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HID Amico Biometric Reader

HID Amico VL35LF / VL70LF facial-recognition access terminal over its HTTP/JSON API — face, card, PIN and QR identification, terminal and EAM door relays, alarm zones and GPIO inputs.

Manufacturer HID Global
Integration version 1.0.0
Used for access control
Connects over the manufacturer's own interface
Finds hardware by itself yes — the panel is read in and what it finds appears in the tree
Sets the hardware clock yes

What can be connected

The tree an installer builds: each arrow shows what is mounted under what, and how many of them one parent takes.

graph TD
    AmicoTerminal["Amico Terminal"]
    AmicoReader["Amico Reader"]
    AmicoDoor["Amico Door"]
    AmicoEamDoor["Amico EAM Door"]
    AmicoAlarmZone["Amico Alarm Zone"]
    AmicoInput["Amico Input"]
    AmicoTerminal -->|up to 1| AmicoReader
    AmicoTerminal -->|up to 4| AmicoDoor
    AmicoTerminal -->|many| AmicoEamDoor
    AmicoTerminal -->|up to 5| AmicoAlarmZone
    AmicoTerminal -->|up to 3| AmicoInput

In this guide

Connecting the hardware Not documented yet for this adapter
Configuration Everything you can add, what it needs filled in, and what you can command it to do
What it can do Feature-by-feature, including what this hardware cannot do
Events What appears in the event log, and how serious it is

| Cards and access rights | What is stored in the hardware and how much of it fits |

| Tested behaviour | What was verified on real hardware, and with what result |