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Installation Manual | IM-20220201-LG-01 Access Control | Mobile Access | Cosmos Access |

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Start Fore!box

• Unpack the Fore!box and power up the Fore!box and put the network cable in.

• The standard IP Adress of the Fore!box is https://192.168.1.150.

• Login with Username and Password.

• (the username and password are included in the instruction manual)

• Open the Network tab.

• Change the Network Settings in the settings you prefer.

• Save the Settings.

• After saving the setting the Fore! is approachable on the new IP Adress.

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Date / Time

• Select the right timezone.

• If you want to change the time , select the arrow. The time will be displayed in box below.

• Adjust the date and time and Save the settings

• If you want to set a NTP Server, select the checkbox an fill in the ip address of the NTP Server.

For GMT+1:00 hour you can use this ip address 193.67.79.202

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Install Fore! upgrade package

• Download the latest Fore! package

• Browse to https://192.168.1.150 to open the Fore!Box webinterface (when 192.168.1.150 is the ip address of your Fore!box)

• Login with Username and Password

• Open the Update tab

• Click Browse to select a Fore! package

• Click Update to start the update.

• You can follow the update in the messages tab ( system log ). Update is ready when the system says 'Upgrade ending'

• After 5 minutes you will be redirected to the new Fore!box maintenance page.

• (If you are not redirected automatically you can open it yourself by browsing to https://192.168.1.150)

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• if your Fore! version is below 1.7.0.1335, use this package. * http://www.keyprocessor.com/remove_AUDIT_data.taz

• the package will erase the audit data en restart the Fore!box . If you don't upload the package the upgrade will take a hour.

• Go to the update tab , choose file and upload remove_AUDIT_data.taz.( it will restart the database , wait 4 min.)

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Backup / Restore

Use the System backup / restore page to create and restore Fore! backups. A Fore! backup contains all configuration data and historical transactions. Camera images are not included in a backup.

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Fore! creates a daily backup to usb only at the time specified in the Start field. The default backup directory is /media/usb but this location can be changed by clicking the browse button and selecting a different directory. The backup will result in a file named data.taz and will overwrite the previous backup.

Use the Backup now button to start a backup immediately.

To restore a previously made backup you can upload it by using the Restore button.

Reboot / Shutdown Fore!box

• Go the IP Adress of the Fore!box (standard https://192.168.1.150).

• Login with Username and Password.

• (the standard username and password are included in the instruction manual)

• Open the System tab.

• If you want to Shutdown the Fore!box use the Shutdown Button

• If you want to Restart the Fore!box use the Restart Button

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Fore! Manuals

Access

In Fore! all access control features are centered around card readers. Each card reader has a set of 6 default I/Os that are used to interact with the door. In case a door has two card readers (one inside and one outside) the card readers will share the 6 I/Os. At the access settings page you can discover and add card readers to your system.

Discovery

Use the Discover button to automatically discover all card readers that are present in your installation. Fore! will not detect Polyx NF+ network controllers which have no readers connected. If your reader is not discovered you can the Reader troubleshooting guide to fix common issues with your installation.

Note After discovering and adding a card reader to Fore! the firmware of the Polyx NF+ and the card reader will be updated. The update takes about 5 minutes and during this time both card readers on that Polyx NF+ do not work.

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The Status field is used to set the current state of the reader. The three options are:

• Open: The door is open and can be opened by anyone.

• Close: The door is closed and can not be opened using an access card.

• Auto: The door is normally closed but can be opened by presenting an access card with sufficient privileges.

The Area change setting indicates how the area of a person should be changed when he uses this card reader. By default Fore! has two access areas: a person can be Inside or Outside. The three options are:

• To in: Area of the person is set to Inside.

• To out: Area of the person is set to Outside.

• No change: Area of the person is not changed.

When PIN code required is checked a person will be asked to enter a pincode after presenting his card to the card reader. This option only works in combination with Sirius F80P pincode readers.

