Settings; Configuration - Schlage PIB300 User Manual

Configuration

ID Length: If all of your user IDs are the same length, you can enter the number
of digits here so that users do not have to press ENTER or YES after
typing the ID at the reader. For example, if all of your IDs are four digits
long, then you could enter 4 here. Then, at the reader, once the user
had entered four digits, the reader would ask the user to place the hand
(assuming the ID was valid). Without this, the user would have to type
the four digits and then press the ENTER or YES button on the reader.
However, if you use a duress code (see below), do not enter a number
here. This is because the duress code adds a digit; if your IDs are four
digits, the user will have to be able to enter five digits if they ever need the
duress code. If you are using a duress code, leave this set to ten.
Number of Tries: If a user enters a valid ID number but the users hand does
not match the image stored, the reader does not give access. This entry
controls how many times the user can try to get access before the reader
will block the user's ID and not allow further tries. This prevents someone
from making repeated tries to gain access with someone else's ID number.
Normally three is a good setting here; it allows for two retries if the user did
not place the hand correctly, but limits the number of attempts someone
can make.
If the user does not gain access after the number of tries here, the reader
no longer accepts that user's ID until another user successfully gains
access through that reader.
Duress Code: A duress code is single digit that users can enter before the ID
number to indicate that they are in danger or that someone else is forcing
them to open the door. For example, suppose that you set zero up as a
duress code. If a user is being forced to let someone into the building,
instead of entering the regular ID of 1234, the user would enter 01234.
The system would still grant access as it would for the normal ID, but it
would also trigger an alarm. This could be merely the alarm in the HandNet
program, or, it could also trigger an external alarm through the Auxiliary
Settings; see page 49.
Zero (0) is often a good digit for the duress code because you cannot begin
a user ID with zero if you enroll users from the command menus on the
reader (while HandNet distinguishes between 5 and 0005, the process of
adding a user from the reader command menu does not. This means that if
you create a user with an ID of 0005 in HandNet and try to enroll that user
with the command menus on the reader, when you type 0005, the reader
would think you were enrolling User Five. This would not correspond with
0005 in HandNet).
This screen controls how closely the
typical user's hand must match the
image that is stored, how long the
door can stay open, and when (if
ever) the door should be automatically
unlocked.
Reject threshold: The lower this number
is, the more closely the user's hand
must match the image or template of
the hand stored in HandNet. Thirty
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