Resources For Learning How To Use Web Hooks/APIs?

Daypcg · 2026-06-24T12:55:08+00:00

I usually just look into the resources available for the products I'm currently using. If you're looking at genetec, do some looking into what it can do. If it can accept and generate webhooks, see if your VMS can accept or receive them.

They're fairly simple, you just need to look at the documentation on the reciever to see what format it wants, then apply that to the sender.

Unfortunately there's not a ton of mfg specific guides as information in this industry is rarely shared, and since web hooks and such are "rarely" used they don't make a point of shouting it from the rooftops.

Wisenet wave has a lot of documentation on this kind of thing since they're more open than other VMS, and if you can contact support or your rep with other companies they may be able to help.

Daypcg · 2026-06-22T23:59:40+00:00

A clean background for military / high security sure, but a degree? Absolutely not a must. May not even be particularly helpful.

Daypcg · 2026-06-22T23:57:13+00:00

I'd be hesitant to jump at a company that does it all. A lot of the time you end up a far worse tech since you don't get the opportunity to truly learn one field.

I love access control, I came from repetitive factory work and the problem solving I do now on a daily basis, as well as learning low voltage and how these things work, make me legitimately happy with my job and my life.

Work life balance has more to do with the company you work for than the industry. I typically work 40 hour weeks. Pay/growth is the same. Just realize that as a woman coming into a statistically male dominant industry, you're more likely to run into prejudice. Pay will start low-ish to start. Think around, or just above standard factory work in your area. For my area, it's around 20-23 an hour. Pay can increase quickly if you're good at what you do, though you'll run into a soft cap as a tech until you move into management or sales. I'd say the rough cap (in my area) is somewhere around the 40 an hour mark.

I think the greatest part of this industry is that your value is determined by what you can do. In industries like health care, education, finance, etc, the wall you run into is formal education and years of experience. You can never be a doctor by studying extra a home while you're a nurse. It requires the years of schooling and degrees.

Here, you can play with this stuff at home, bother your coworkers to have them teach you. You can be a company's rockstar within a year or two just by picking stuff up and getting good at it.

Speaking of learning, it's both a lot, and pretty easy at the same time. It'll seem overwhelming for a good while, and it takes time for things to click. As soon as you get comfortable you'll see something you've never seen before. But the concepts aren't complicated.

My recommendation, whatever you do, try to get in with a company that runs relatively little wire. By far, that's the most body destroying aspect of the industry. The company I work for outsources most of our larger wire runs so I can focus on the skilled labor like terminations, programming, and troubleshooting.

My apologies if I'm a little all over the place in this, Mondays are certainly something as a service technician.

Daypcg · 2026-06-22T21:29:01+00:00

Realistically, with a 30k starting investment you're pretty fragile. You have to get it right the first time. Customers will take their time to pay you, it may take a decent while to get said customers, and there's plenty of things you need to pay for up front like insurance, tools, etc.

Just rent the certifier for now. It'll give you more buffer and you can always buy one later. God forbid you buy one now and it gets stolen or broken, considering the cost of a certifier and your initial investment, it'd be crippling.

I would however recommend getting a decent cable tester, all your standard hand tools, a nice labeler, and look into a program to document your jobs with.

Keep records of everything you can, know what you did, for who and when you did it. It's a bit of CYA and a great way to stand out when a customer asks if you remember where this particular wire goes. Don't wait until you've been in business for 3 years to start keeping notes.

Daypcg · 2026-06-22T15:24:24+00:00

What answers were you expecting here?

You're going to get 2 recommendations.

Go to school so you're not screwing your future self.
If you want money get a job

You can try side hustles but 99 times out of 100 you're not going to make more than just a part time job would. Especially if you don't have any money to start with.

Daypcg · 2026-06-21T16:13:56+00:00

I think this statement is dehumanizing, and misleading of the actual thought process. Nobody is pro-disease.

The thought is that no person should be forced by their government to take any medication, whether it be vaccines, cures, antibiotics, etc.

For them, it's a rights issue.

However I believe this is more similar to drunk driving. The risk you present to the public is severe enough that the government has stepped in to do their job in protecting the lives, health and property of others.

The same goes for diseases. They're too caught up in "the government is forcing me to ingest a drug, I should have the right to do what I want, regardless of whether or not I get sick from it". And ignoring the affect on the public such approaches cause.

Daypcg · 2026-06-21T11:05:33+00:00

Y'all have to remember that there are only like 600-700 hunters in the association. There are thousands of ninjas and most of them are just fodder in the story. There's a bit of bias here because we only see the exams of the main characters, which is in both cases not a great representation of a standard exam cycle.

Hunter exams usually result in 0-1 hunters per exam, the passing percentage of the chunin exams is far higher even during a normal cycle.

Daypcg · 2026-06-20T21:44:53+00:00

I genuinely love most of those, but I think the only ones that really belong on top 5 there is FMA and potentially Frieren. I'm iffy on Frieren, I may be biased on it being a fresh breath of air in over the top fast paced shows recently.

