What it can do — Ademco Galaxy Gxy Smart
Feature by feature, as assessed on 2026-05-30. Read the limitation column before you
promise a customer something the hardware cannot do.
Connection, health and audit
| Feature |
Supported |
Limitation |
| Connection & session |
Partially |
The panel is reached over the network with a password, but it is not yet certain that a wrong password is always rejected, so a failed sign-in may be taken for a good one. |
| Liveness / keepalive |
Partially |
A lost connection is noticed only when the next regular reading of the panel fails, so a short outage can pass unreported. |
| Time synchronization |
Yes |
— |
| Offline audit recovery |
Partially |
Entries recorded while the connection was down are collected afterwards, but this has not been checked on real hardware and an entry the system does not recognise is dropped without leaving anything to follow up. |
| Health & supervision |
Yes |
— |
| Configuration & reset audit |
Partially |
Changes to the panel settings are recorded, but a full wipe back to factory or default settings is not recorded as its own audit entry. |
| Configuration discovery |
No — the hardware cannot do it |
The panel cannot be asked what is installed in it, so every area, detection point, output, keypad and reader has to be entered by hand. |
Access control
| Feature |
Supported |
Limitation |
| Credential management |
Partially |
A person can be given a PIN and a proximity card, but removing a person may not clear their place in the panel completely, and any other kind of credential is passed over without warning. |
| Card formats |
Yes |
— |
| Sync mode |
Yes |
— |
| Reset & restore |
Partially |
Clearing the panel overwrites each person's place in turn, and it is not confirmed that this leaves those places as empty as deleting them at the panel would. |
| Double-sync safety |
Partially |
Sending the same people to the panel twice is expected to change nothing, but this has not been confirmed on real hardware. |
| Schedules / time profiles |
Not included |
Access cannot be restricted to certain hours or days; whoever has access has it around the clock. |
| Access levels / groups |
Partially |
Access is granted by whole areas of the building rather than by individual doors, so a person cannot be allowed through only one door of an area. |
| Holidays |
No — the hardware cannot do it |
Public holidays cannot be sent to the panel, so they are treated the same as any ordinary day. |
| Antipassback |
No — the hardware cannot do it |
There is no way to stop a card being passed back and used again by a second person at the same door. |
| Door control |
No — the hardware cannot do it |
Doors cannot be released, held open or locked from the system; that has to be done at the panel or keypad. |
| Reader mode / enable |
No — the hardware cannot do it |
Readers only report what happens at them; they cannot be switched off or changed to another mode, such as card plus PIN, from the system. |
| Access events |
Yes |
— |
| Enrollment |
No — the hardware cannot do it |
A new card cannot be registered by presenting it at a reader; its number has to be typed in by hand. |
Intrusion detection
| Feature |
Supported |
Limitation |
| Arm / disarm |
Yes |
— |
| Bypass |
Yes |
— |
| Alarm reset |
Yes |
— |
| Partitions / zones |
Partially |
Areas and detection points are listed with their states, but some of them accept addresses the panel does not actually have, so the wiring has to be checked against the panel configuration. |
| Alarms / tampers / troubles / restores |
Partially |
Alarms, tampers and faults are reported, but several of them are missing from the adapter's declared list of reports, so they may not be offered when setting up rules or filters. |
| User-code management |
Partially |
PIN codes and the permissions that go with them reach the panel, but how the alarm side treats them, such as a code that silently signals a person is under threat, has not been checked on real hardware. |
| Entry / exit delay |
Yes |
— |
| Sounder / alarm control |
Not included |
Sirens cannot be silenced or tested from the system; that has to be done at the panel or keypad. |
Safety
| Feature |
Supported |
Limitation |
| Panic / duress / emergency |
Partially |
Panic and hold-up calls are reported as an alarm in the affected area, but an evacuation or lockdown cannot be started or called off from the system. |
| Feature |
Supported |
Limitation |
| Inputs |
Partially |
Every wired input appears as a detection point of the alarm system, so a plain contact cannot be used as a general-purpose input. |
| Outputs |
Partially |
Relays can be switched on and off and their state is read back, but a relay entered with an address the panel does not have is reported as switched successfully instead of as an error. |
| Output schedules |
Not included |
Relays can only be switched on and off on demand; they cannot be set to switch by themselves at set times. |