Build 1076

• Archiving : Major improvements have been made to the speed of archiving. This will have most impact for sites with large numbers of events per day.
• System Reports : A new report has been added - Users On Site, Today. This is effective for sites where readers are configured as Site Entry readers, and lists users who are currently on site, and have entered since midnight.

Previous Builds

• Inputs : A new flag has been added to the input general details in the Points Centre to allow processing of unsealed events. Normally only alarms are processed. When this flag is set, unsealed events will be stored for the point, allowing the unsealed state to be seen in the graphics, and other tools which show point state.
• Genesis Communications : The routine for resynchronising the events when the communications started would occasionally fail, and re-process events already in the history. This has been fixed.
• Points Centre : The headings for Events and Actions on the Triggers tab were incorrect in the list of actions to take. This has been fixed.
• A new option has been added to Classic Genie to interface with Club Management Systems while still having all the functionality normally found in Genie. The Club Access edition of Genie is designed for sites where Genie is only used for access control, and users are most commonly added automatically from data exported from the Club Management system.
• Playtpus EZeMember club management system has been added to the list of club management systems supported and tested with Genie.
• Users Centre : The reporting of whether an users was on or off site was only showing Off site. This has been fixed. Note that if the user presents their card during the time their data is displayed, this will not automatically refresh at this stage.
• Time Groups Wizard : Fixed a bug recently introduced that prevented adding time blocks to the group.
• Door Access Groups Wizard : Fixed a bug that only occurred in very rare circumstances that prevented door access groups generating and downloading to the panel.
• Points Centre : Added 8 Input Expanders to list of devices for deleting.
• User Centre : Fixed a bug where user properties would be cleared if the users type was changed. This is a recently introduced bug which has been fixed.
• User Importing : Fixed a bug where dates did not convert correctly if the date separator in the regional settings was a '.' .

Build 1047

• Users Centre. Ensure users who do not have change permission cannot activate/void cards, and add and delete additional cards.
• Point Commands. Fixed a bug that hid the lists when lists were requested in a separate window.
• Operator Password Change. Fixed a bug that prevented changing passwords due to incorrectly checking for valid data for saving.
• User Importing. Fixed a bug that resulted in the date not being handled properly when the regional setting for the short date format was YYYY-DD-MM. Note the format in the file being imported needs to be YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD.
• Points Centre. Change of Building Region for Devices has been fixed. Previously changes were not saved.

Build 1040

• Time Attendance Reports: The start date for time periods for Summary reports was incorrectly displayed, although the time period was correctly calculated. This has been fixed.
• Action Centre: A message box is now displayed when an action is started using the Run Now button.
• Flexware Club Systems: Alarms from the panels are reported as events only for systems running the Club Access Version with Flexware integration.
• Panasonic Option : Saving images to jpeg files has been added.

Build 1027

• Output List Deleting: A bug was introduced in B1025 related to deleting output lists. The downloading has been optimised with the introduction of the new Upload/Download Wizard. This Output List bug has been fixed.

Build 1026

• Panasonic Option: The Command Centre failed to start. This has been fixed.
• Genesis panels 4.73+. A bug was introduced in B1025 that resulted in Genie being unable to connect to the panels with error : PC access timed out. This has been fixed.
• Upgrading from versions originally installed before V2R305 failed with -194 error. This has been fixed.
• User Importing: Occasionally the user import would fail as a result of contention caused by trying to open the file while it was being written to. This has been fixed.

Build 1025

• Multiple Monitors: Screens did not always properly when secondary monitors were to the left of the primary monitor. Proper support for monitors on the left has been added.
• Graphics: Extends number of points on a drawing to 512.
• Users: Card details for unknown cards can now be copied to the clipboard using the Enrol Key form on the History screen. The Users Centre can read the details from the clipboard for inserting into a selected user's details.
• Uploading and Downloading: A new wizard has been introduced with revised handling for downloading to give more feedback on progress. Optimizations have also been made in the internal processing for these procedures.
• Points Centre: Fixed error in changing the User ACL for a RAS.
• Panasonic CCTV: A new option has been added to interface with Panasonic WJ-ND400 and WJ-ND300 network disk recorders.

See Release Notes for additional information.

Service Pack 1

This service pack contains a number of changes previously supplied individually.

• Scheduled User Deletes handling when importing users
• User Wizard PIN handling
• Invalid dates in user uploading ignored
• Correct handling of change card number length for limited cases
• Command Centre Find window now shows correctly when selected

Scheduled User Deletes update for Genie Classic and Genie Club Access

This EBF corrects a rare problem with automatic importing of users. If a user is due to expire on the day after updating their record automatically, Genie would still mark the user as expired during its overnight housekeeping. This has been resolved. Changes have also been made regarding processing of the users id.

Users Wizard : Fixes bugs relating to handling PINs in the Users Wizard.

Command Centre - B1076 replacement

This new version corrects a problem with using the Find selections located at the bottom of the CommandCentre window.

