[sudo-access] Keycard access for new omni office?

[David Keenan]

Word. Awesome. I will try to bring some tools onsite and fein-saw the latch
into place late Tues eve. Stoked!

Best,
David

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 8:11 PM Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> 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 at 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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