Hi David,

the electric strike needs to be installed into the door you want it to control.  fortunately these things tend to work with regular doorknobs, and the doorknob still works normally, but you'll probably have to hog some wood out of the door jamb to put in the electric strike.

you can test the strike with a random 12v battery (even a drill battery) to see if you have it installed in a way that will work.  there is no worry about plus/minus polarity.

I will try to get the RFID and/or magstripe stuff working as soon as i get a chance - hopefully someone with more software skills will help once i get the hardware working.

-jake

On Sun, 27 Nov 2016, David Keenan wrote:

> Thanks for coordinating this Jake -- for this project, I can generally make
> myself available to help in a semi-unskilled manner either:
> - late evenings Tu-Th (after 9p) or
> - early mornings M-F (before 9:30a)
> My weekends are generally tied up unfo -
>
> I can do:
> - physical installs, wiring / low-voltage electrical, basic carpentry
> - software installs, basic dba & scripting, debug
> Programming node tho, I'm pretty inexperienced but avail to assist
>
> If you are there late Tuesday I can stop by. I could install one of the
> electronic throws, for example? Or anything I can do - just point me in the
> right direction.
>
> Best,
> David
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 3:00 PM Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> OK so these RFID modules (and electric door strikes) have arrived and now
>> it's time to wire them up and get them working as door access controls.
>> Ideally we will have them also do magstripe access since we're already
>> sortof doing that for a lot of people, we should probably support both
>> rather than forcing people to migrate one way or the other...
>>
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/RC522-RFID-Module-Keychain-ID-Card-Kit-RF-SPI-13-56Mhz-USA-/152070623168
>>
>> what hardware should we use as the "computer" behind each of these doors?
>> It should be able to talk to these RFID readers, as well as a magstripe
>> reader ideally.  More beaglebone blacks or something else?
>>
>> I wish we could use an openWRT router for door access computers, but there
>> is no way node is going to run on them as you can see here:
>> https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/nodejs
>>
>> maybe these doors (other than the front door) can be openWRT nodes which
>> communicate to the front door computer for authentication, and that way all
>> they need to do is host their RFID/magstripe reader?
>>
>> who realistically has time and is able to help me make this happen?
>>
>> -jake
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, Jake wrote:
>>
>>> we probably want to switch to RFID tags instead of magnetic stripe cards,
>>> in which case we need to carefully choose a good RFID reader of the right
>>> kind.
>>>
>>> fortunately this has basically already been done at Noisebridge to some
>>> extent, as seen in this repository:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/noisebridge/rfid-access-control
>>>
>>> the hardware they chose is seen here:
>>>
>>>
>> https://github.com/noisebridge/rfid-access-control/blob/master/software/firmware/README.md
>>>
>>> tragically, their high-level software is in go:
>>>
>>>
>> https://github.com/noisebridge/rfid-access-control/tree/master/software/earl
>>>
>>> so we'll probably continue using doorjam, which is in node and has been
>>> working well enough for a while now on the front door, and i'm able to
>>> maintain that.
>>>
>>> i guess the only question is, do we make the new door use RFID tags
>> only, and
>>> add an RFID reader to the front door, and then gradually phase out RFID?
>>>
>>> and that giant box of RFID watches that we have... do they work on these
>>> types of readers?  that's something we need to find out.
>>>
>>> basically, you should order a couple of these:
>>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mifare-RC522-Card-Read-Antenna-RF-Module-RFID-Reader-IC-Card-Proximity-Module-GM-/262136732813
>>>
>>> and we will start playing with it to make something work.
>>>
>>> In the meantime, we already have at least two electrically-operated door
>>> strikes, that look SORT OF like this:
>>> https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41njszNqHGL._SY355_.jpg
>>>
>>> you can install one in the door you're talking about and get it working
>>> physically, and then we'll be much closer to finishing the whole job.
>>>
>>> -jake
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, David Keenan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jake and Marc,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to spearhead keycard access for the new omni office
>>>> (ex-'treatmenent room', near TIL.) Plumbing improvements are scheduled
>> for
>>>> CCL, and Phat Beets will need to revamp to the Omni office temporarily
>>>> while concrete saws have at it in their current office, in order to
>>>> connectbup CCL's drain.
>>>>
>>>> How might we best go about adding keycard access to another room, and
>> how
>>>> can I help? I am happy to order and install as much as I can, as long
>> as I
>>>> have a shopping list.
>>>>
>>>> Dk
>>>>
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