Halo microchip scanner

[anon3825968]

Okay I might have an explanation here. This is what iD Porte (makers of the Halo scanners) replied:

@iD Porte

The functionality for reading some of the EM chips has not been dropped in later versions and is a chip we regularly check the scanner against. However there are a number of different format of EM chips and the Halo only reads one of the formats (the format commonly used in racing pigeon tags), so it may be that your colleagues have a different format of the EM chip which is why their Halo is not reading them.

My EM implant is a EM4305, and sure enough, 2 seconds of googling reveals it’s a commonly used tag for… pigeon racing rings. Maybe that explains why I like street food so much

That would be the explanation. Although it contradicts this post from Vicarious that seems to indicate he successfully read 4200’s on his Halo. Or perhaps the bug he reports occurs with 4200s precisely because the Halo is not meant to read them but somehow does it successfully anyway for certain UIDs.

Anyhow, I’ll test this by presenting genuine EM41xx and EM42xx tags to my Halo scanner tonight. I think I might have some in my box of RFID doodads.