At Workantile we built our own solution using (now obsolete) Maker boards, and our own membership software that I wrote. Since the Maker boards are no longer made, we are putting together a project to replace them with Raspberry Pi units (what's the plural of Raspberry Pi, anyway? Raspberry Pis doesn't look right).
Our solution uses rfid fobs issued to each member, with an rfid scanner connected to a Maker board at each door. The member holds up the rfid fob up to the scanner. The Maker board sends an HTTP GET request which includes the rfid serial number to the membership software, which looks up the serial number and sends an OK response if the serial number belongs to a current member, or an ERROR response if it does not. If an OK response is received, the Maker board releases the strike plate on the door so the member can open it. Once we get the Raspberry Pi solution working, we plan on open sourcing everything including the code running on the Pi and the Rails app that is our membership software. The Rails app is probably too specific to Workantile for people to use as is, but it could help someone get started if they were looking for a custom solution for their own community. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking < [email protected]> wrote: > I was talking to member about this wish list for the door and he has built > something similar for his house with a raspberry pi. He would be very > interested in developing a project and putting it out to the coworking > world based on a common set of specs. He could open-source everything in a > package or we could possibly just buy them from him. > > My requests were: > > Work as a deadbolt > Keypad access > Monitor to see if the door is locked > Have it unlock and lock up at certain times of the day > Edit codes from the web > > He is a good developer and loves these types of projects. I'm going to > have it create two for Creative Density but I would love to hear your feed > and to see if anyone else would like to be involved. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- twb member, Workantile <http://workantile.com/> @twbrandt -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