This manual is an updated version of the printed manual that is distributed with CDs. As systems are now most commonly downloaded from the web site, the manual is now also available as a PDF document for downloading.

The PDF version of the Online Installer Manual. This file is zipped.

The PDF version of the Online System Administrator Manual. This file is zipped.

This setups up Genie for use with the Panasonic equipment supported. If this is used to install the option with a later version of Genie, eg B1076, then the setup for the later version, eg B1076, MUST be rerun after the Panasonic option has been installed.

Build 1074

• Genesis Communications : Fixed an error in uploading that would cause the communications to terminate if polling was also enabled.

Build 1072

• Genesis Communications : The routine for resynchronising the events when the communications started would occasionally fail, and re-process events already in the history. This has been fixed.

Build 1061

• A new option has been added to Classic Genie to interface with Club Management Systems while still having all the functionality normally found in Genie. The Club Access edition of Genie is designed for sites where Genie is only used for access control, and users are most commonly added automatically from data exported from the Club Management system.
• Playtpus EZeMember club management system has been added to the list of club management systems supported and tested with Genie.
• Users Centre : The reporting of whether an users was on or off site was only showing Off site. This has been fixed. Note that if the user presents their card during the time their data is displayed, this will not automatically refresh at this stage.

Please note : The installation for build 1053 has been updated on 24th March. The change was required for sites being updated to 1053, and has no impact on sites installed with 1053.

Build 1053

• Flexware Club Systems: Handling of events export has been modified to minimise the time taken to export card presentations to Flexware.

Build 1040

• Action Centre: A message box is now displayed when an action is started using the Run Now button.
• Flexware Club Systems: Alarms from the panels are reported as events only for systems running the Club Access Version with Flexware integration.

Build 1027

• Output List Downloading: A bug was introduced in B1025 related to deleting output lists. This has been fixed. The downloading has been optimised with the introduction of the new Upload/Download Wizard.

Build 1026

• Club Access: Occasionally the user import would fail as a result of contention caused by trying to open the file while it was being written to. This has been fixed.

Build 1025

• Flexware Integration : Enhancements to the processing of user importing from Flexware.
• Other changes : Refer to the notes for Genie Classic.

Build 991

• Events Processing : Added an option in the Club Access Configuration to allow old Events to be ignored. Note that the panel(s) MUST be off line when this is requested.

Build 989

• User Deleting : Deleting all users from the Users Centre has been optimised.
• User Importing : The importing function has been improved. The import file is now renamed immediately after it has been read and before processing the users, instead of after all processing has been completed.
• Temporary Licenses : The grace period for temporary licenses has been extended to 30 days to allow extra time for board repairs.

Build 987

• Exporting Events : Sitecode for a card is now exported in the events file for Flexware.
• Reports : A new report 'Card Access List' has been added containing the fields of interest to Flexware clients.

Build 975

• Importing Users : Added Access Type to list of fields for processing.

Build 974

• First Official Release Genie Club Access.

Note that Version 3 requires Version 3 Licenses. Contact your Dealer regarding upgrading if you do not have a V3 licence. Recently purchased V2 licences are eligible for a free upgrade.

Standard and Professional

This is primarly a maintenance release for Standard.

• Door Access Groups Wizard : Fixed a bug relating to displaying doors whose timegroup contained no timeblocks.

Professional Only

• Graphics Viewer can be configured so that the drawing for an point is automatically displayed when a new alarm occurs for that point. This is configured for an Operator Group.
• Point Control can be configured to force operators to log a comment when commanding a point. This is configured for an Operator Group.
• Access Types Wizard : Fixed a bug relating to saving the default user type for uploading and importing.

See Release Notes for additional information.

Note that Version 3 requires Version 3 Licenses. Contact your Dealer regarding upgrading if you do not have a V3 licence. Recently purchased V2 licences are eligible for a free upgrade.

Standard and Professional

• Archive Reports Two new Archive reports have been added, User Access OK, which lists access messages generating 'Card OK' event from the panel, and User Valid Access, which lists both access granted and access OK events.
• Users Wizard has been enhanced and simplified. User images can now be viewed and changed using the Wizard.
• Main Menu can be displayed as a floating window, or hidden on the Task bar.
• Reports can be exported to PDF files.
• Partitioning can be extended and simplified.
• Genie Closdown allows closing the Master workstation only in multiple workstation systems so clients restart when the Master is restarted.
• Log Card at Door has been added for panel build 4.72+.
• Reports New Panel Data reports have been added.
• Door Watcher new version included.
• About Wizard can interrogate the Torrens web site to determine if there is a new version to download.
• Point Centre includes a wizard for adding doors, inputs and outputs.
• Licence Changes have been made to make provision for new options under development.

Professional Only

• Archive Reports can be configured, and can be scheduled. Data can be export as PDF files in report format, or CSV or TXT files in column format.
• Users Importing can now be run automatically.
• Users Importing has been enhanced to add additional fields for export and import. This extends data interchage with other systems.
• Graphics can be display User Images for last user through a Door.
• Triggers can be configured for action at limited times.

