[Noisebridge-discuss] Unlocking the door via SMS

[Jonathan Lassoff]

Excerpts from Micah Lee's message of Wed Mar 10 13:32:23 -0800 2010:
> I finally got around to making it so I can unlock the Noisebridge door
> from my Android phone, which isn't too hard because I have internet
> access on it. But what about people who don't have internet on their
> phones but still want to unlock the door?
> 
> I just made a Google Voice account and wrote a python daemon that
> checks text messages it receives every 5 seconds, and if it receives
> "open sesame" then it unlocks the door. I haven't actually set it up
> on pony yet or given anyone the number. Should I?

I think SMS unlocking would be awesome! Many older GSM handsets that
can't run a mobile web browser to unlock using the current page would
now have access.

Along the same vein of thinking, what about having an asterisk extention
on pony that unlocks the gate?

--j