Re: the ElkM1 "RP access code": a sham?

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A most excellent question.  The answer is, it is not a sham.  It is
functional.  It protects some other party from connecting to the M1 so
long as they don't know the RP Code.  If you were to go to a different
computer - one that had never been used to connect to the panel, and
enter some random code, it would not connect.  Why does yours?  Good
question.  Here's how it works:

ElkRP remembers the last RP Access code used to connect to the control.
 If you change the code in ElkRP, then connect to the control, ElkRP
tries the new code which gets rejected.  It then tries the last known
good code, which will likely work.  If it works, ElkRP programs the new
code into the panel and saves it to the database.

If someone else tries to connect to the control, but they don't have a
copy of your database or the account in the database, they'll have one
million codes to try!

I hope this clears it up.


Leo wrote:
> I am really wondering what the purpose/ functionality is of the ElkM1
> "RP access code". It appears to have NO functionality, and that
> whatever it is, the M1 will recognize it as valid. I am doing this
> type of test:
>
>
> Using the ElkRP remote programming tool from a remote location, I
> start off connecting to the M1 as usual; then I disconnect, and change
> the "RP access code"; then I try to connect again, and ... the M1 lets
> me! What's going on? There must be something I don't understand with
> the "RP access code".
>
> TIA. Leo