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Just searched and saw that too, was going to test it on an existing door but triggers and actions can only affect relay 2, so will give it a go once I have the new room wired up. Thanks

Do you know if triggers and actions can be triggered again when already happening, starting the 10 minutes again? I'll have to experiment with it, but I know that door opens don't re-start the time if fobbed again.

Ideally I'd like to keep it within the Paxton ecosystem and not rely on having something else running.

I have a room which has an exit button, and a fob to exit. We need the ability for staff to disable the exit button, but for it to start working again after a set amount of time with no input. My plan to achieve this was to have another reader, wire the exit button through one of the relays and when this reader is presented with a fob it opens the relay, disabling the button, we do something similar for timed exit buttons for gates. This works as planned, with one small issue. I can set it to open for say 10 minutes, then the button works again. We need for them to be able to present the card again within that 10 minutes and the timer starts again. What actually happens is that it ignores future times the fob is presented until the 10 minutes is up, then the button works again and you can present again for another 10 minutes. This gives a time when the button will work, until they realise, and then present the fob again. Not sure if there is a way to achieve this with triggers and actions possibly?

The driving factor for us was being able to communicate internally still if the internet connection went down. Once we finish improving the resiliency of the connection we may move it to the cloud. We had plenty of spare server capacity so no additional costs to host it ourselves.

3cx with Yealink handsets, including whole site dect cordless ones, integration to MIS via Edulink Pro. Been working for years with no issues.

We use dynamic groups based on enrolment tokens, not sure this is the right way to do it or how well it scales, but our 8 different sets of iPads have different enrolment tokens, then I just assign the devices in bulk in apple school manager and they all end up in the right dynamic groups once enrolled, mostly we just name them Setname-serialnumber which can be done automatically on enrollment.

Looks like it's completely down Arbor Status

No back panel, will need collecting from East Sussex within next couple of weeks (ready now), free of charge - would rather it gets used than go to scrap.

They've jumped in price recently haven't they? Also probably not the best for any sort of gaming?

I know good deals is a relative term at the moment, but been asked to recommend a laptop to a member of staff, ideally around £450 but stretch to up to £600. Office work and light gaming, ideally to get their child through 5 years of school. I'm looking at these 2: Acer Aspire Go 15 AG15-42P AMD Ryzen 5 16GB RAM 512GB SSD 15.6 Inch Windows 11 Laptop - Laptops Direct Medion ERAZER Crawler E30 Intel Core i5 16GB RAM 512GB SSD RTX 2050 60Hz 15.6 Inch Windows 11 Gaming Laptop - Laptops Direct Not brands I'd normally go for, but seem to be best value, any other recommendations?

Finally figured it out, not entirely sure why it fixed it but it has. I had apples ip range set as a destination exception. Removing this fixed the issue.

It's really odd, I also get a connection error going to icloud.com on my pc. Our local smoothwall is in bridge mode, there are other appliances at the LA but we bypass those, although I do have access to an unfiltered proxy - when I use this proxy it works fine, can't really deploy this to all staff though! I've added all the apple urls manually to our group that does not have https inspection, as well as setting the icloud and apple groups on the smoothwall to bypass filtering. Checking the SSL cert in edge on the icloud site when I get the error shows it was issued to apple, so smoothwall isn't intercepting and using its own certificate. Realtime webfilter monitor on the smoothwall for my ip shows nothing when trying to access icloud. It's quite frustrating!

Random one, but I can't turn off find my iPad on any devices when they are connected through our smoothwall. All other apple stuff works, logging in etc, apple urls are set to bypass ssl inspection, and realtime log shows nothing being blocked. Just doing domain capture so need to transfer apple accounts across and this keeps failing for this reason. Can anyone else turn off find my iPad through a smoothwall filtered connection? Never had a problem before so not sure if this is a recent thing? Hotspot off my phone and it works fine.

I'd hope it's slightly better uploading them to copilot which we have done a dpia for than someone taking pictures off the website and blackmailing us with deepfakes though. There does seem to be this weird situation where AI is becoming the solution to some of the problems which AI has created, maybe eventually they will just fight it out themselves and humans wont be involved..... 🙂

There is a pretty good troubleshooting guide here: Microsoft Entra Connect: Troubleshoot Seamless Single Sign-On - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn Ours broke fairly recently, disabling and re-enabling it from that guide seemed to sort it for us.

Annoyingly, not sure now. We used co-pilot to trial this before agreeing it as a policy - took a few photos of our team and it changed the faces to other realistic looking faces that weren't us with no problem. Started trying to do it on our website this week and it now says that is not something it can do, and only offers cartoon style or blurring. One option is the site linked earlier in this thread, but its quite expensive, so we are currently looking at other options.

We had a meeting about this this week. Our website and social media will have faces changed by ai now so real looking but not actually real children. We are going to start emailing out newsletters again (rather than doing them through our website) and have requested a new consent from parents to allow images of their children to be shared with other parents only via email. This seemed the only logical conclusion. We asked for consent for images for social media and website previously, and in light of the new guidance would need to re-request this. We were going to share the new information, and then re-request permission, but then realised the email would go something like: We've had new guidance that there is now a real and proven risk of us having your children's images on our website where bad things may happen to them and we may be blackmailed by them. Do you give us permission to put them on there? We couldn't see a lot of parents saying yes to this, so concluded we should just remove them.

Limited to set times of day, or limited for certain amount of time after issued and then it expires? The first is simple with timezones in Paxton, the second, which I imagine is what you are asking, I'm not so sure!

If they are for normal sized (30 pupil) classrooms I'd recommend going bigger than 65". We put 70" in about 13 years ago and have slowly replaced them all with larger ones as they are just too small for a classroom.

No problem running a cable out to where the doorbell push will be, I'm just trying to avoid running cabling into 4 separate rooms which need chimes when we already have adequate network sockets in those rooms.

It's their network chimes I'm hoping to use. Just need to be sure it all happens locally - doorbell > Unifi OS controller > Network chime. I ideally don't want the internet / cloud involved!

We use our 3cx phone system as a pa system. I'd imagine it's possible to integrate it into that, but looking for the keep it as simple as possible option, press the button and multiple chimes go bing, and possibly bong 🙂

We've got Paxton intercoms for our gates, but they are expensive and we don't need all the features they provide, it doesn't need to be any smarter than a doorbell that rings multiple chimes around the building at the same time.

Has anyone used the doorbell lite and smart chimes? We don't need intercom or video, we just need a doorbell that works well and can sound multiple sounders in different rooms from a long distance. Standard cordless doorbells don't come close the the range we need (have tested the 1000ft ones) and a wired doorbell would be a pain running cabling. The POE powered chimes look ideal, then just running a cat5 out to the doorbell, but want to know they work well and can ring multiple chimes at once, and don't need internet / cloud access to work.