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by Matthew Senate

Hey all, The Omni Door card-swipe system seems to be working at the moment. However, be aware there might be an issue that resurfaces. I came upon the front door system and it was not working. This was strange because Marc was granting access to a gaggle of folks maybe an hour before. The laptop was off, the switch was off, and all the cords were a tangled mess. I re-built a new little shelf for the laptop/server, power strips, switch, etc that are in the southeast corner of the front room of … [View More]

9 years, 11 months

Re: [sudo-access] [sudo-discuss] Sudo Member Space Access procedure

by Jake

Hi Niki! I meant to respond when you sent a message like this awhile ago, regarding someone who refused to properly close the door after opening it. Before I talk about the technical situation, which I believe applies to this problem, I want to try to answer your specific question. The procedure for granting door access, when I do it, is by demonstrating how the unlocking and re-locking procedure works, and making sure people understand that they must re-lock the door after opening it. … [View More]But of course sometimes people will forget, or worse, actively shirk their duty to re-lock the door. In the latter case, if a person refuses your request to re-lock the door they unlocked, I will electronically revoke their access until they explain themselves at the appropriate meeting. This would also be appropriate for people who repeatedly forget to re-lock the door after themselves. We have been working on the door technology a lot this last week, improving reliability. But we have been holding back on adding features because I understand that we are very close to replacing the front door. The new front door will not "unlock" and "re-lock" but will be the usual type of door which you "buzz" open, and when it closes it locks again. One of the features we can add in the meantime is a record of incidents when people use their card to unlock the door, and it does not get re-locked within 5 minutes. If the people are not members of La Commune, we will know to contact them for re-education. It's my understanding that we have received a permit to replace the front door, and that someone bottomlining that project has taken measurements. I do not know how long it will take or who is doing it, but this is why I have not changed the front door system to activate the doorknob instead of unlocking the pins. If it activated the doorknob instead, it would automatically lock when the door closed again. But it's a lot of work to do considering the door will be replaced very soon. Once again, if any person with electronic access is being irresponsible with unlocking the door, I am willing to de-activate their card until they come to the appropriate meeting to resolve the problem. And I will be more pro-active in reminding people to lock the door they open, and I will look into the access logging feature. thank you, -jake On Friday, Niki wrote: Hey friends, Can someone point me to where the procedure for granting new Sudo member access to the space is (if there is one?) The front door was left open by a Sudo member (no personal hard feelings!) and I just want to make sure that it's being communicated to members that the door should be closed and locked if no one is watching the front. I am working on an orientation pamphlet for folks who are new to the space (it's taking longer than anticipated!) so hopefully by the time we re-key, we'll have something more tangible to provide people. <3 N [View Less]

10 years, 1 month

Re: [sudo-access] [omni-consensus] Need list of all members who need key access to the building!

by Jake

Hi Otis and Fluor, We are always improving the door system, and adding new features. At this moment the system only works on the corner door at 48th and Shattuck, and only works with magnetic stripe cards. Any member of your group who wants a keycard can contact me or the access mailinglist to set up your card. You can use any magnetic-stripe card like a creditcard, debit card, gift card, even if it's totally expired and you found it on the sidewalk. The door system will not write to … [View More]

10 years, 1 month

trying to auto-start health.js

by Jake

on omnidoor, see /etc/init.d/doorhealth /etc/rc5.d/S18doorhealth -> ../init.d/doorhealth unfortunately, root@omnidoor:/etc/init.d# service doorhealth start Starting /root/sudobot/health.js /usr/local/bin/psy start --logfile /var/log/sudobot.log --name doorhealth -- node /root/sudobot/health.js path.js:360 throw new TypeError('Arguments to path.join must be strings'); ^ TypeError: Arguments to path.join must be strings at path.js:360:15 at Array.filter (… [View More]

10 years, 1 month

Update on omnidoor

by Marc Juul

Last night substack and myself hacked on door access. The door computer was down and it looks like some minor filesystem corruption. substack fixed the problem with help from yar. It may not have been anything serious. A breaker had tripped and maybe the filesystem was just in the middle of a write when the computer lost battery. smartctl reports no major problems with the harddrive. I worked on getting a beagle bone black set up with doorjam to replace the laptop. I had some troubles so I … [View More]

10 years, 1 month

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