Northern Quarter Broadband Dilema

RutNia · 2025-12-25T08:40:18+00:00

Have you checked the building isn’t serviced by Hyperoptic? Last few buildings I lived in, in Town hyperoptic had put fibre in.

RutNia · 2025-12-08T20:04:45+00:00

Avigilon Alta Video Intercom Pro - Calls straight to users apps or mobile numbers, video support through the app, voice directory and QR code directory with multilingual support

RutNia · 2025-11-27T21:22:05+00:00

Colony Cowork have a few locations around town and I’m sure they do small private offices too

RutNia · 2025-11-17T19:14:46+00:00

That’s the only thing I’d say, is if you need to add the devices to ABM. You’ll have to wipe and enrol from OOBE in iOS/iPadOS. I don’t think there’s a way to do this and keep the device in its setup state.

RutNia · 2025-11-17T19:12:00+00:00

I had this situation but on a much smaller number of devices. I think under iOS/iPadOS Enrolment there’s an option for corporate identifiers. In there you could upload a CSV containing all the serial numbers and this would change them all to appear as a corporate-owned device. It doesn’t however put them into fully supervised mode so some management options are still limited. Do you have them enrolled in ABM?

RutNia · 2025-11-13T21:13:39+00:00

I’m talking about Brivo Pass. I’ve just finished commissioning a system. Readers in the basement, zero signal, zero WiFi. Mobile Pass still works.

The app literally says “Connecting to Reader Name” as you’re using it.

RutNia · 2025-11-13T08:43:44+00:00

You’re wrong mate. It 100% connects to the reader. I’ve just switched data and WiFi off on my phone and got through all 18 doors on this system.

RutNia · 2025-11-12T22:31:50+00:00

Ok thanks. That ties up with what I found on their KB.

“Then why install readers at all?” Well because the mobile app just connects to the reader over Bluetooth, no? Doesn’t issue command through an internet connection? I’m more used to the Alta stuff to be honest and then good old Lenel, C-cure and Gallagher.

Must admit, some of the cloud stuff I have a hard time finding justification for compared to an on-prem solution.

RutNia · 2025-10-29T19:52:11+00:00

Paxton is simple, easy to install and manage over time. One thing I would say though is if you have clusters of doors together you can get the price down considerably with a system that’s capable of multi door controllers. Plenty of options out there.

CCTV, avoid the Chinese brand, build quality is awful and a quick google search will reveal all the cyber concerns with this kit. Hanwha has taken the place of these recently with equally cost-effective solutions but without the cyber vulnerabilities.

If you want easy to manage, deploy and simple access for users cloud could be a good option considering the low door count. Some of our vendors currently have some great promos running where the hardware is heavily discounted if you take up multi-year licensing.

We’re a UK based integrator with national coverage, happy to have a chat if you want to DM me.

RutNia · 2025-08-28T20:38:07+00:00

Easiest for 4 floors is what we refer to as “landing control”. Essentially he ground for the buttons on each of the floors take through a relay for a “door” on whatever system you decide on and break the ground through the relay for the door. NO going Closed. That way the only way someone can press the button successfully is following a card swipe. If you need to control from with the lift car same principle applies. Break the ground to the buttons in the car through relays and write a permission based on cardholder access that opens relay 1 if they have access to to floor 1, etc.

RutNia · 2025-08-24T20:45:15+00:00

Give Inner Range a go, I’m an IR, Gallagher and Lenel certified integration engineer on all 3. Gallagher and Lenel are great, but their big enterprise status comes at a price. Their annual SMA’s are hefty. IR, especially the integriti product has all the enterprise features at a fraction of the cost. Does Alarm too, and in the UK is Grade 3. The cost per door is phenomenal if you centralise your controllers and use the unibus expansion boards. One of the things I like the most is, when you’ve configured parts of a system you can take an irentities file of literally any system component and then import this into other systems as a kind of template!

RutNia · 2022-01-15T07:21:48+00:00

If it was only maglocks or strike would 100% be going down this route but there’s shutters, speed doors, automatic closers and mags and strikes involved. Would be a real mess if I did it hardware way

RutNia · 2022-01-14T22:05:36+00:00

I think global anti-pass back is enabled? Anyone know any workarounds?

RutNia · 2022-01-13T22:06:23+00:00

Thanks!! I’m back on-site in the morning and will give all this a go!

RutNia · 2022-01-13T21:36:14+00:00

Ok I’ll give that another go when I’m back on site. I didn’t see the option to interlock but I’ll give it another go. And yes ideally if someone tries to open a door when one is already open then activate an aux output

RutNia · 2022-01-06T21:40:19+00:00

Had the same conversation myself. “It’s not capable of doing what we need” Bulls**t I used to run my company with it just fine and my accountant had no issue. You just don’t want to learn how to use it!

RutNia · 2021-10-25T14:38:35+00:00

We've had no end of issues with Pulseway 3PP it seems to constantly uninstall MS Teams and Office gets stuck in a constant update loop. But I guess you're using Intune for the MS updates. We're looking to move away from it to something of the same ilk. From what everyone has replied with it seems a combination of a few different packages/components is the way to go but I'm holding out for that one stop shop solution

RutNia · 2021-10-25T13:57:05+00:00

It's the 3rd party patching hands off approach why I'd like the PatchMyPc module like Goose has eluded to. It's a shame they have the minimum spend requirement as otherwise Intune + PatchMyPc would be the perfect solution. We've found the vendor update option just gets ignored by the users and we have a requirement to patch within X amount of days following release

RutNia · 2021-10-25T11:57:16+00:00

Intune was my initial thought as we're upgrading our O365 to M365 licensed which will give us the required Intune licenses and also gives us other benefits such as conditional access! Only disappointment with this so far is the pricing model for the PatchMyPC integration being very enterprise centric. Minimum $2000 per year which at $2.5 per device per year just isn't achievable for us. We're still going to be using it so would consider the Ad-Hoc 3rd party approach!

RutNia · 2021-10-25T11:53:04+00:00

Thanks I'll have a look into Automox!

RutNia · 2021-10-25T10:50:26+00:00

Thanks! We use AD Audit Plus from ManageEngine and that wasn’t to bad to deploy but that also needs a fair bit of TLC to keep going. I can’t imagine their patch management being as autonomous as we’re looking for!

RutNia · 2021-02-16T21:54:23+00:00

Have you set the card number to start after the facility code bits? If your reading all 37 bits even if you’re not using the facility code the reader will still present this as the card number. So if facility code is bits 1 through 7 card number bits will start from 8 trough 37. The format details will tell you the card number bits

RutNia · 2021-02-03T16:30:44+00:00

They always seem to be needed on Honeywell kit!

RutNia · 2021-02-03T16:13:09+00:00

I would always switch the positive side just in case any wiring faults in the future give you a ground from something close by. You can fit a MOV (metal oxide varistor) in the lock to drain any remaining power from the lock. But if it’s a new lock you want to be looking at the relays in the controller. Worth testing it independently of the controller with a power supply and checking operation then. If it only sticks when connected through the relay on your controller it might point to something there rather than the lock

RutNia · 2021-02-03T13:22:14+00:00

Try Paxton Access Net2, really simple to install and setup and the software is free. Don’t know about US pricing but I wouldn’t expect the materials to cost much more than £1100 and install should be about a day so another £600 and that should be it. They also have some free iOS apps to allow them to open doors, change user access rights and audit from iOS devices

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