Advanced options

The Polyx MAC settings shows the MAC address of the Polyx NF+ of this card reader.

The Function setting can be used when a door outfitted with two card readers: one inside and one outside. The two options are:

• Normal: The card reader uses it's own set of 6 I/Os.

• Secondary reader: The card reader acts as a secondary reader and uses the same 6 I/Os as the primary card reader. The primary card reader should always be the other card reader on the same Polyx NF+ and should have its function set to Normal.

I/Os

Each card reader has 6 I/Os reserved on the Polyx NF+. See the Polyx NF+ Manual for wiring instructions for each I/O. You can select which of the 6 I/Os you have connected for this door:

• Detection loop: Indicates that a (car) detection loop is connected to this input. When checked the reader will only grant access when the input is closed, for example only when a car is present on the detection loop.

• Request to exit: Indicates that a request to exit button is connected to this input. When checked the door will open when the button is pushed.

• Door contact: Indicates that a (magnetic) door contact is connected to this input. When checked the system knows whether a door is actually opened or closed.

• Arm intrusion: Indicates that an arm intrusion button is connected to this input. When checked the reader will go in arming mode as long as the button is pressed.

• Door relay: Indicates that a door relay is connected to this output. This output is used to open the door.

• Door open too long: Indicates that a door alarm (light or buzzer) is connected to this output. When checked the output will activate when the door has been opened too long (someone blocked the door).

The Door open limit sets the time in millisends a door can be open before the Door open too long alarm will be actived.

Tip: I/Os that are not used by the reader can be used as Custom I/O

Anti pass-back

Anti pass-back is a mechanism preventing an access card from being used to enter an area a second time without first leaving it (so that the card can not be passed back to a second person who wants to enter). If the area change is set to in only persons which are currently outside will be granted access. If the area change is set to out only persons which are currently inside will be granted access.

Warning: In order for anti pass-back to work correctly all exterior doors of your building should be equipped with both ingoing and outgoing card readers. Persons should not be able to enter or leave your building without using their access card.

The three options are:

• No: No anti pass-back is activated.

• Normal: Hard anti pass-back is activated. A person will first have to go outside before he is granted access inside again.

• Time: Time anti pass-back is activated. Within a certain time limit a person will first have to go outside before he is granted access inside again.

The APB time limit sets the time limit for Time anti pass-back.

When you want to reset the Anti pass-back of a person , go to the Presense list on your dashboard and stand on the name of the person and a cross ( X ) will be showed. You can click on the cross and the persons Anti pass-back will be reset to outside.

Office mode time schedule

With office mode time schedule you can set a door in open or normal modus with a card with office rights in the selected Time schedules. When you present a card for the first time the door will go in open modus en stay open. When you present a card again the door will go in normal modus. The door will only go in the office modus during the selected Time schedules. When the Time schedules ends, the door will go in normal modus.

Latching

Unlatch time is the time in milliseconds which the door relay is activated when the door is opened. Alternative unlatch time is the time in milliseconds which the door relay is activated when the door is opened by a person requiring an alternative unlatch time. This can be set at the employees or visitors settings page.

Latch on time schedule can be used to change the Status of a door to open or closed according to a time schedule.

Cameras

Fore! integrates with IP security cameras, DVR's, NVR's and encoders that have implemented the ONVIF standard. Fore! can also act as a small scale network video recorder (NVR) for maximum 4 cameras.

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Discovery

Use the Discover button to detect all available ONVIF cameras in your network. If your camera is not discovered you can use the Camera troubleshooting guide to fix common issues with your installation.

Settings

The Login and Password are used to login to the camera using the ONVIF protocol.

When a camera is set to Active Fore! will fetch live video images from the camera and show them it the interface. When Store video is checked Fore! will also store the video images on the harddisk. Fore! will try to create its own (M)JPEG ONVIF profile on the camera. If this fail it will use the highest quality (M)JPEG profile it can find.

