Adding New Slave Doors

Doors associated with the Mx controller can be considered either master or slave. Slave doors possess the same reader values as the master on which they depend. An example of a slave door would be an exit reader on the other side of an entry reader, sharing the same relays and contacts as the master.

To add a slave door:

  1. In the system tree window, right-click on the Mx that will control the new door.
  2. Select New Slave Door... from the drop-down list.



    The Slave Door Wizard appears. This is similar to the Door creation screen in the New Mx Controller Wizard, except that many of the fields are not activated, but are, instead, depend on the master door.
  3. From the Slave Door dialog box, select the name in the drop-down list that represents the available doors and to select particular door to configure the slave reader of the same door.


  4. Enter a new slave door name. A unique number will be assigned by a system. This is the reader ID of the door (by default the slave door ID will start from 9).

    The reader protocol will be set to Wiegand (via Match DS47) indicating that it takes the same configuration as the primary or master reader.

  5. Click Finish.

    The created slave door (Second Reader) is initially in an unknown state.

  6. To bring up the second reader the controller needs to be disconnected then reconnected using the right-click option list.

See also:

Configuring Doors

Adding New Doors