LVL1 finalized our install of Open Access about a month and a half
ago. It's working great so far!
One of our guys did some modification of the codebase to enforce a
4-digit PIN along with the RFID. There's one slight issue with that.
No PIN numbers can start with 9... If so, it will register a prepended
FFFF for some reason. I believe this is an issue with the reader
itself, but honestly we're just kind of ignoring it for the time
being.
Overall the experience has been great. We hacked together a power
supply with battery back-up. The RFID / strike functioned flawlessly
through a 24 period of power loss, following a huge windstorm that
took out power in much of Louisville.
The relays were also wired into to our automatic garage door, so you
can open it through the RFID keypad plus a code sequence.
A more thorough write-up with documentation is pending. Next up for us
is to tie this in with some more advanced logging and management.
Thank you Open Access Control!
/Chris
Micro Colonel LVL1
As far as our poor home-made system, some day we plan to revisit it and perform an exorcism on the bugs with some advice we've received from Arclight. One of the things we added was an SD card reader for access logging and storage of RFID tag id's. I don't believe we had the SD code fully working for that though.
Thanks,
-dosman