Fore! stores video as a series of JPEG images in a folder on the harddisk. The location of the folder can be set at the image storage settings page. To reduce the file size Fore! by default uses motion detection to determine which images to store. For each camera the motion detection sensitivity can be set from 0% (no images stored) to 100% (all images stored).

Use the Video max storage days setting to set the maximum number of days video images are allowed to be stored.

Note The actual number of days of video storage of your Fore! server depends on harddisk size, number of connected cameras, the used bitrate and the amount of motion.

NVR / DVR / Encoders

ONVIF devices with multiple channels will be shown with the following icon: 

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. These devices will have an additional Discover button on the settings page that can be used to add their individual channels to Fore!.

Card codings

On the card coding settings page you can select which card coding Fore! should use as default card coding when adding new cards.

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You can you use 6 types of access card codings with Fore!:

• Fore! default card

• UID

• Wiegand 26

• Wiegand other

• PX007A

• Custom

Card codings for Sirius readers

The Fore! default card and UID are used in combination with Sirius F30, Sirius F80 and Sirius F80P card readers. When a card is presented to a Sirius reader it will first try to read it as a Fore! default card. If this fails it will try to read the UID of the card.

All card codings

Check the All card codings checkbox when you want to use all card coding. The readers will automatic choose the rights card coding when the card is present to a reader.

Fore! default card

The Fore! default card coding is used when you are using Fore! Mifare encoded cards. Fore! Mifare cards can only be created by Keyprocessor / Fore! and use an 8 digit decimal card number e.g. "21208521".

All manufactured Fore! Mifare access cards (and tags) have a unique card number encoded in their sector. The card numbers are generated in random order. The Fore! Mifare card uses a Mifare Classic chip. This card is the default option in Fore! and currently offers the highest level of security.

UID

When you prefer to use your own access cards you can use any ISO/IEC 14443 Type A 13.56 MHz contactless smart card. Fore! will then use the unique identifier (UID) also known as card serial number (CSR) as a card number. Fore! uses a 14 digit hexadecimal byte swapped representation of the UID, for example "1a2b3c4d5e6f78" for a 7 byte UID or "0000001a2b3c4d" for a 4 byte UID.

You an use this option with most types of Mifare and Desfire access cards.

Card codings for Wiegand readers

If the Wiegand converter retrieves an input it will use the lenght of the input to determine which card coding should be used: if the input is 26 bit long a Wiegand 26 card number will be returned. If the input lenght is not equal to 26 bit it will return a Wiegand other card number.

Wiegand 26

A 26 bit input to the Wiegand converter is interpreted as a Wiegand 26 standard encoded access card. The format has one parity bit, 8 bits of facility code, 16 bits of ID code, and a trailing parity bit for a total of 26 bits. In Fore! this card is is represented using a 8 digit decimal number, e.g. "01200345" for a card with facility code "012" and card number "00345".

Wiegand other

All other input lenghts to the Wiegand converter are interpreted in the following way. The first and last bits are considered parity bits and not used. From the remaining bits the last 56 are converted to a 14 digit hexadecimal number e.g. "1a2b3c4d5e6f78".

Note In most cases this representation will not match the number that is printed on the card.

PX007A

Custom

The Custom card coding can be use with card with a Secret and Offset. Set the right Secret parameter en Offset parameter and the card will start to count form 0001 till ....

Custom Fields

Custom fields can be used to add your own input fields to the employees and visitors page.

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Custom I/O

When an I/O in your installation is not in use by a card reader it can be used for other purposes as a custom I/O. Please refer to the Polyx NF+ Manual for wiring instructions.

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Discovery

You can use the Discover button to find available I/Os. Fore! will only discover I/Os of Polyx NF+ network controllers that have at least one card reader configured.

Settings

The Polyx MAC and the I/O address can be used to identify the I/O on the Polyx NF+.

There are two Types of I/O: Input and Output.

Input

Each input has a NO/NC setting which can be set to Normally open or Normally closed.

