What it can do — HID Aero Access Control System¶

Feature by feature, as assessed on 2026-07-24. 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 system has to reach the panel at a known address, so a panel that dials in by itself cannot be used, and the encrypted link cannot be checked against a certificate.
Liveness / keepalive	Yes	—
Time synchronization	Yes	—
Offline audit recovery	Partially	Events recorded while the connection was down are sent by the panel afterwards, but there is no guarantee how far back they reach or that none of them arrives twice.
Health & supervision	Yes	—
Configuration & reset audit	Partially	Changes made to the panel settings are recorded, but wiping the panel back to its factory or default state is not recorded as its own audit entry.
Configuration discovery	Partially	The panel, its expansion modules, inputs, outputs, readers and doors all have to be entered by hand; nothing is read in from the hardware automatically.

Feature	Supported	Limitation
Credential management	Partially	People can be given cards and PIN codes, but fingerprints, phone credentials and cards that stop working after a set number of uses cannot be sent to the panel.
Card formats	Partially	Cards are recognised only by their full number in one of seven fixed lengths, so the site and card numbers printed on a card cannot be entered separately.
Sync mode	Yes	—
Reset & restore	Yes	—
Double-sync safety	Partially	Sending the same people to the panel a second time is expected to change nothing, but this has not been confirmed on real hardware.
Schedules / time profiles	Yes	—
Access levels / groups	Yes	—
Holidays	Yes	—
Antipassback	Yes	—
Door control	Partially	A door can be released for a moment and switched between locked and unlocked, but it cannot be held open permanently and there is no single emergency lockdown.
Reader mode / enable	Partially	A reader keeps the mode it was given when it was set up; it cannot be switched off or moved to another mode, such as card plus PIN, while the system runs.
Access events	Yes	—
Enrollment	Partially	A new card can be registered by presenting it at a reader within a minute, but PIN codes, fingerprints and face data still have to be entered by hand.

Feature	Supported	Limitation
Arm / disarm	Partially	An area can be armed fully, armed despite open detectors, and disarmed, but partial modes such as guarding only the perimeter while people stay inside are not available.
Bypass	Yes	—
Alarm reset	No — the hardware cannot do it	A triggered alarm cannot be cleared from the system; someone has to reset it at the panel or a keypad.
Partitions / zones	Yes	—
Alarms / tampers / troubles / restores	Yes	—
User-code management	Partially	PIN codes reach the panel, but a code that may only arm, or one that silently signals a person is being forced, cannot be set up from the system.
Entry / exit delay	Partially	Each detection point has its own entry and exit delay time, but the running countdown after someone enters or before an area arms is not shown anywhere.
Sounder / alarm control	No — the hardware cannot do it	Sirens cannot be silenced, sounded or tested from the system; that has to be done at the panel.

Feature	Supported	Limitation
Panic / duress / emergency	Partially	It is reported when someone enters the code that signals being forced, but panic, medical and evacuation calls are not, and no emergency can be raised from the system.

Feature	Supported	Limitation
Inputs	Yes	—
Outputs	Yes	—
Output schedules	No — the hardware cannot do it	Outputs and relays can only be switched on and off as they are needed; they cannot be given a timetable that the panel follows on its own.

Feature	Supported	Limitation
External lifecycle	Yes	—
Shared transport	Yes	—
Platform limits / SDK errors	Partially	Commands that fail, time out or are refused by the panel are retried and reported, but a dial-in connection and certificate-checked encryption cannot be selected at all.