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Read your fingerprint and face clocks with SISC Time Clock

SISC Time Clock is a Windows app for a PC on the same network as your attendance clocks. In "Office clock" mode it reads each clock by its IP address, keeps every punch on the PC until SISC Suite has it, and sends the punches into HR, where they become attendance like any other punch. It works with ZKTeco and the many clocks built on ZKTeco boards, with Hikvision, and with any other brand that can export a file.

You need

• hr.time-clocks.create

Steps

1. Download SISC Time Clock from the Downloads page of sisc-suite.com and install it on a PC that stays on during working hours. Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" the first time, because the installer is not yet signed: press More info, then Run anyway. The Downloads page shows the file's SHA-256 checksum if you want to check it first.
2. If you may make pairing codes yourself, you need no code: go to the next step. Anybody else gets one from HR: In HR, open Attendance and its "Time Clock app" tab, and press "Pair an office PC". Give the PC a name and press "Make a code". The code is shown once and works once, for one hour.
3. On the PC, open SISC Time Clock, choose how it will be used, and sign in with the email (or user name) and password you use for SISC Suite — then the two-step code if your account has one, and the company if you belong to several. If you may make pairing codes, the PC is connected straight away; otherwise it asks for the code from HR. Either way you are signed out at once: the PC keeps only its own connection, never your sign-in, and says "Paired by …, you are signed out". (A user name without an email, or when SISC’s sign-in cannot be reached: open "Use a company address instead", type the company address, and sign in or type the code there.)
4. The first time it opens, SISC Time Clock asks once how this PC will be used: choose "Connected clock (fingerprint / face device)". The answer is locked to this installation, and the code must be one made for an office PC. To change it later, remove the PC in HR, then install and pair the app again.
5. ZKTeco and compatible clocks: press "Add a clock", choose "ZKTeco or compatible", and type the clock's IP address (on the clock: Menu › Comm › Ethernet), port 4370 (TCP, or UDP for older models), and its Comm key if one is set (Menu › Comm › PC connection). Choose the clock's time zone, and whether it has in and out keys.
6. Hikvision clocks: choose "Hikvision (ISAPI)", type the IP address, port 80 (or 443 with "Use HTTPS"), and a user name and password that may read events on the clock. For HTTPS with the clock's own certificate, also paste its SHA-256 fingerprint, so the app accepts that certificate and no other.
7. Any other brand: choose "File export (CSV or Excel)". Export the attendance log from the clock or its software as CSV or Excel, then press "Import a file". The app finds the employee number, date and time columns itself; if the dates could be day-first or month-first, choose which in the clock's settings and import again. Rows it cannot read are counted, never guessed.
8. Clocks that send by themselves (ADMS / iclock push) need no PC: on Attendance, the Terminals tab gives the server address to type into the clock under Comm › Cloud Server Setting.
9. Press "Test connection": the app shows the clock's serial number and how many people are enrolled. Then press "Sync now". After that the app syncs every five minutes (you can choose) and starts with Windows, and "Set the clock to this PC's time" corrects a clock that has drifted.
10. Back in HR, each clock appears under its PC with its last upload and its health. A punch whose employee number nobody has been given is kept in the queue on the Terminals tab: give that person the number, and apply it.

Passwords and comm keys are typed into the app and kept only on that PC, encrypted for that Windows user; SISC Suite never receives them. Each punch is read in the time zone you chose for its clock and stored once, however many times it is sent. Offline, punches wait on the PC and go when the connection returns. Honestly: no ZKTeco or Hikvision device was available while this was built, so both are proven against the published protocol descriptions and simulators only. If a clock does not answer, tell support its make, model and firmware version and the message the app shows.

Related

• Record attendance from your own computer