Create a ConfigCard with ConfigEditor

With a BALTECH ConfigCard, you can easily deploy a configuration by presenting the card to the readers. With BALTECH ConfigEditor, you can create a ConfigCard using the BALCFG configuration file.

With this method, project managers can create ConfigCards and provide them to technicians. Alternatively, technicians can create ConfigCards on-site in Uploader.

Equipment & requirements

• A reader to create the ConfigCard.

  Which readers are recommended?

  • For access control: ACCESS200
  • For print management: Micro Card Reader
  • For embedded or desktop applications: ID-engine Z BRICK

  Legacy readers with a firmware ID other than 1100 or 1096 will not work.

• A ConfigCard v2 (article number 60401-001-02 CRD-ConfigCard) (is rewritable)

  Alternatives to ConfigCard v2

  • If legacy firmware support is enabled, you can also use legacy BALTECH ConfigCards (without the addition v2 on the label).
  • If legacy firmware support is disabled, you can also use an unformatted MIFARE DESFire card (EV1 or above).

  Both cards are rewritable.

• The released configuration in BALCFG format

  My config contains a packaged firmware

  • Due to space limitations on ConfigCards, a packaged firmware, won't be included on the ConfigCard.

• Target readers with the following firmware:

  • If legacy firmware support is enabled:
    • Any firmware version
  • If legacy firmware support is disabled:
    • 1100 v2.00 or above
    • Custom firmware originally created as of November 2021

On print-management readers, some Reader Maintainer stock solutions must be removed first

If your print-management reader is configured with one of the following Reader Maintainer stock solutions, it must be removed first.

• HID Prox (type 138) / 37-bit card, 19-bit card number
• ioProx (type 139) / site code and card number
• EM4100-4102 (type 129) / reverse site code
• Cotag (type 163)
• Idteck (type 164)

To do so, create a ConfigCard with a reset configuration for your stock solution.

Detailed how-to

1. Request a reset configuration for your stock solution.

2. Create a ConfigCard containing the reset configuration.

3. Create a second ConfigCard containing the new configuration.

4. Present the ConfigCard with the reset configuration to each reader to remove the stock configuration.

5. Present the ConfigCard with new configuration to each reader to deploy this configuration.

Create ConfigCard

1. Connect a reader to your computer.

2. Open the latest version of BALTECH ConfigEditor.
   Download it here as part of BALTECH ToolSuite.

3. Open your BALCFG configuration file.

4. Click Create ConfigCard.

   

5. Place a BALTECH ConfigCard on the reader.

   

6. The configuration is being transferred to the card.

   When you see the success message, you can take the card off the reader and use it to deploy the configuration to other readers.