When an input is activated a transaction is generated in Fore! For each configured custom input a special notification handling setting is created. Using this setting a notification or alarm can be triggered and messaging can be activated.

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Output

Each output has a NO/NC setting which can be set to Normally open or Normally closed.

An output can have one of three modes:

• Manual: The output is triggered manually using the I/O widgets. Use Set output status to set the initial state of the output: Always high or Always low.

• Follow input: The output follows the state of another input. Use Follow this input to set the input which should be followed. You can select any input available in Fore! including the inputs used by readers. You can not follow an output.

• Follow time schedule: The output follows a time schedule. Use Follow this time schedule to set the time schedule which should be followed.

Email messaging

Use email messaging to send emails when a notification or alarm occurs.

Note: In order to actually send email messages you have to enable messages for a notification in the notification handling settings.

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You can configure an SMTP server that Fore! will use to send its email.

Configure a return email address in the Send from field. Enter the email addresses of one or more recipients to the Send to field. You can add multiple recipients to the Send to field separated by a semicolon ;. Enter the SMTP Host, a Port, Username and Password and select the type of Security that is used by the server.

Tip: Use the Send test message button to send a test message using the saved settings.

Employees

Employees in Fore! are persons who have a access to card readers during selected time schedules.

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On the employee page a name and key number can be set for each employee. Optionally a PIN code can be defined for each employee for installations that include pincode readers.

Tip You can automatically add a key number to an employee by presenting an unknown card to a reader when the employee page is opened.

When the Override anti pass-back checkbox is checked the key number of this employee will not be limited by the anti pass-back mechanism that can be configured on readers. This setting is especially useful for employees designated to organize emergency evacuations of a building.

Use the Alternative unlatch time checkbox to indicate that this employee requires doors to be opened longer than normally. You can set the lenght of the alternative unlatch time at the access page of each reader.

Check the Arm/disarm intrusion checkbox to allow the employee to arm and disarm the intrusion system using the card readers. An employee can only arm and disarm at readers where he has access at that time.

Check the Office checkbox to allow the employee do set a door in office modus. The door can only be set in office modus if the time schedule is set at the the reader.

You can add your own fields to the employee (and visitor) form using Custom fields.

In the access table all card readers are listed with a checkbox for every time schedule. Check the checkbox to give an employee access to that card reader during that time schedule.

Tip You can use drag-and-drop to copy the access settings from one employee to another employee.

Event search

Use the event search page to search for transactions in your Fore! system.

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Select a From and To date and time to filter the list of the results. Select All types to get all transactions or select and object to get only transactions related to that object. Use the Export events (CSV) button to export the filtered list of events to CSV.

Holidays

Holidays can be configured in Fore! to act as an exception to a time schedule during certain days. This allows you to restrict access or to keep doors shut during special days of the year. Holidays in Fore! are not recurring and have to be separately configured for each year.

Do not forget to check the Follow holiday schedule checkbox at the time schedule in order for it to follow your configured holidays.

Depending on the time configuration holidays function in the following way:

When no start time and end time are configured time schedules (that are configured to follow holidays) will stay inactive the whole day during the configured dates (indicated in red on the time bar).

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Example: during Christmas 2014 time schedules are inactive for the whole day.

When start time and end time are configured time schedules will follow their normal schedule between the start time and end time (indicated as green on the time bar). Outside of the start time and end time the time schedules will be inactive.

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Example: on Queensday 2014 the building is closed in the afternoon. In the morning time schedules follow their normal routine.

Image storage

Using the image storage settings you can select where on the server you want to store the camera images and how much disk space you want to use. Fore! can only store camera images to a local disk on the server.

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The Max disk usage sets the maximum size of all stored video images as a percentage relative to the size of the harddisk.

Tip You can set a maximum number of days that camera images are stored for each camera individually at the camera settings.

Use the Alternative location to set a path on the server where the camera images should be saved. The default image store directory is \home\dvrec.

Intercom groups

Intercom groups are used to group intercom stations. Fore! uses intercom groups and their Time Schedules to route intercom calls.

