Thanks for the post and link to other resources, I will read through those shortly.
To be honest with you, I really don’t care at this point if my chip will work with my alarm system at work. I have kind of come to terms with the fact it probably wont in the past and my daily use with the chip has just been at home using cheap black readers which regurgitates the UID to a Pi Zero as if it were a USB keyboard. I’ve built a few different electronics projects around that concept and login to some systems, so I’m just stoked to have all those things back in action, that is the main thing for me.