Honeywell VISTAKEY User Guide - Page 53

Reduced Capability Mode General Information To help ensure that a user has access in the rare event of a problem, the VistaKey contains a Reduced Capability Mode (RCM), which allows the system to operate on the card database stored in the VistaKey. The VistaKey automatically enters RCM in the event communication between the VistaKey and the alarm panel is lost for a period of two or more minutes (providing that the VistaKey has power applied). The RCM mode automatically ends within one minute after communications are restored. NOTE: The card database is downloaded from the alarm panel to the VistaKey within ten minutes of leaving #79 mode, an alarm panel download, VistaKey module powerup, or reaching 12 midnight. Therefore, if the system should enter RCM while you are working on the card database, it is possible that your recent changes may not have been downloaded and the VistaKey is operating on the card database as it existed before you started working on it. RCM Description When the VistaKey has entered RCM, the alarm panel keypad displays the zones controlled by the VistaKey as being in "Check," and the system grants access at the access point being controlled by the VistaKey. While operating in RCM, the VistaKey has the following capabilities and limitations: • On entering RCM, the door/access point is put into the protect/normal mode regardless of the state it was in previously (e.g., locked, bypassed, or exit only). • While in RCM, the VistaKey cannot grant a card access based on executive privilege that it would normally inherit from its access group assignment; however, it will do this based on executive privilege assigned to the card itself. - 53 -