What this guide helps with
This Pro guide organizes PDK work into three separately provable layers: connect the Cloud Node and controllers, authorize the person and credential through the correct rules, then verify the output and physical door. It distinguishes current and legacy hardware paths so a technician does not apply the wrong discovery, Ethernet, or WiMAC procedure.
Use it when a Cloud Node is offline, a controller will not discover or stay connected, a credential is denied, access is granted but the opening remains locked, a WiMAC path is unstable, or a migration needs pilot evidence and rollback notes.
What you will learn
- Identify the PDK software generation, Cloud Node model, controller family, reader path, and installed communication modules.
- Separate cloud connectivity, local Node-to-controller communication, authorization logic, and physical door release.
- Commission Red, Legacy Ethernet, and WiMAC paths using generation-appropriate checks.
- Validate people, credentials, card formats, groups, rules, schedules, and partitions with real accepted and denied events.
- Trace a granted event through relay output, power supply, FAI, lock hardware, REX, and DPS behavior.
- Plan migrations, imports, pilot tests, remote actions, and documented site handoff without bypassing life-safety functions.
Built for the work in front of you
Map the installed generation
System scope, architecture, inventory, Node preflight, and exact Red, Legacy, Ethernet, and WiMAC distinctions.
Connect controllers
Node offline checks, discovery, Ethernet and Lantronix paths, WiMAC design, range evidence, repeaters, and Continuity.
Authorize credentials
Onboarding, reader data, access logic, rules, schedules, people, partitions, card formats, and facility-code policy.
Migrate and test
Migration planning, people import, pilot validation, approved remote actions, and offline limitations.
Diagnose the opening
Granted-but-locked faults, inputs, worked cases, service matrix, commissioning checklist, and pocket fault ladder.
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Take the field tools with you
One-Page Field Checklist
FreeA commissioning and turnover checklist for Nodes, controllers, network paths, credentials, doors, egress, evidence, and as-builts.
Quick-Reference Sheet
FreeA one-page fault ladder for Node, controller, WiMAC, credential, relay, and door-level symptoms.
Use in context. Use the exact PDK documentation and installed software help for the relevant generation and hardware. Never bypass REX release, fire-alarm interface, panic hardware, emergency egress, or approved life-safety behavior to make a test pass.
