Mike's Realm

My DuoProx II cards came in today, they are 125mhz RF cards and magstripe…Not sure I’ll ever use the magstripe but figured why not spend the extra $0.25 a card.  The read range is good about 4″-5″ and it reads just fine through my wallet at about 3″.  Keyfobs are in the mail and should be here soon I hope…

So I got 3 NEW keyfobs for about 13 shipped on ebay.  I rush to add them to my system, and for some reason they don’t get registered by my access panel… The HID reader reads them just fine, so they work.  Just something is up with the panel, I know it has to do with the way it interperates the card/keyfob # or some junk, these are 6 digit keyfobs, the cards I’ve programmed have all been 5 digit…So off to find another auction…

So I got a pair of HID Readers today, MiniProx’s I expected them to be smaller but oh well, they work nice…  I mounted one up for the garage door outside properly, and used a terminal block to make the connections because it only has a 18″ pigtail.  I used STP Cat5 because honeywell/northern computers recommends sheilded cable, and STP Cat5 was lying around on a workbench…

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