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Easier solution - just use a small DC wall wart off of one of the surge protected but non-UPS'ed 120V outlets on the UPS to an input on the M1. When the main power goes down, the UPS keeps things up but the M1 knows right away! No need for USB ports or an M1XSP to the UPS.

How 'bout this.... Seems like the ELK M!G is built to really use Weigand for access events. What if I use something like this; click here These appear to use a 26-bit Weigand compliant format. There are a bunch of them on the market, actually. I could then effectively have the keypad code...

Steve - thanks for the welcome! And thanks for that link - it is close to what I want to do - but I'm trying to do this with actual keypads, not keyfobs of any type. Wife is concerned that the kids will lose them. Also we might want to give someone a code while we're away, to let them into the...

So, here's something I can't seem to figure out, after reading here quite a bit. If I have an M1G with a couple of ELK keypads deployed (and used for what they typically are used for), then want to add a new ELK keypad that is specifically for access control (such as firing a door strike etc) -...