We don’t have a visitors gate in our village. I have a cloned chip in my mirror and love it. Well worth the money when it’s poring rain or windy and cold. When/if I get another car, I’ll get one installed on that car, too.

I talked to a lady at the Villages Business office this week and she told me that after the new year, my cloned card would not work. The new, replacement cards will not be able to be cloned. Not sure if she was blowing smoke, but I wonder how they will replace EVERYONE's gate cards, if the old ones won't work next year.
I enjoy having the little cloned disk inside my outside drivers side mirror. It's much faster and I no longer drop and fumble for the card when approaching a gate. I've only had a couple gates that it didn't work because the gate sensor was too high.

They’re going to put card readers at the pools and don't want any cloning.

Currently I believe The Villages uses 125kHz RFID cards there are some limitations they may change to a dual frequency reader that may not be able to be cloned on newly issued cards or replacements time will tell.

Where did you get this information? I would like to go to the audio recording of the meeting and listen to the details.

. That particular one likely won't work as it doesn't say "HID" compatible.

. If NEW ones going forward l go that route, maybe, but then again it would seem pretty useless to have 120,000 as is current type and the next few thousand updated. It would seem to have to be "all or none" and I strongly doubt they plan on changing probably 100,000++ existing cards and every gate reader.

. Why does there need to be so much rationalization for getting one of these? Window motors? Really. It's just an easy, lazy CONVENIENCE. People pi$$ away more money on cigarettes, or booze in one day then on one of these things.

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So much BS goes on here every time a thread like this gets started (and there seems to be an advertisement for someone else every month or 2 for a new thread).

. That shows how little she knows. If your card was actually **CLONED** what she says is impossible but if the person who did your card just entered RANDOM NUMBERS on it that are not in The Villages database ONLY THEN is that possible. **IF** what she said was true they would have to replace every single existing card which is probably well over 100,000. It is POSSIBLE that NEWLY ISSUED cards may not be able to be cloned but all existing ones will be fine and could still be cloned.

& if that possibility for newly issed cards happens, it would only be until the cloning device manufacturers catch up with the new technology, then back to business as usual.

Unless you see global card replacement cost in a budget somewhere, it's not going to happen.

Hopefully, if new gate cards are issued, they will have sufficient range so that it won't be necessary to apply plastic discs inside the mirror.

Next time, I'll ask her to speak to you. You seem to assume that what they do with it might concern me....it doesn't. I like the convenience of the chip inside my mirror. It's a CONVENIENCE, not something that would make me wish to move away. I also enjoyed the built-in garage door opener button on my rear view mirror. It's a CONVENIENCE. I did not ask her for more information regarding the gate cards because I was there for an entirely different purpose. Personally, I doubt they can do anything that can't be cloned. I find it ridiculous that they are even concerned with anyone having the cards, since ANYONE can simply push the red button. After all, these are public roads and no one can be kept out. Like the lady said, "we have a community with gates, not a gated community." That's why I find it ludicrous to invest money into a nothingburger.

Alternatively, I bought a clone card maker on Amazon for less that came with 10 blanks. Works great.