the door computer is working in the sense that people are using their cards to get into the building and it's functioning properly. there's apparently no ethernet path to it right now and we don't know why. Marc just went to check on the ethernet cable to it. apparently it was plugged in and working and the link lights were on on the beaglebone black, but when he unplugged the ethernet and plugged it back in, the lights went out and didn't come back on. So he power-cycled it and now it works. the beaglebone black has entered some other unpleasant states in the past, for example i've found it several times simply powered off, even though it had 5V supply to it. why did it turn itself off? who knows. at some point we should add a function to the arduino (which is already there to control the door latch and beeper) to power-cycle the beaglebone (or whatever we replace it with) if it isn't doing what it should for whatever reason. -jake On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Yardena Cohen wrote:

That door cable situation should be run through conduit (and 'should' because we shouldn't have an extension cord running to anything always-on, esp in the main entrance hall, because fire code). Lotsa folks been using that outlet area recently to charge their phones during the day, which I suspect may be behind the door system downtimes. But I'm not volunteering to bottomline that right now, cuz medialab and kitchen need facilitator momentum. :/ Tempted to just call Mike (electrician we've contracted in the past), but I just remembered I ran into Whitney the other week and he mentioned he may have some availability. Perhaps we can tack it onto the electrical permits we'll need to pull to fix the circuit running to the cafe... Jenny Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland! https://omnicommons.org/kitchen `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon." --Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark" ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 2:44 AM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: