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julian 355026dcf7 Remove UHPPOTE/ZKTeco; Dingtian is the only access driver
Neither UHPPOTE nor ZKTeco is used — the Dingtian relay controller was chosen
and verified. Remove their code and re-scope the wiki.

Code:
- delete access-uhppote.ts, uhppoted.d.ts, access.ts (zkteco/esp32-relay stubs),
  and the three uhppote-*.mjs hardware test scripts.
- remove the `uhppoted` npm dependency from @parking/devices and @parking/server.
- unregister uhppote/zkteco/esp32-relay from the driver registry; drop their
  exports. Catalog access drivers = dingtian only. Build green (5/5).
- refresh now-stale example comments (registry/interfaces/setup/api) to use
  current examples; keep the two "UHPPOTE blocker" references that explain why
  the precondition capability exists.

Wiki (kept pages, re-scoped):
- uhppote-controller, zkteco-controller -> rejected/historical with callouts;
  uhppote-vs-esp32 -> historical (detection-vs-prevention lens still useful).
- re-point all "current device" framing (standing-decisions, bom, overview,
  open-questions, device-registry, device-discovery, index) to dingtian-relay.
- transferable concepts (network-isolation, event-log-ingestion, barrier-not-a-
  door, threat-model) untouched. Raw source immutable. Links lint clean.
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ZKTeco Controller (rejected — historical)

❌ NOT USED. Was considered as the access controller; the dingtian-relay board was chosen instead (decoupled inputs, already verified). The zkteco driver stub has been removed from the codebase. Kept for the record of the comparison below.

A network access controller (C3 / inBio families), originally the documented "UHPPOTE now → ZKTeco later" upgrade in the bom.

Why it was a contender (vs. UHPPOTE)

ZKTeco is better positioned than the uhppote-controller for host-in-the-loop entry (the access-controller-button-flow blocker) — but it was never verified on our hardware, and the Dingtian solved the problem first with less effort:

  • Its auxiliary inputs have programmable linkage (ZKBioSecurity software / PULL SDK) and are not hardwired to "open door" — so a button on an aux input can raise a host event without auto-opening, enabling button → host → print ticket → host opens.
  • The PULL SDK streams real-time events (GetRTLog) and has an explicit open command (ControlDeviceOutput).
  • Caveat: a button on the door's exit-switch input still auto-opens (same as UHPPOTE) — only the aux-input path avoids it.

Driver status

  • ZKTeco speaks its own PULL SDK / TCP protocol — not the UHPPOTE UDP protocol, so the uhppoted lib does not work with it.
  • No verified MIT/Apache/BSD Node library found. Mature open implementations are Python (zkaccess-c3-py, pyzkaccess). Adopting ZKTeco means writing a new driver for the registry (device-adapter-pattern) — real protocol work.

Reference

See access-controller-button-flow for the full blocker context.