What Offision drives on each panel
The light bar, the card reader and the remote reboot, panel by panel — what Offision itself does with the hardware, which is not the same list as what the hardware has.
Which booking panel hardware Offision supports is the hardware. This is the software: what the panel has, and what Offision actually does with it. The two are not the same question — a Crestron panel has no light bar in the box, and a Qbic panel’s built-in card reader only reads a card when the panel is running the Offision Android app rather than showing the panel in a browser.
What each panel can do
| Panel | Light bar | Card reader | Reboot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crestron TSS / TSW | Accessory | USB reader | — |
| Qbic, Offision app | Seven colours | Built-in NFC | Yes |
| Qbic, browser | Seven colours | USB reader | Yes |
| IAdea, Offision app | Seven colours | Built-in NFC, HID Global | Yes |
| IAdea, browser | Seven colours | USB reader | Yes |
| Neat Pad | Green, red, one custom | USB reader | — |
| Cisco Room Navigator | Five of seven | USB reader | — |
| Android tablet, Offision app | — | Built-in NFC, if the tablet has it | — |
| iPad, Windows, browser | — | USB reader | — |
A Neat Pad is the only panel that opens its own device settings from the Offision console. Everywhere else, brightness and the network are the vendor’s own settings screen.
The two rows Qbic and IAdea each get above are one panel set up two ways, and the card reader is not the only thing that changes between them — uploaded video and the label printer go the same way. What that choice costs, per brand, is in Qbic: app or browser and IAdea: app or browser.
A paired panel's record: the room it shows, the configuration it follows, and the actions Reboot and Reset passcode.
What the columns mean
HID Global cards carry a facility code as well as a serial, and the two vendors differ on what comes back. An IAdea panel decodes the facility code and card number. Every other panel — a Qbic H model included — reads the card’s serial number instead, which is not the number printed on it. Enrol one card and tap it before you import the rest.
Light bar is what Offision drives, not merely what the hardware has. Seven colours means the panel reproduces the whole palette. Accessory means the panel has no bar of its own and takes a Crestron light bar or hallway sign over USB. A Cisco Room Navigator shows yellow where the palette says orange and blue where it says cyan; a Neat Pad has one custom colour for everything that is neither green nor red. See What the panel colours mean for the colours themselves.