See Release Notes for additional information.

Version 2 Release 3.06 Features

Standard and Professional

• Operator Logoff on Timeout Operators can be automatically logged off after a set number of minutes of inactivity at a Workstation.
• User Area Activity Report A new report has been added to display the last time a user's pins was entered to access or secure an area.
• Testing Genie programming has been simplifed by the addition of a utility to simulate events from a panel.

Professional Only

• Trigger Emails Generate emails on select Point Events. This can be used to send emails to mobile phones to alert technicians to potential hardware problems.
• Operator Comments can now be added directly from the Point Control Window.
• Customised Alarm Sounds can be set up for different operator groups. Select a different sound for different alarm priorities, or suppress the sound altogether. Set these from the Operator Groups Wizard.

Build 731 Changes (14 December 2009)

• Fixed a bug saving the default graphic in Standard Genie.
• Fixed a bug with the single left click to issue default command for a point in Professional Genie.

See Release Notes for additional information.

Standard and Professional

This Service Pack is for V2R3.6 only. Check your Version in Help -> About and upgrade before attempting to install the Service Pack.

This Service Pack combines previous bug fixes with some additional changes.

• Timegroups Handling : Fixed bug which prevented display of Door and Area ACLs when there were no timeblocks in a timegroup.
• Timeblock Generate : Fixed bug which prevented setting all times to 0.
• Archive Reports : Fixed rare bug which prevented events from being displayed in Archive Reports for a limited number of sites.
• Holiday List Downloads : Fixed rare bug relating to formatting lists for downloading.
• Area List Recalls : Fixed bug relating to uploading inputs > 256.
• Reader Programming : Changing the Area Access for a Reader was not correctly downloaded to the panel. This has been fixed.
• Reader Programming : The selection of doors controlled by a reader has been changed to all doors on the same type of device, instead of the same device.
• Areas : Bypassed inputs in areas were not properly reported. This has been fixed.
• Holiday Group Uploading : Genie did not correctly delete holidays from groups when uploading if holidays were deleted from holiday lists in the panel. This has been fixed. This bug has also been fixed for Timegroups/Clocklists.
• Graphics : Jump to graphics from Alarms has been fixed.
• Archiving : Intermittent error would cause archiving to fail. This occurs for events, generally relating to access, where the door description and the user names are very long.
• Door and Area Access Groups : If the group contained a large number of doors/areas the list of timegroups for selection for the door/area would appear below the list, sometimes too low on the screen to be seen. This has been fixed.
• User Processing : Genie was not always correctly handling PINs for users under user no 100 in the Genesis panels. This has been fixed. Some invalid data may exist in the Genie database. As records are processed, the error will be reported and can be fixed. These changes relate to both the Users Centre and the Users Wizard, although the ways in which the errors occurred were different in each application.
• Scheduler : Suspended system scheduled actions are set to pending if they have been suspended for 2 days.

Version 2 Release 3.04 Features

• Graphics resizing and scrolling has been enhanced. A bug that caused rectangles to be hidden has been fixed.
• Uploading Points such as Doors has been modified so that the Genie description is no longer overwritten with the name from the panel.

Version 2 Release 3.03 Features

• Changes to the Graphics Editor, Icon Editor (Professional) and DXF converter. New icon types have been added to the graphics editor. Professional Genie now supports DXF files as underlays for drawings.
• Genesis communications using Tibbo units. Additional error handling has been added to cater for network problems which previously caused the panels to remain disconnected.
• Data downloading to panels. Additional error handling has been added to processing of downloads when panels are offline. The routine for detecting data requiring downloading when a panel goes online has also been modified. An error message will be generated if a download fails due to the panel going offline as the download is attempted. There is a new report available from System Reports and the Points Centre which lists any panels for which there is data awaiting downloading.
• Areas deleted in the panel through Technician Software will now be deleted when areas are uploaded into Genie.

Version 2 Release 3.02 Features

• Time Attendance : Added new formats for export and report.
• Changes to handling computer names longer than that supported by NetBIOS. This caused some upgrades to result in Genie 'Waiting for Server' on restart.
• Changes to upgrading very old systems. Some components were omitted for Version 2 Release 1 upgrades.
• Changes to handling of multi-panel communications and time synchronisation.

Version 2 Release 3.01 Features

• Better handling of network timeouts for panel communications using TCP.
• Additional diagnostics for finding timegroups with conflicting time intervals.
• Better handling of network failures between workstations.
• Faster start time for a Workstation when the Server is not available.
• Fixed an intermittent bug relating to changing Door Access Groups.
• Fixed an intermittent bug relating to deleting users.

Version 2 Release 3 Features

• New Feature: Global variable support
• New Feature: Recall panel lists
• New Feature: Support for Windows® Vista
• New Option: Counter Points have been added based on Global Variables

See Release Notes for additional information.
Licence Key required for new installations.

This is a utility for viewing debug trace when required by Torrens for support.