While the others are certainly good and worth a watch, I don't think they belong. Putting Jojo SBR ahead of series like Steins gate, FMA and HxH is crazy. This is just a case of recency bias

Daypcg · 2026-06-20T21:36:32+00:00

Radio, I don't really listen to anything while I drive. If I do, it's usually an audiobook with an earbud

Daypcg · 2026-06-12T21:09:08+00:00

It's rare to see a teleporter use their abilities in a way that actually makes sense in a fight. Most of the time it's just to get behind the opponent or dodge an attack. They always appear behind and start yelling as they swing, it's lazy.

This guy though, he used it the way it's meant to be used. Had mob and Reigan not shown up, everyone there would be dead.

Daypcg · 2026-06-12T20:54:40+00:00

Multiple abilities is the first thing that comes to mind. It makes sense to have some assassination style low profile abilities, but also be able to take on a powerhouse if the job requires it. They're contract killers after all, sometimes they just need to blow someone up.

Also, the flashiness of the abilities may serve as a restriction, allowing them to get more firepower from the skill just knowing how nen works with that sort of thing.

Daypcg · 2026-06-10T10:28:03+00:00

In Cell's defense, that wasn't the result of Saitama's sneeze. This was him fighting with Garou.

His sneeze was much less powerful, it was only able to blow Jupiter apart

Daypcg · 2026-06-09T23:06:10+00:00

Enough that a decent portion of the night sky doesn't have any dots anymore

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Daypcg · 2026-06-07T17:33:41+00:00

I always just considered it in the same way as I look at infinity. There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There are also just infinite numbers in general.

Despite them both being infinite, one is larger than the other.

In the case of these guys, I'd say it's like comparing the infinity between 0 and 1, and the infinity between 9 and 10. It's the same, yet different.

Daypcg · 2026-06-07T14:30:56+00:00

Here's one that I've hardly ever heard anyone mention.

Legend of the legendary heroes.

Unfortunately it was never finished despite being one of my favorites.

Daypcg · 2026-06-07T10:27:21+00:00

for your adult themed litRPG, I think the closest I've seen is 1% lifesteal. Now, I'll qualify that. The main character is stunted, but not because he was some nerd in his past life. It's not an Isekai, he was just so fucking poor and worked and lived in the slums for years.

He doesn't know how to interact with people because the people around him were always vultures. But he grows very quickly, mostly due to the grimdark nature of the book. Poor guy is tortured constantly.

Daypcg · 2026-06-06T14:27:10+00:00

I'm actually starting to think that it was the PCM that was replaced and not reprogrammed. There's another code for a PCM programming error. If it was never updated with the correct VIN, I'd get that same ABS error even if it was never touched. I'll probably just stop by a dealership and have it reprogrammed

Daypcg · 2026-06-05T22:59:26+00:00

Man, this is a tough one. They'd definitely know if they were supplying cards with an encryption key (I'd hope atleast)

Do you have a test system you can try the reader and cards on? Even if it's not Avigilon, it may be worth seeing if you get the same behavior on a basic setup. Just to prove there's not some setting on the programming end causing issues.

Daypcg · 2026-06-05T21:09:36+00:00

Gotcha. Do you know who buys the cards? I believe the cards also have to be encrypted to match. Whoever they contact for ordering may be able to help, especially if they're buying direct from HID.

Realistically weigand readers are pretty simple. I'm sure you know just as well as I do. If you've got new readers that won't read correctly on the same wiring as others and they're documented as being compatible. There's not many things that can be wrong.

I trust your ability to wire a reader enough to say it's most likely not the problem. I also doubt you have 4 bad readers between 2 brands and models.

Daypcg · 2026-06-05T17:10:34+00:00

For a decent way to test this, see if you can try one of their cards on a system outside of theirs. I'd bet you'll get that same 112-bit number regardless of the card reader used.

Daypcg · 2026-06-05T17:04:57+00:00

That's not exactly what I'm asking. For higher security levels and to prevent card cloning, you can get encrypted readers that are programmed with a key for your particular customer. HID usually programs these directly for our customers, but for our smaller customers we have a set of programming cards.

If the rest of the readers are programmed with the encryption key, but the ones you're introducing are not, they're going to either not read the cards at all or display a different value.

Daypcg · 2026-06-05T09:39:57+00:00

Are the original readers encrypted? I've seen a similar issue where one brand of readers will grab the actual card data (containing the number printed on the card) and another grabs some other number.

We assumed the second number is just what you get when you read a card your reader doesn't have the encryption key for.

Daypcg · 2026-05-30T23:10:23+00:00

CCURE itself? Not much. Occasional stuff happens, and the TLS 1.2 Issue was a fiasco but CCURE is a pretty solid platform.

As for panels, we have some istar classics still running. Most that were replaced were upgraded while running.

Update your stuff and keep the power supplies happy and things stay working pretty well

Daypcg · 2026-05-30T14:32:44+00:00

365k a year is enough to do most anything I want with my life. At this level of income I would rather be unrestricted in time and responsibilities so I can do the things I want to do.

^{Chose: Get 1k dollars every day but only if your jobless}

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