UHPPOTE Commercial Grade Four Door Security Access Control Panel Including Power Supply with Backup Battery Link

This system works really well. I've installed 7 of these around our campus and I just bought an 8th. Yes, the software is a bit older looking but it has many features you can enable. I did give all our controllers a static IP so I can find them on my network. I also gave them all a bogus gateway IP so it can't communicate back with Weigand China.What I like:Personnel can be put in departments making the giving of permissions easier.We can do time profiles for different departments as to when they have access ie staff 24/7/365, students 7am-5pm M-F.We can setup tasks for each individual door such as to unlock at 8am and go under control (lock back up) at 4pm. We use this to do an unlock all doors on campus for move-in and move-out days.One the controller is programmed it doesn't need the network (ie if the network goes down, the controller has all the permissions already).The battery backup works through about a 24-36 hour power failure depending on use.The controllers keep all usage data internally and we can easily access each users swipes with a time/date stamp telling us what door they opened.This system can work with fobs, RFID stickers, or ID badges. We use a 125khz system as we aren't running Fort Knox.I was given good advice from an installer when I was shopping. That advice was spend your money on your electric strikes (where the door latches) but the controller can be one of these less expensive ones. That advice has served us well. This system does all we have wanted it to do and more. Advice I give you, read the pdf manual and also you can find videos on youtube how the software works if you look for "security camera king" "DX access control software". There are many hidden settings that you can find in the literature.

