Magic Bands working on comfort stations?

[Littleolwoman.aka.Kristie 119]

Darth Vader and the cell phone toilet talking lady...  :rofl:

[Cyclonic 55]

I wonder if Darth Vader will talk to me if I had a Star Wars Magic Band?

 

Might be kind of creepy at the restroom door.

 

TCD

 

We tried Becky's Olaf band at the gate and it did not say "My own personal flurry," like it does at the FP in the parks.  A little disappointing, was hoping it would.  Maybe once everything is set up they will.

[fladogfan aka Gretchen 259]

Darth Vader and the cell phone toilet talking lady...  :rofl:

 

Made me laugh too.

[Grumpy and Grandma 739]

They must have adjusted the gate, we had to actually touch the pad last night when we came in, but it didn't have to be perfectly lined up for the gate to open.

[Jbolen2 3]

Glad to see its finally going to all work with bands, seemed like someone in the group always ended up with all the kttw cards.

[Grumpy and Grandma 739]

There is also now a high and low reader on the front gate.

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

Interesting!  Thanks for the update, Dave.

[Tri-Circle-D 2,059]

I am still mystified as to why they are installing the fancy light-up Mickey head scanners on the Fort Comfort Stations.

 

I did a little research this past weekend.

 

The Contemporary uses the simple rectangular scanners that the other resorts use. The Mickey head on the MB has to be held against the Mickey head on the scanner. There's a small light that will light green or red to indicate whether or not the door unlocked:

 

 

Guest room doors at All Star Movies operate the same way:

 

 

The All Star Movies laundry room door scanner looks like what they used to use at the Fort- this works with Magic Bands. You just need to touch the scanner with the Magic Band, and the door opens:

 

 

Why aren't they using these same scanners at the Fort?

 

TCD

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

Darned good question!  Presumably they were working find at the other resorts (?) so... why not leave well enough alone?

[mouseketab.....Carol 1,261]

I heard it has something to do with the fact that you don't have a "room" at the Fort.

 

When guests check into resorts, they are told to use ALL of their MBs on the room door to "register" them. Then that confirms the MB to the room, and then triggers all of the ancillary scanners to recognize the MB during their stay.

 

Well, at the campsite we of course skip scanning the MB to a room door, so therefore they were finding it difficult to assign the MBs to the ancillary scanners such as comfort stations or the gates.

 

Any smart programmer, could probably work around that, and make it a command in the check-in hosts screen, but instead they are doing something else.

 

Not sure why there was a difference with the blank cards they were giving us........

[dblr....Rennie 224]

Ok so then put Magic Band scanners at every site like at the rooms at the resorts, I mean come on Disney it's only money and look how much has been wasted I mean spent so far :rofl2:

[djsamuel 322]

 

 

Not sure why there was a difference with the blank cards they were giving us........

 

The blank cards probably were all pretty much the same with the exception of the effective dates.  It could be the data format already on the Magic Bands, and used everywhere else, made it very difficult to read into a more "generic" system.