Read Work and Gym RFID Badges

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Read Work and Gym RFID Badges

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I just got the Adafruit PN532 NFC/RFID Controller Shield and have it working with blank cards that I bought from Adafruit. It is unable to recognize my work pass and my gym key fob. Both my work pass and my gym pass are manufactured by HID. Does anyone know if this reader can read HID RFID cards?

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Franklin97355
 
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Re: Read Work and Gym RFID Badges

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HID makes three different frequency tags so you would need to find out what frequency your tags sre using. After that the encoding may be an issue.

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Re: Read Work and Gym RFID Badges

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I am using the normal 13.56ghz tags that you are probably using and is 'supported' by the reader. Why doesnt it read!

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Re: Read Work and Gym RFID Badges

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I have the same issue. Did you ever get anywhere with this.

Frankly I'm disappointed that there doesn't seem to be much help with this shield when it comes to reading anything other than Mifare cards.

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Re: Read Work and Gym RFID Badges

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I'm not sure if this will help, but it talks about card compatibility with the NFC chip built into the Nexus S smartphone:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpos ... ostcount=6

It sounds like making sure the frequency matches is just the beginning. There's also a few proprietary protocols that are used. So there are some obstacles, but there should still be a few types of cards out there that you can read!

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