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Guide Wiring a door to a Mercury MP1501 To wire a door to a Mercury MP1501, land the reader on TB1301, door contact and exit button on IN1 and IN2, the maglock on K1 NC, and run it on PoE or 12 V. Guide Wiring a door to a Mercury MP1502 To wire a door to a Mercury MP1502, land the reader on TB1603, door contact and exit button on IN1 and IN2, the maglock on relay 1 NC, and 12–24 V on TB300.Avigilon Video 2
Fix ACC Client: Some options will be disabled until all servers are upgraded ACC Client says “Some options will be disabled until all servers are upgraded”? It’s holding stale site details. Reset its settings to fix it. Guide Upgrading from ACC 5 to Unity 8 ACC 5 can't go straight to Unity 8. Go through ACC 7 first, and keep your config and license keys safe on the way.Gaming 1
Guide Enshrouded server runbook Rebuild an Enshrouded dedicated server on Windows 11 from a bare install: SteamCMD, ports, an update script and a Windows service with a nightly restart.Networking 2
Guide Ping to a log file with timestamps To log a continuous ping with timestamps on Windows, pipe ping -t through PowerShell. Every reply and timeout is stamped with the date and time. Guide Test download speed from a Linux terminal with wget To test download speed from a Linux terminal, run wget -O /dev/null on a large test file. wget throws the data away and prints the average speed.Windows 3
Guide Find a lost file anywhere on your PC with PowerShell Find a lost file with PowerShell: run Get-ChildItem -Recurse with its name. It checks every folder on your drives and lists each match with its full path. Guide Repair Windows system files with DISM and SFC To repair corrupted Windows system files, run DISM RestoreHealth to fix the component store, then sfc /scannow to fix the files, both as administrator. Fix The selected disk has an MBR partition table If Windows Setup says the selected disk has an MBR partition table, wipe the disk and convert it to GPT with diskpart, from Setup’s own command prompt.Nothing matches. Try another filter, or press / to search the whole site.