd like to see up close, the unit is open and ready for tinkering. I'm going to attempt to configure a harmony remote to operate this machine, see what that does - if anything.

Unfortunately no, I do not have a remote. However, I am able to emulate a remote with an expensive universal harmony remote that I have. Was it a dedicated reset button or a key combination to reset the system, do you know?

Thanks for the reply, But I can't even try your suggestion. The login screen (see pictures above) does not allow me to change "USER", in that ADMIN is the only user available. And forget typing anything in a non-typable field. I'd try to telnet or SSH, but when attempting, I get "Connection refused" Errors. FTP is a no-go as well. I scanned for services using FING, screenshots below: Results from FING - a network scanner. Shows up as ITX security, as stated. Results from Scanning Services. One service - Port 6000 - An X-window Server. Don't know what to use or how to access this. I have tried typing the address into a web browser (firefox and safari) as both simple IP (192.168.0.111) and including server port (192.168.0.111:6000) I get a message stating "This address is restricted" following this: "This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection." Anyone have any ideas on how to possibly access this X server, and if so, from what? and where? Thanks for the suggestions so far, everyone.

Unfortunately, nope. I've tried the following default passwords: 1234 123456 12345678 87654321 0000 000000 And so on. These default password DO NOT work. Even after removing internal battery and pressing the reset button. I am looking for a way to reset back to a default password.

Thanks for the reply! The one and only sticker on this thing proudly states "MADE IN KOREA" The device, when viewed on my router, displays itself as "ITX Security". Here are pictures after using the internal 'reset' button (pressing this button when the device is already on, device reboots with one audible beep) First screen pops up - Loading: Finishes loading, cameras come into view, another popup appears to be detecting drives attached: After 30 seconds, "recovery ..." message appears: Recovery Complete, IP address is given (when connected to my LAN) Bottom menu appears: And finally, with USB mouse plugged in, cursor appears. Pressing or moving the cursor brings up LOGIN screen: There is a small disk battery on the inside of the unit. I have removed this battery and left it out for days, I have reset the unit without the battery. I have tried everything. Nothing changes, this startup sequence stays the same.