Mercury - Series 3 Hardware Notification

Mercury - Series 3 Hardware Notification

1.0 Introduction

Mercury is updating all their controllers and supporting peripherals with series 3 hardware revisions (the red coloured boards) and will no longer being supplying the series 2 hardware (green coloured boards). However, the series 3 hardware IS backwards compatible with the series 2 hardware. However, depending on the hardware type, there may be a dip switch setting or a procedural change required to ensure optimum compatibility between the hardware types. This document outlines a few things to be aware of when using series 3 hardware or combining it with series 2 hardware.

2.0 Minimum Firmware Revision

  1. Series 3 hardware requires Mercury firmware v1.24x or higher.

If you have Doors.NET V3.5.1.XX or v4.0.1, you will be using series 2 hardware that will likely not be compatible with series 3 hardware.
  • v3.5.1.22 SP1 has Mercury firmware v1.21.1
  • v4.0.1 has Mercury firmware v1.23.5

Neither of the above revisions are at a level that can support Series 3 hardware.

These revisions will support both Series 2 and Series 3 hardware:

  • v4.0.2.18 has Mercury firmware v1.25.6
  • upcoming v4.0.3 will have Mercury firmware v1.26.8

3.0 Additional Information

  1. When adding rev. 3 peripheral boards to existing revision 2 installation, new boards may come online after adding to the system but may not respond to timed unlock commands and may not send out Live events; performing memory reset and power cycle may fix the issue.

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