diff --git a/src/paravisionx.py b/src/paravisionx.py
index dcb8a4bbd..316dee846 100644
--- a/src/paravisionx.py
+++ b/src/paravisionx.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ class Paravision(FaceClass):
             print("** paravision::compare exception ... " + str(ex) )
             self.errstr =  "image comparison exception at compute_scores: "+str(ex)
             return '{ "status":332410, "remark":"%s" }' % self.errstr
-        return '{ "status":0, "threshold": 380, "device1_qual": 0.5, "device2_qual": 0.5, "remark":"OK", "score":%d }' % self.match_score
+        return '{ "status":0, "threshold": 500, "device1_qual": 0.5, "device2_qual": 0.5, "remark":"OK", "score":%d }' % self.match_score
 
 
     def scores(self):