Anybody use both the internal access features of an X255 and the external functions of using multiple ACM modules on the same installation?
How did it work out?
Can you have a single code that can operate as an access code at a keypad setup with access functions and then use that same code at another keypad for arming and disarming. Seems to me on the smaller panels a user code can be one or the other (access or arming) but not both.
I've got an application that would max out the access capability of an X255. I know I may have to step up to a different access system, but I just somehow like the idea of using the X255 for this application. Its got an old SK Access 2000 combo panel in their now, and it does work. Its been working pretty reliably for ten years now, but its got about 50 alarm points on its little 16 zone brain. It would sure be nice to throw a panel in there that could handle 200+ zones. I wired the building so it could be done that way. Everything is either home run or run to major j-boxes with plenty of room to tie stuff down and large cables going back to the panel.
The biggest reason for the upgrade though is they want to expand and have a little more modern control of their systems via their lan. It looks like the PCD Manager pair with an X255 would do that for them nicely. The other thing is they just bought another building. They have a dedicated fiber run to the new building so LAN management of a second system would be a piece of cake. The 2nd building would not max out an X255 system, but it would work nicely for it and handle all the doors with a little room for growth.