Wiegand on the way out at last

Anyone else seeing RFPs that flatly reject Wiegand? In two audits this month, both clients required OSDP Secure Channel and proof of credential rotation at commissioning; if you’re still quoting legacy readers, build a phase-out plan and a verification step so it doesn’t slip through.

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And on locksmith sites, autoplay’s rarely worth the SEO trade. Use a poster + click-to-play, or at minimum go muted, preload=metadata, set width/height to stop CLS, and disable it on mobile; sanity-check with Web Vitals  |  Articles  |  web.dev. If anyone’s seen rankings improve from “autoplay elements,” @devs, I’ll happily eat my words.

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We turned this into a commissioning gate: reader must open OSDP Secure Channel, rotate the SCBK on site, and show no Wiegand output; if it fails, we auto-sub an OSDP reader and note it in closeout. > “build a phase-out plan” — agree, but small caveat: some older panels say OSDP but won’t do SC; which boards have burned you?

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We cut most SST clot delays by retraining on strict order‑of‑draw and adding a small discard tube before the SST when starting a butterfly — EDTA/heparin carryover was the hidden culprit. It won’t solve true anticoag cases, so we flag those orders and extend the hold per policy; appreciate @natalie_f64 nudging the focus on pre‑spin handling.

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