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title: "Automatically Configure RFIdeas Badge Readers Using HWG+ Files"
slug: "how-to-automatically-configure-rfideas-badge-readers-using-hwg-files"
updated: 2024-11-19T16:22:26Z
published: 2024-11-19T16:22:26Z
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# Automatically Configure RFIdeas Badge Readers Using HWG+ Files

This article describes how to automatically configure RFIdeas badge readers using HWG+ files. The process consists of two steps:

1. [Generate an HWG+ (hardware configuration) file](/v1/docs/how-to-automatically-configure-rfideas-badge-readers-using-hwg-files#generate-an-hwg-file) with the desired configuration
2. [Deploy the HWG+ file](/v1/docs/how-to-automatically-configure-rfideas-badge-readers-using-hwg-files#deploy-the-hwg-file)
3. [Update the XA Client registry settings](/v1/docs/how-to-automatically-configure-rfideas-badge-readers-using-hwg-files#update-the-xa-registry-with-the-location-of-the-hwg-file)

## Generate an HWG+ file

1. Download and install the [RFIdeas pcProxConfig utility](https://www.rfideas.com/page/rf-ideasr-configuration-utility) from the RFIdeas web site.
2. Run the pcProxConfig utility
  1. IMPORTANT: Ensure that you have a compatible badge reader attached to your system!
3. Make any desired changes to the badge reader configuration
4. Save the configuration ("**Write Settings**") to the badge reader
  1. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/f2567005-8048-43b2-8bfc-3abc2da42bca/Images/Documentation/image-1717513711995.png)
5. Save the configuration to an HWG+ file
  1. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/f2567005-8048-43b2-8bfc-3abc2da42bca/Images/Documentation/image-1717513780016.png)

## Deploy the HWG+ file

1. Copy the new HWG+ file to the location you want to have it stored (e.g. network file share, or local drive and folder).

## Update the XA Registry with the location of the HWG+ file

On a system with XA Client installed:

1. Open **regedit**
2. Go to the **HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HealthCast\ProxCardClient** registry key
3. Verify whether the **HWGConfig** setting exists or not. If it does not, create a new **reg_sz** setting and name it **HWGConfig**.
4. Enter the full path and name of the HWG+ file you wish to have applied to the badge reader (see example below).
  1. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/f2567005-8048-43b2-8bfc-3abc2da42bca/Images/Documentation/image-1717514092399.png)
5. XA will apply the new hwg+ configuration the next time the HCI ProxCard Client Service restarts (e.g. after a system reboot). You may also restart the service manually to apply the HWG+ file.
  1. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/f2567005-8048-43b2-8bfc-3abc2da42bca/Images/Documentation/image-1717514257500.png)