Overall, I'm pleased with this access controller. Because a certain lack of features, I had to use all 4 channels to control one storefront door the way I wanted, I'll get to that. The device appears to be reliable. I use it with the readers 1x metal keypad B01N6JBMU3 outside and 2x RFID B07S6J1PD4 inside. Also the enhanced alarm interface B00UX02NDY. Above the door is a Bosch PIR RTE B002I0ZTFQ. The door latch mechanism is an Adams Rite Steel Hawk with monitoring.This device is managed over wired Ethernet by a free windows application from Wiegand China. While the software is quite capable, it is also quite dated (circa-2005) with a Windows-7 look and feel that has options to run the database in either Access or SQL. The most useful features are not enabled by default but are added as optional plug-ins that are resident and easy to do but you need to restart the app every time you add a feature.Ethernet communications to the controller operate on default port 60000 sans IP address, optionally you can set an IP address and gateway via the software, but note this solution does not support DHCP nor IPv6. Also the controller does not support an on-board web interface. Really this device can benefit from having it's Ethernet adapter replaced with a cheap Linux-capable SoC with the management software, database, and web-based U/I co-resident. This would also enable native SSH, IPSec, and OpenVPN support for options in providing database back-up support and interfacing to other security systems, as well as local script execution in a variety of programming languages.Annoyances: The monitoring interface does not report door lock state. A door that is closed but locked looks the same as a door that is closed but unlocked.So, why so many channels for one door? On my application, I want a front door that is controlled during non-business hours, that has the option to be open during business hours, and where we can lock up at any time. I also interface this system to the burglar alarm such that when someone swipes in, the system automatically is disarmed, and when someone swipes a special reader the alarm is armed and everything locks up. Here are the issues:Requirement: Timed open for business hours, but we need to ensure someone is present before opening the door: The "First Card Open" is great, you can set a schedule where the door is controlled normally, then set the door to unlock after a certain time but only after the door has a valid swipe. This ensures that someone is there before executing the timed open. Problem: Once swiped to the open state, it stays there for the duration of the time period with no way to manually reset it back to the 'waiting for first swipe' state. Also, I wanted a dedicated reader to both arm the alarm system and 'lock-up' the office. Lastly, I wanted the system to log who did what and when so I can correlate this data with the security camera footage.The Alarm Interface module has 1 input and 4 outputs. The single input has one main function: unlock all doors in the event of a fire alarm. The four outputs have limited triggers, mostly 'issues' such as Threat, Open too long, Door forced, and Invalid card swipe (3x). It would have been nice to have more inputs with generic triggers (reset First Card Open, or reset Door As Switch, assert Forced Lock, for example). It also would be nice to be able to program a relay to assert on a valid card read from group of certain doors, bad card read on the first time (to trigger a camera).Overall relay assertion timers are configurable to 1s resolution. It would be nice for 100ms resolution.What I ended up doing:Ch-1 is the front door control. It has the fancy keypad reader. The RTE signal is routed to the PIR sensor and to Ch-2's door relay.Ch-2 is the timed-open control. This is configured via Task List to 'qualify' the time the door is available to be unlocked during regular business hours. The time schedule is set for 0800-1700. It does not assert Ch-1's RTE, it just routes the signal through it's relay to Ch-3 and Ch-4's relays.Ch-3 is configured with the 'Door As Switch' feature. This feature toggles the door control relay with each swipe. It's relay asserts Ch-1's RTE, but only if Ch-2 is asserted. So, the door will be timed-unlocked only if Door-As-Switch is asserted, and one can go back to access-controlled mode by swiping it again (lunch break, going home early, whatever...). Now, I only needed a way to ensure that Door As Switch is reset when the time period has expired or the alarm is armed. I discovered that Door-As-Switch will reset to the 'off' state after an RTE event. This reset is driven from the timed period expiration OR Ch-4 (the alarm arm channel). I used a cheap programmable timer module (type YYC-2S, P35 A0.5 B0.5) driven from Ch-2's NC contact, and diode-OR it's output with Ch-4.Ch-4 is the alarm arm control. It is provisioned as if a regular door but it's output asserts Ch-3's RTE to reset the Door-As-Switch function and ensure that the front door reverts back from timed open to access controlled mode.The security alarm interface is a hack, where I use YYC-2S timer modules wired to the swipe interface Beep/LED interface as a valid card swipe discriminator (differentiate between the fast blink of a rejected swipe from the long blink of a valid swipe. There is one to qualify Disarm using swipes from Ch-1 and Ch-3 diode-ORd together, and one to qualify Arm from Ch-4 swipes.This whole mess would have been much with the following features added:1) Ability to 'reset' First Card Open with a trigger (external signal, another valid swipe, another channel's activation, ideally a combination of these like 2nd valid swipe OR another channel's activation.)2) More flexible I/O. It would be nice to have more inputs as triggers to set/reset things like First Card Open, Forced Lock, etc. Also, having more triggers for the relays would be great, such as valid single reads from one or more doors, and invalid single reads from one or more doors.3) I'd like to see door lock status reported in the monitor icons.

It’s a solid system once you get it set up, which takes a little effort due to the lack of documentation. Tech support is usually very helpful.

Would it kill you to post a link to the software on your website?

It's not all bad but you have to get past limited and poor quality documentation, less than well thought out software design and some significant issues with build quality. Yes you can use this system and I do but be prepared to put on your geek hat and use Google translate a fair bit on Chinese language websites. There is an open source library that can control these systems for those who are geeky enough. It is better documented than the windows only system that is supplied by the vendor. Look on GitHub for uhppoted to find it. (The vendor software is designed for older versions of windows and while it can run on windows 10 there is no guarantee it will be supported going forward. It was last updated around 2004)

Wiring was a little confusing, so I made up a test board to hook up to exit rim devices, electric strikes, mag locks, and exit buttons. Once laid out all worked except Pin #'s. Sent e-mail thru amazon messenger and company responded within a few days with directions on how to set up program. Works great with cards, fob's, or Pin's.

Any product (like this) that requires you reach out to the manufacturer for install diagrams, software, etc. is not professional. The company's "manual" is written in heavy broken English and doesn't provide the information needed to even get the system up and running. Literally nothing. I will be returning and not connecting to my network. I do not trust this company...

This unit works very well for in house, hard wired access control. But, beware that it is not easy to install if you do not know what you are doing. I recommend that you study schematics of access control systems in order to wire this unit properly.