I'm down here in San Francisco now, knee deep in renovations for The Red Victorian <http://www.redvic.com> and working on their door lock solution. We don't want to use any smart phone systems (Kevo, Lockitron, August, etc) because we can't know for sure what kind of phone our guests will have, if they will even have phones, or if they are charged when they arrive. We want to go with a personalized key code that can be generated and emailed to them using the reservation system we built. For that we are hooking up the existing electric strike on the front gate to a raspberry pi and a wiegand keypad. The next bit of magic will be to hook up each room with a Kwikset SmartCode lock and push the generated code to the given room, and turn off the previous occupants code.
The advantages of going with the Kwikset are that it can use the existing lock tumblers so we can keep the large amount of room keys we already have. Also at around $120-$150 the price is right for outfitting 20+ doors. People have been getting really excited about the idea of outfitting each door with a raspberry pi but by the time we get power, servos, and a durable enclosure hooked up it's going to be a lot more expensive. One pi at the front door calling all the shots is all we need. Of course I have to figure out how to send the key codes to each door so there is more R&D needed. I'm also working to figure out the Wiegand protocol to hook up the keypad. If anyone has played with this, please reach out. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:34 AM, rachel cline <rclineconsult...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good info, I saw the fobs cost about $25, I didn't notice you had to pay > for each virtual key also. > > Rachel Cline > 702-577-8627 > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 14, 2014, at 6:30 AM, Andy Soell <aso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The one thing I would recommend, if you’re looking at Kevo, is to make > sure you understand how their “ekey” pricing model works. Unless I’m > grossly misunderstanding, it looks like the way it works is that you have > to pay for packs of virtual “keys” to give to people before they can unlock > it with their phone. It seems a bit ridiculous to me that you have to pay > for the hardware and *then* pay again for each user you want to be able > to unlock the hardware. If you have a lot of members, the cost for the Kevo > system could end up being quite a bit higher than expected if you were only > looking at the cost of the hardware. > > > On Jul 12, 2014, at 11:43 PM, Rachel Cline <rclineconsult...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Kevo looks great! thanks for sharing. Have you found any additional > information or reviews? > > On Friday, June 6, 2014 2:49:10 PM UTC-7, Andy Soell wrote: >> >> Love all these reviews, thanks for all the guidance everyone! Does anyone >> have any experience with a newer Bluetooth-enabled locked called Kevo? >> Works with iOS devices, and also supports key fobs for users with other >> mobile phone platforms. >> >> http://www.kwikset.com/Kevo/ >> >> Looks promising, but I'm always a little wary of newer, untested >> products. >> >> > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/LhlCVViGlfY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/LhlCVViGlfY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
