ID Badge Generation

[lmrogers]

Afternoon

 

I am looking for some software that can generate ID badges from a users AD account and then take a picture and then print the badge.

 

Does anyone know of a solution that could work?

 

Cheers

[Sibrows]

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[TechMonkey]

Do you use Paxton? Salamander can integrate AD/MIS and Paxton. There is AD2Net as well, it works but it is a bit odd.

[Sibrows]

We use both Paxton and Salamander but we don't use Paxton to generate the badges.

 

We use the same cards for both door access, print release (Papercut) and cashless catering.

 

Paxton uses the card serial number.

Print Release and cashless catering takes some other number from the card.

 

This results in a very long winded onboarding process with the card being scanned manually twice

[lmrogers]

So we have Mifare cards which are scanned into the cashless catering system and then have a powershell script which pulls that info, and uploads it into our door entry system and AD and then PaperCut syncs from AD so that the cards can also be used for print release.

[Sibrows]

So we have Mifare cards which are scanned into the cashless catering system and then have a powershell script which pulls that info, and uploads it into our door entry system and AD and then PaperCut syncs from AD so that the cards can also be used for print release.

Is your door entry system Paxton?

 

We had real issues with the different data that was scanned from the same card as this is what we'd hoped to do but couldn't as the Paxton readers read a different number when reading the cards. It was something like the Paxton card readers read the serial number and the card readers on our cashless system and Papercut read a different value.

 

We ended up sending cards and readers off to Paxton but they couldn't resolve it.

[lmrogers]

Is your door entry system Paxton?

 

We had real issues with the different data that was scanned from the same card as this is what we'd hoped to do but couldn't as the Paxton readers read a different number when reading the cards. It was something like the Paxton card readers read the serial number and the card readers on our cashless system and Papercut read a different value.

 

We ended up sending cards and readers off to Paxton but they couldn't resolve it.

 

No we don't have paxton. We are using Axis door controllers.

[Chris_Cook]

I think there was some thread on here ages ago about paxton and rfid card serial numbers. It depends on whether you use the paxton readers or the HID readers.

 

From what I remember for HID, you take the hex number from papercut, switch round the 4 bytes, convert to an integer and use the last (right-most) 8 numbers. There may be a missing digit when doing the reverse. so A1B2C3D4 becomes D4C3B2A1, and then converted to decimal is 3569595041‬. Last numbers are 69595041‬.

 

For the newer paxton readers, then just convert the papercut number from hex to decimal, and take the last 8 numbers: A1B2C3D4 > 2712847316 > 12847316

 

I was part way through talking to salamander about the HID readers before all the Covid problems, I need to get back on with that.