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Intercom

Fore! has an integrated SIP intercom server. Intercoms and VOIP-phones that support the SIP protocol can connect to Fore!.

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The SIP protocol does not support automatic discovery of intercom devices. Instead, for each intercom an account has to be created at the server. An account consists of a phone number (also known as Station ID or user name) and a password. Intercom stations can register themselves using this Station ID and password to the server.

Direct calling

After an intercom station is successfully registered you can call it directly from another intercom stations using the Station ID (or stationID@ip.of.fore.server) as its phone number, e.g. 1001 or 1001@192.168.1.150.

Call routing

In order to let Fore! route your intercom calls to the correct intercom stations you have to set the Type and Intercom groups.

Type has the following two options:

• Master: Use for intercoms stations where calls are received.

• Slave: Use for intercoms stations where calls are started.

Add the intercom to one or more intercom groups using the intercom group checkbox list.

When a Slave intercom calls fore@ip.of.fore.server (e.g. fore@192.168.1.150) all Master intercom stations that are in the same intercom group as the Slave intercom will start ringing, but only when the intercom group is active according to its time

Example If you want a different intercom to be ringing depending on the time of the day you create two intercom groups each with a different time schedule. You add the Slave intercom to both groups and the Master intercoms each to a different intercom group.

Note You can use any unknown phone number instead of fore@ip.of.fore.server to route your calls with Fore!

Intrusion Detection

the supported hardware list for compatible intrusion panels.

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Discovery

Use the Discover button to automatically discover compatible intrusion panels that are present in your network. Fore! will scan all ip addresses in the same /24 subnet as the server (e.g. server 192.168.1.150 will scan 192.168.1.1 till 192.168.1.254). If the MAC address of an intrusion panel is detected Fore! will try to load the intrusion driver specific to that intrusion panel.

Supported Intrusion detection

Alphatronics

• AlphaVision XL ( > version 2.4 )

• AlphaVision ML ( > version 3.51)

• GE

• Advisor MASTER ATS 3000

• Advisor MASTER ATS 4000

• Advisor MASTER ATS 4500

• Honeywell

• Galaxy Dimension series

• Satel

• Integra series

• Jablotron

• Jablotron 100

Notification handling

Using the notification handling settings a user can determine which events should result in a notification or an alarm.

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Use Event to set if the transaction should results in a Notification or Alarm or None. When Messaging is enabled Fore! will also try to send notifications and alarms by email or to your mobile phone using Push messaging.

Push messaging

Using push messaging you can send messages to the Fore! app on your smartphone.

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Push messages are delivered over the internet to registered smart phones even if they are not directly connected to your network. You can register your smart phone using the Fore! app on that smart phone only. Use the Remove registration button to remove a registred smart phone.

Note: In order to actually send push messages you have to enable messages for a notification in the notification handling settings.

Presence

Presence can be showed on the dashboard.Presence can be showed for :

• Visitors

• Employees

• Overall - Visitors and Employees

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Go to your dashboard and unlock it with the little pin at the left bottom corner of your dashboard.Click on one of the + and select the presence list you want.You can make the list bigger or smaller at the right bottom corner of the list.

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When a person is in the presence list and you want to delete this person out of the list, you can select the person anda cross will appear. Click on the cross and the person will be deleted from the list. Anti pass-back will also be reset.

Relations

Relations are used to connect cameras, card readers, intrusion detectors and intercom stations to each other.

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The possible relations and their effect in Fore! are listed below:

• Camera - Card reader: Camera images will be shown at the card reader widget. Access transactions will be related to video clips.

• Camera - Intrusion detector: Camera images will be shown with intrusion alarms. Intrusion transactions wil lbe related to video clips.

• Camera - Intercom: Live camera images will be shown at the video intercom widget when the intercom calls.

• Card reader - Intercom: Related door can be opened at the intercom widget.

Remote Access

Fore! can help you to set up remote access to your Fore! installation.