What it can do — Paradox EVO Intrusion Panel
Feature by feature, as assessed on 2026-06-12. Read the limitation column before you
promise a customer something the hardware cannot do.
Connection, health and audit
| Feature |
Supported |
Limitation |
| Connection & session |
Yes |
— |
| Liveness / keepalive |
Yes |
— |
| Time synchronization |
Yes |
— |
| Offline audit recovery |
Yes |
— |
| Health & supervision |
Yes |
— |
| Configuration & reset audit |
Partially |
The system records when a bus module is added or removed and when an installer enters programming, but the panel never reports a reset to factory settings or a wipe of its stored programming, so such a reset leaves no trace in the audit trail. |
| Configuration discovery |
Yes |
— |
Access control
| Feature |
Supported |
Limitation |
| Credential management |
Yes |
— |
| Card formats |
Partially |
Every card number is cut into a site number and a card number at one fixed length, so cards issued in a longer format lose their leading digits and two different cards can end up looking the same to the panel. |
| Sync mode |
Yes |
— |
| Reset & restore |
Partially |
The people, access rights and time schedules held in the panel can be wiped, but they are not put back automatically afterwards; the transfer has to be started again by hand. |
| Double-sync safety |
Partially |
After the panel reconnects, people and their rights can be written to it again even though nothing has changed. |
| Schedules / time profiles |
Yes |
— |
| Access levels / groups |
Yes |
— |
| Holidays |
Partially |
Time restrictions do not treat public holidays differently; a holiday is handled as the ordinary weekday it falls on. |
| Antipassback |
Not included |
There is no way to stop a card being handed back and used again by a second person at the same door. |
| Door control |
Partially |
A door can be released briefly, held open, or put back to normal card operation, but it cannot be shut to valid cards from the system; barring someone has to be done by taking away their access rights. |
| Reader mode / enable |
Not included |
Readers cannot be switched off or changed to another mode, such as card plus PIN, from the system. |
| Access events |
Yes |
— |
| Enrollment |
Yes |
— |
Intrusion detection
| Feature |
Supported |
Limitation |
| Arm / disarm |
Yes |
— |
| Bypass |
Yes |
— |
| Alarm reset |
Not included |
An alarm that has gone off cannot be cleared from the system; someone has to do it at a keypad. |
| Partitions / zones |
Yes |
— |
| Alarms / tampers / troubles / restores |
Partially |
Alarms, tampers, faults and their return to normal are reported, but a panel that has lost its clock and anyone connecting to it with the vendor's programming software leave no trace in the records. |
| User-code management |
Yes |
— |
| 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 a keypad. |
| Feature |
Supported |
Limitation |
| Inputs |
No — the hardware cannot do it |
The panel's detection inputs are its alarm zones and are shown as intrusion zones, so there is no separate list of general-purpose inputs to watch on their own. |
| Outputs |
Yes |
— |
| Output schedules |
Not included |
Outputs can only be switched on and off on demand; they cannot be set to switch by themselves at set times. |