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Hanwha Wisenet default password, username, and IP address
There is no Wisenet default password. The admin account, where admin and 4321 really apply, the 192.168.1.100 default IP, and how to reset a Wisenet camera.
2026-09-28
There is no Wisenet default password. Current Hanwha Wisenet cameras ship with no initial password at all: the administrator account is named admin, and you set its password the first time you open the camera’s web interface. That answers the question for any camera in the current A, Q, X, P, or T series.
Two other answers circulate, and both are real in a narrower sense than the lists suggest. The pairing admin and 4321 is a genuine Hanwha default, for discontinued Samsung Techwin recorders rather than cameras. The default IP address, 192.168.1.100, is genuine too, but a camera fresh out of the box is set to DHCP and on most networks it will not be sitting at that address. This post covers all three, the reset procedure, and what a reset takes with it.
What the default actually is
Hanwha Vision states the policy directly, under the heading “No initial password”: its products ship without one, and the user sets their own the first time the product interface is opened. Nothing is printed on the label. There is no factory credential to look up because none exists until someone creates it.
The username is fixed. On current Wisenet cameras the administrator account is admin, and the first-access step asks only for the password. That matters when a login fails: if a known password is being rejected for an account named anything other than admin, check the username before you touch anything else.
The per-model version of this answer across Hanwha, Axis, and Bosch is in the camera default passwords by model reference.
Where admin and 4321 come from
Hanwha documents admin / 4321 in the discontinued products section of its support portal, for end-of-support Samsung Techwin recorders. The factory default procedure for the SHR recorder series lists it, and the password reset for older Samsung DVRs returns the ID and password to admin / 4321 without deleting the recordings.
| Device | Username | Password | Where it is documented |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current Wisenet cameras (A, Q, X, P, T series) | admin | None until you set one at first access | Hanwha Vision “No initial password” policy |
| End-of-support Samsung Techwin recorders (SHR series, older Samsung DVRs) | admin | 4321 | Hanwha support portal, discontinued products |
The value on the circulating lists is accurate for the recorders it came from. The lists attach it to cameras, which never shipped with it. A technician who types 4321 into a current Wisenet camera is using a recorder credential on a device that has no factory password. On an old Samsung DVR it is worth trying. On a camera, the only credential is the one someone set.
Hanwha default IP address
The Hanwha default IP address is 192.168.1.100, and a new camera ships in DHCP mode, so on a network with a DHCP server it takes an assigned address and never uses the default. Hanwha’s own networking guidance says exactly that: all current Hanwha IP cameras ship with a default IP of 192.168.1.100 but are set to DHCP mode.
In practice the default applies in one situation: a bench or an isolated network with no DHCP server, including right after a factory reset on that kind of network. Everywhere else, browsing to 192.168.1.100 finds nothing, while the camera works fine at whatever address the DHCP server handed it. Look that address up in the DHCP server’s leases, or find the camera with Hanwha’s Device Manager utility, rather than guessing.
On a bench with no DHCP, your own interface needs an address in the 192.168.1.x range to reach the camera. That catches people on mixed fleets, because the fallback addresses sit on different subnets:
| Camera | Default address when no DHCP server answers |
|---|---|
| Hanwha Wisenet | 192.168.1.100 |
| Axis, AXIS OS earlier than 11.8 | 192.168.0.90 |
| Axis, AXIS OS 11.8 and later | A link-local address, 169.254.X.X |
A laptop set up for a bench of older Axis cameras on 192.168.0.x will not reach a Hanwha camera at 192.168.1.100, and neither setup reaches a current Axis camera on link-local. The Axis side of this, including why older guides now point at an empty address, is in the Axis camera default password, username, and IP address post.
To give a Wisenet camera a fixed address once you are logged in, the setting is under Settings > Basic > IP & Port in the web interface: change the IP type from DHCP to Manual and apply.
How to reset a Hanwha Wisenet camera
A factory reset is the only way back into a camera whose admin password nobody knows. Hanwha’s reset procedure for most cameras:
- With the camera powered on and fully booted, press and hold the RESET button for 5 seconds. Do not do it during bootup. The button is recessed and blue or white, and its location varies by model, so check the model’s manual if you cannot find it.
- Release the button. The camera reboots on its own.
- Find the camera again. The reset returns its address to 192.168.1.100, and if a DHCP server is present it takes an assigned address instead.
- Browse to the camera and set a new admin password at the first-access prompt.
- Log in with the new credential and rebuild the configuration.
If you can still log in and only want to clear bad settings, Hanwha documents a reset from the web interface instead. Without the credential, the physical button is the only path.
What a reset takes with it
Hanwha is explicit that the button wipes all information, and says to use it only when no other option exists. Recordings on the camera’s microSD card survive. Everything else returns to factory state, and three consequences cost more than the password:
- The address. A camera that held a static address comes back on DHCP or at 192.168.1.100, so the recording system loses it until someone finds it and sets the address again.
- Integrations. Third-party applications installed through the Open Platform section are removed, and the interfaces other systems use to reach the camera are switched off, so the recording system has to be reconnected by hand.
- Certificates and time. The device certificate and the time configuration go with the rest of the settings, so anything that depended on either has to be put back.
The password comes back as a first-access prompt, which is the easy part. The address, the integrations, and the certificate are what turn a five-second button press into a site visit.
Doing this across 500 cameras
At one camera, a reset is a button press and an afternoon of reconfiguration. Across a fleet, the harder problem is knowing where you stand before anyone presses anything: which cameras have an admin password someone recorded, which still carry a credential set by an installer who has since left, and which were reset last month and never fully reconnected. That state usually lives in spreadsheets and memory, and both drift.
Changing admin passwords across hundreds of Wisenet cameras has its own failure mode, covered in how to rotate camera passwords without breaking your VMS: the VMS and every integration hold a copy of the credential, and changing it on the camera alone leaves them presenting a password that no longer exists.
MentatNOC tracks each camera’s credential and certificate state continuously rather than at ticket time, and rotation runs in staged waves that never break monitoring. The write-side detail is on the firmware, password, and certificate actions page, and you can see it end to end in a live platform demo.
There is no Wisenet default password to find. There is an admin account someone set, a recorder credential that never applied to cameras, and a default address most cameras never use.