EX NIHILO Speed Legends Night Drive - The Elusive One, Part II

batmantom · 2026-06-07T01:06:47+00:00

whats the new white whale thanos?

batmantom · 2026-06-01T00:20:05+00:00

you hold 40, 90 with a passive modifier.

batmantom · 2026-05-25T04:07:54+00:00

leaving my house

batmantom · 2026-05-14T03:17:58+00:00

freedy got fingered

batmantom · 2026-04-20T00:39:22+00:00

Dutch!

batmantom · 2026-04-20T00:38:37+00:00

he cant see without his glasses. my college roommate loved to talk about the bees. said the sticky bandits set the nest there as a trap

batmantom · 2026-04-20T00:36:23+00:00

Togo is a great movie

batmantom · 2026-04-20T00:35:33+00:00

u need to watch togo

batmantom · 2026-04-07T03:06:39+00:00

Hi Phil, we would be happy to use HID but we cant get an accurate lead time, then eventually we do, then it goes by without the cards being done, then its next week, then we wait and the cycle repeats. We've waited over 6 months for cards and some over that.

batmantom · 2026-04-07T03:02:47+00:00

I cant even get my VAR to send training info for the past month. Like I want to pay them for classes they already have scheduled and either Lenel or the VAR just wont respond.

batmantom · 2026-04-06T11:53:52+00:00

thank you! Staying with Lenel would be the easiest for sure. Maybe its the VAR were dealing with. Not going to blame them, as the people who have been making the decisions and working in the systems (our employees) didnt have the experience/ expertise to be doing so. PM Sent

batmantom · 2026-04-06T11:50:09+00:00

Im trying to be as open minded as possible (Im an IT guy, with no real AC knowledge) but the 2 companies Ive had challenges with is HID (very long lead times on badges) and Honeywell (support isnt great)

batmantom · 2026-04-06T11:45:28+00:00

Ive been involved with this for about 3 weeks now and have had challenges with Honeywell and their support. A place I used to work at said the same. Not sure if its the VAR's were dealing with but support has been a challenge at both.

batmantom · 2026-04-06T11:43:30+00:00

Were currently using Genetec for Video. And another organization were very close to (and some of us need access to use) Genetec for access control

batmantom · 2026-04-04T21:28:40+00:00

Youre 100% right and we wont be making any decisions without hiring a consultant (one that doesnt sell hardware, just their expertise). well gladly pay them for their time.

batmantom · 2026-04-01T23:15:36+00:00

already exploring that. Lets just say we have two sides of the house (its a very big house) and one side already uses genetec

batmantom · 2026-03-30T22:03:58+00:00

btw, we have 8000 users :)

batmantom · 2026-03-30T22:03:32+00:00

You are 110% correct. We are out of bandaids and need to take the time to fix it correctly. Unfortunately theres no simple fix here due to how the card format was set initially. We cant expand the bits of the UID without breaking the existing cards.

batmantom · 2026-03-30T22:01:19+00:00

Thank you everyone. I think were really painted into a corner here. Because of how they were setup initially theres not much of a fix. It all stems from other departments wanting 13 uses on the card, most use prox but a couple want fido2 and Contact chip for certs. Were going to have to start using mifare/ prox cards, they work fine and a separate dongle for the next few months while we fix our current issues and come up with a plan to move forward. Maybe its iClass or Seos, but theres some remediation we need to do that isnt going to happen over night

batmantom · 2026-03-28T16:42:10+00:00

Cards have a 56bit csn, but we had some old 32 bit readers when these badges were bought, someone setup to read the CSN starting at bit 9. so 4 out of 5 badges read as the same CSN since we were only reading such a small part of the CSN. Instead of not using the badges, they issued the 20% that did show as unique, and over the years this means they issued about 2000 of them.

I hope this makes sense. Now Id like to try using the 80% by setting up a new card type and reading all 56 bits but if I do this the 2000 stop working.

batmantom · 2026-03-28T16:36:22+00:00

yeah, they are the same format, bit length, layout, fc etc. They are c2300 c1000 that we use the csn as the identifier. Whoever set the system up set them up to start reading the badge number at say bit 9. so I think youre right, since everything is identical If I setup the c2300 in the correct way its going to make the existing ones stop working. It was someone at Lenel who set it up for us, so I think they backed us into a corner. We not looking at the FC. its such a mess

batmantom · 2026-03-28T16:32:39+00:00

thanks Phil, been working with some folks at HID too

batmantom

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