[Noisebridge-discuss] Unable to get in recently

[Danny O'Brien]

What's the current status? It sounds like we should talk with our landlord
contact to get this fixed?

d.


On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com> wrote:

> Just to make it very explicit, the front door lock suffered a tripple
> failure over the 4th of July:
>
> 1.  The physical key mechanism failed and is seemingly broken; a physical
> key will go in but just spin without engaging any mechanism.
> 2.  The server which handles internal DNS as well as the door-code system,
> minotaur, died a fiery death.  On Friday night, Ben was in all evening
> working on replacing it; I believe he was successful (see the "minotaur
> dead" thread), but it's not clear that the baron.py is back in action (this
> is the gate-code daemon).
> 3.  The strike-plate mechanism on the front door seems to be broken, so
> that simply pushing on the door opens it.
>
> As far as I know, these are three independent failure modes, one is not
> causing either of the other two.
>
> You seem to have run into a weird edge case where #3 was not true but #1
> and #2 were.  Weird.
>
> If you have a line on door locks that will never, under any circumstances,
> fail, please let me know.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Sai <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Henner Zeller <h.zeller at acm.org> wrote:
>> > As long as it is possible to open the gate in emergency situations
>> easily
>> > from inside, this sounds like one solution.
>>
>> I'd also add that a pretty basic requirement of a front door lock is
>> that if you have a key (physical or code), you should always be able
>> to open the door from the outside.
>>
>> It seems that currently, the door has a failure mode which can make it
>> impossible to open (without being forced) from the outside. That seems
>> pretty bad to me; we shouldn't have to rely on there *always* being
>> someone at NB to let people in.
>>
>> Plus, what do the 2nd floor tenants do? They have to get in too; the
>> front gate isn't just ours, and if we make modifications to it, we
>> have a responsibility to other tenants in the building to ensure that
>> they are able to get in and out easily as well.
>>
>> - Sai
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