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Author Topic: BARCO DALLAS KEY Allan Barnes Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: GRAND BEND, ONTARIO, CANADA Registered: Mar 2009 posted 04-20-2015 10:00 PM                        My "new" Barco 1500 didn't come with a Dallas Key. Is each KEY good only for one specific projector? I can buy a new key for only $25 but how to program it? Do I need to call Barco? And what information do I need for them? Help please!  |  IP: Logged Marin Zorica Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 671 From: Biograd na Moru, Croatia Registered: May 2003 posted 04-21-2015 05:27 AM                     You can, just loggin to projector via communicator and go to key menagement somewhere and add new key, as well confirmation password.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-21-2015 08:46 AM                     If it was a new projector...the key was in the "Lid" of the shipping box in a ziplock bag with the "manual." The key is available as a separate part from Barco and is part of the ibutton series (google it) from other suppliers. Yes, you can add different keys to the approved list (something like 4 or 5). If you have others in the complex you can use them on the new projector. If you don't want to try to read the key's number off of the key...you can use the key, let it fail and then look at the logs for what key just tried to be used...the full number will be there.  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-22-2015 01:47 AM                     Yeah, you need good light to read those tiny numbers! I can manage it unaided if the light is decent.Sometimes I have to resort to a lens. I wonder if one could photograph it with a mobile phone?  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 04-22-2015 03:51 AM                        quote: Pete Naples I wonder if one could photograph it with a mobile phone? As I get older, I find that reading fine text in anything but the most idea light is becoming increasingly difficult - especially when I have my contacts in. Taking a picture with my phone and then zooming is the way I frequently get around this, including how I read the number on the Dallas key to my projector.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 04-22-2015 04:00 AM                     Steve's way isn't all that stupid. Maybe Barco could come up with some interface improvements. Create a list of "failed keys" including a timestamp when it was last tried to use them and authorize them via a simple push on the button.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-22-2015 08:22 AM                     quote: Justin Hamaker As I get older, I find that reading fine text in anything but the most idea light is becoming increasingly difficult... No, my arms are just getting shorter.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 04-22-2015 12:31 PM                        This is very handy: Magnifying Glass (android)  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-22-2015 05:48 PM                     Allan: You can use the key from one of your other projectors for it, one key will work on any number of projectors. I think any iButton key will work, but I haven't tried any that didn't come with a projector. You need to read the 3 number fields on the iButton back: 2 characters, a bunch, and 2 more. They are hexadecimal numbers, from 0-9 plus A,B,C,D. Frigging small numbers but readable in the right light depending on your eyes, a magnifier is good or use a digital camera or phone camera that focuses close. You need a PC with Communicator - you have that - or a touchpanel, I think you have one somewhere? Connect to the projector, log in as st, go to installation/advanced/"manage security keys", click the "read" icon at top left and the active keys will show up. You can click the "used" one or a blank one (since you don't have the key for the "used" one)... then click the "write" icon at lower left. Enter the numbers off the key, they give you a little picture of the key to fill in. Enter a password, for S1 the normal password is ; for S2 it's . Click the save icon at top right. Done. [ 04-23-2015, 01:58 AM: Message edited by: Brad Miller ]  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-22-2015 06:04 PM                     Passwords are not supposed to be posted I believe  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-22-2015 07:24 PM                     Well true, but if someone has the st password they can both see the original one and change it to whatever they want.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-23-2015 01:58 AM                     Doesn't matter, that's the default password and it wouldn't exist if it was intended to have been posted publicly.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-23-2015 08:38 AM                     You also have no idea if any person on this forum has the authority to make changes to a projector. As such, it is never a good idea to publicly post ANY passwords. Even minor ones. I guarantee that there is a legitimate way for an authorized person to obtain what they need.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 04-23-2015 01:41 PM                     Well, to be fair... default passwords aren't there for protection, they are there, because the system enforces a password to be present and the owner of the equipment is supposed to change it to something else. If it was me, every system would be programmed with a unique password before it's shipped to the customer, but since that costs a few bucks extra, vendors usually don't go that route. I know it's the policy of this site. But default passwords are more like part of the documentation, than really there to protect anything.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-23-2015 07:06 PM                     The password doesn't show in the documentation. Furthermore, the password you were ready to show is the high-level password too. You can fault Barco for making a high-level password the one that is there at the ready. Regardless, it is NEVER a good idea to post ANY password in a public forum  |  IP: Logged

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