Keypad Status
A device with a keyboard and display that allows users to enter codes, arm and disarm areas, view current and past events, and perform system functions, such as: silencing alarm bells and changing user codes. Keypads can have LED, LCD alphanumeric, or vacuum fluorescent alphanumeric displays.
The parent device of a keypad is always a panel. There are no device types which have a keypad as a parent device.
Device Status
Readers have the following device status values.
Disabled: The device remains in the software but no real-time events are displayed. The device can be added back into the software without re-programming it. Only operators can disable a device.
Offline: The device is offline, that is, not communicating with its parent sub-controller.
Online: The device is online and communicating normally.
Unknown: State of the device is not known to the system because the parent device is in a state such as unknown, offline, stopped, or failed.