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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
Thats down to a problem with the turnstile
If the smartcard reader is bust it will read mag stripe and so on
We have raised the issue of the readability of the screen with IE
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I've noticed in the last week or two quite a few turnstiles in Heuston - and one or two in Connolly - are silently broken for smartcards. Displaying 'READY' but not reading my card. I've seen the machines automatically flip over to 'SMARTCARD ONLY' if a paper ticket jams in the mechanism, or I guess if it feeds through X number of tickets and can't read the magstripe on any, but I can't imagine how the RFID reader with no moving parts could break, or how that could be automatically detected. Dodgy firmware update maybe?