[Sgt Ed]

Originally Posted by Gabi12

Yep, holding your card up to your window works.

I do not know about that. I've had my card inches from the sensor and it still stumbles. Have to wave the card around. BTW the whole system is a joke. I think some one in the window motor business or leather upholstery business convinced TV to install this system. Golf cart😒s are a weak excuse.

[Danube]

Originally Posted by jarodrig

There should be no concern whatsoever because you don’t need a gate pass to enter through any gate . The gates are not “secure”.

All anyone has to do to get through is press the red button. The gate opens up , no questions asked ….

A few gates do not have a red button.

[HORNET]

What’s your hurry? Maybe just go thru the Visitor Gate

[twoplanekid]

I now use the larger card not the round 3M one as it gives me much better range to not need to be close and works well on both the Tesla model 3 which is low and the Honda CRV which has a higher mirror. So nice to not be distracted looking for the gate card and allows me to have both hand on the wheel at all times. Then, it's like using the exit gate.

Video of me using the older card when I needed to be closer to the reader.

The easy way to open a gate in The Villages - YouTube

[jarodrig]

Originally Posted by Danube

A few gates do not have a red button.

A few ? I only know of one that doesn’t up in the historic section…..

Where are the others ?

[jarodrig]

Originally Posted by HORNET

What’s your hurry? Maybe just go thru the Visitor Gate

It does not matter which gate you go through . They both work exactly the same way….

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by Akadan

Would you be interested in taking parts in a survey concerning car key gated Entry in the Villages? One of the suggestions being put forward is the idea to have the entry gates work just as the exit gates do where the gate is lifted based on the presence of the vehicle and does not require the use of a card key. This is based on the premise that the gated entries there are for the protection and safety of those people using the multi Multi modal path so the vehicles do not speed through the entry, but rather are forced to stop and look both ways before crossing the multi Multimodal.

Other perceptions are that the card key provides some additional level of security for the community, but this seems somewhat counter to the observations that anyone pressing the red button at the entry gate gets access.

The gates and guards are part of the Developer's overall marketing strategy and is unlikely to change, unless and until their marketing folks decide it's advantageous to remove them or revise the process ... as they've done through the years.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by HORNET

What’s your hurry? Maybe just go thru the Visitor Gate

That only helps if there is a gate attendant...

[twoplanekid]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

The gates and guards are part of the Developer's overall marketing strategy and is unlikely to change, unless and until their marketing folks decide it's advantageous to remove them or revise the process ... as they've done through the years.

And, I understand that reasoning. Yet, who owns the gates to then control that process?? Who does the Village staff that recommends changes report to? What is public and what is under private control. I sometimes wonder.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by twoplanekid

And, I understand that reasoning. Yet, who owns the gates to then control that process?? Who does the Village staff that recommends changes report to? What is public and what is under private control. I sometimes wonder.

I always wonder.

This is what I think, but I'm surely willing to be proved wrong.

The various Districts own and control the gate houses/gates. Per the permits issued by the county for the specific neighborhoods, the Developer (subsequently the Districts) were able to maintain ownership of these appurtenances, even though they're located on public ways (they either maintained ownership or maintain control, via some sort of perpetual lease-back or agreement with the county).

I believe the gate process can be amended, changed, removed, altered, at the discretion of the Districts. That would likely take agreement by the County. As a legal matter, I don't know if the Developer still has a say in what happens, but from a practical perspective, the District seldom does anything the Developer doesn't agree with.

Again, I don't know if any of the above are "facts", but based on my experience, this is the likely way it works IMO.

[WiscoDogsDad]

JUST had this done, today. Call Doug, at 352-391-9494. He does this. He'll answer your questions.

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by GpaVader

Our district rep was showing us a new strip that is applied to your headlight...

Applied to your HEADLIGHT? Maybe a typo? That would be a pretty strange place (and probably illegal place) to put it. With all the other more logical places (windshield bottom left corner being common in many places) the headlight would be the last place I'd think of.

Originally Posted by GpaVader

h but hold off because they are looking at changing the system and it could render these in effective.

Unless they plan on changing EVERY LAST CARD in T.V. (maybe 78-80,000?) that will never happen. As long as the cards are cloned properly, they will continue to work probably way after we are all pushing up daisies.. Some sellers just use random numbers or all zeroes and THAT could be an problem if that card number isn't in the database. But if they use your own registered number you'll be safe for a very long while.

[AMB444]

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[Altavia]

Originally Posted by EdFNJ

Applied to your HEADLIGHT? Maybe a typo? That would be a pretty strange place (and probably illegal place) to put it.

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Long Range Gate Functionality

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by Altavia

Long Range Gate Functionality

That's because they are trying to sell them. Still wonder if that placement would even be legal. The one in our side mirror works 100% flawlessly. Haven't missed a gate in years. "Long Range" isn't the issue anyway as gate readers are always close. .