ZKTime Tutorials

  How to reset / unlock ZKTeco Biometric device from Admin Affirm Password using the Tamper button ZKTeco Access Control and Attendance devices are taking a large space among other access control brands, because there are easy to install and use, and also thanks to their good quality/price advantage. Anyway, when you install a new ZKTeco device you need to protect its menu access by an Administrator password (known as Supervisor ), so that only authorized persons can change and adjust the device settings. However, when the administrator is gone without leaving the information about how to open the ZKTeco device's menu, this can be a big problem for you if you are the new "Admin". So when you press the menu button you will get the famous message on the device screen : Admin Affirm . In a previous post I have explained how to unlock ZKTeco Device from Admin with two different ways (which can work with a lot of ZKTeco models) :  Using Attendance Management software over t

ZKTime.Net 3.x.x License expired...Not anymore (The best solution for all versions) The attendance management software ZKTime.Net is still taking place amoung ZKTeco softwares to manage biometric devices for attendance and access control purposes. However, the software users find themselves stuck in using it after the first 3 months trial version unless they buy a valid license to avoid losing their attendance data. But since not all of those users know this information and didn't take this point on their company's budget (or their own). So this side of people prefer to find "another way" to continue using ZKTime.Net without buying a license. And this is the main goal of this post, to help you (my dear reader) and other people to keep their software in action. If you want to know how to get rid of ZKTime.Net license expiration message, i suggest you to read and follow the instructions as described below. PS : This is the best solution to this problem so far and it'

Reset ZK Attendance Management Software Admin Password INTRODUCTION : ZKTeco (ZKT) Attendance Management Program (or zktime 5.0) is the classical software for managing biometric and attendance devices of the famous manufacturer ZKTeco. Until today so many people (including me) are still using it because it's easy to maniuplate in the eyes of the customers (Boss, HR Manager, Secretary...etc) By default when you run this software it doesn't ask for login or password, so in order to prevent any malicious actions by strangers (or intruders from the company itself!!), you can configure an "administrator" to secure the attendance management program. And so everytime the customer (the user) runs the software it will ask for login and password to have access to it. HERE IS THE PROBLEM : But sometimes - for some reasons - you (the software admin) may forget these credentials (login & password) and cannot open the attendance management program anymore. This issue can happen

How to wire a ZKTeco Access Control device with the door Have you ever wondered how can you open the door by using your fingerprint or your ID Card? Do you have an installation where you need to "wire" (connect) a ZKTeco device to open a door ?  All right then... Stop looking over the forums and websites ! because here you'll find all the information you have been searching. About ZKTeco devices : There are two categories of functions that ZKTeco devices can provide: Attendance Management and Access Control. Attendance Management device : Only allows people to register their presence by check-in / check-out logs within the day. Those logs can be downloaded to a software to generate a daily/monthly attendance reports. Access Control device : does the same work as an Attendance Management device, and also provides the ability to open a door when a registred person confirms his/her identity using fingerprint or ID Card on this device. The purpose of this article is to show

ZKTime.Net 3.0 : Administrator Password Recovery When we install the software ZKTime.Net 3.0 on our computer, the program asks us to create an admin user with password to secure the access to the software. But as human we may often forget this password and we are stuck in the situation that we can't no longer open our software. Sometimes the person in charge has resigned without leaving any information about the software (Ohh my God !!) In this tutorial, i'm going to show you how you can easily sovle this problem without losing your data (attendance logs, employee list, shifts configuration ...) PS : this solution is not working for ZKTime.Net 3.3 because username and password are encrypted in this version. What do you need ? Full access to the computer where ZKTime.Net 3.0 is installed SQLite Database tool. The best and easiest one is DB Browser for SQLite. Follow the steps below to recover ZKTime.Net 3.0 Password : 1- Dowload the tool  DB Browser for SQLite from the official

 Reset/Eliminate Admin Affirm Password from ZKTeco biometric machine (ALL POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS) Scenario introduction : When you install a new ZKTeco Attendance device, register the users and set all the settings (network connection, date & time adjustment...) this device remain open for everyone who wants to access its main menu and change these settings. To prevent the device data from being modified by an unauthorized person, the installer must set an Admininstator for it. This Administrator can be one of the employees such as the HR Manager, the Attendance Manager, in this case the administrator can open the device menu with his fingerprint/ID Card,  it can be an independent user account (not an employee) and so to access the menu , it must be done with an ID and password. The thing is when the Administrator is not longer working for the company (he resigned or change his position or fired), the new attendance manager find himself/herself stuck with a locked device with no inform