For your door entity to be functional, you must match the hardware wiring you made to
the door (reader connections, door locks, door sensors, REX’s, buzzers, and so on) in Security
Center, so the Access Manager knows how to control the
door.
What you should know
The way you wire your door and assign the hardware interfaces affects how the door can be
secured and monitored. For example, if the door has an entry sensor, you can monitor
Door forced open events, and
Entry detected events. If a door side is configured
with a REX, access rule cannot be applied to that door side.
IMPORTANT: The
door’s hardware configuration must correspond to the I/O configurations you set for the
access control unit controlling the door.
To map the physical wiring of a door to a door entity:
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From the Config
Tool home page, open the Area
view task.
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Select the door entity to configure, and click the Hardware
tab.
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From the Preferred unit drop-down list, select the access
control unit that is connected to the door.
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In the Door side (A) section, select the Reader,
REX, and Entry sensor from the drop-down
lists, based on the door wiring.
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To change the door reader settings, click Reader settings
().
The
Reader settings dialog box lets you
to set the following:
PIN entry timeout:
This sets the entry timeout for the PIN after the card has been read. For example, at
the default (5 seconds), you have 5 seconds to enter all the PIN digits.
Use card and PIN:
Set to ON to change the reader mode to Card and PIN and use the
Schedule drop-down list to select when this mode applies. When
not in a scheduled time period, the reader behaves in Card only mode.
NOTE: Make sure your settings match the capabilities of your reader. The system
cannot validate the capabilities of your hardware. You can configure this type of reader
in the unit's Peripherals tab.
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Repeat the steps for door side (B).
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In the Additional connections section, assign the inputs and
outputs for the buzzer, door lock, and so on.
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Click Apply.
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Link cameras that display each side of the
door to the door entity.
Example
If a physical door has the following installed, then the door entity must have a
Card-In/REX out configuration in
Config
Tool:
- A reader wired on door side A
- A REX wired on door side B
- A strike relay on the door lock
- A door sensor
- An auxiliary relay wired to a buzzer