[Rack] doorport - do you know how the door opener works?

[Danny O'Brien]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> Jake, what is the difference between https://www.noisebridge.net/**
>> wiki/User:Jake <https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/User:Jake> and
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/**wiki/User:Jerkey<https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/User:Jerkey>
>>
>
> i don't know, i guess they are both me.  I made the jerkey one to edit
> wiki pages, and i made the jake one so that i could be given ssh access to
> pony.
>
>
>  Do you want your SSH key for "jake" pushed to minotaur?
>>
>
> yes, that would be great.  so, what's that machine "for" and what is
> running on it?
>
>
>  I'm happy to help facilitate making anything related work with the
>> hardware/software, since I feel like I know it well. However, from my
>> perspective, it was already working. Coming onto the list and saying "Help!
>> Make the door work!" doesn't make it clear what you're looking for, or how
>> anyone can help you out.
>>
>
> I did the hardware, since there was nothing to plug the door wiring into
> anymore (the Wise box was gone and i heard they are bunk anyway) but I had
> nowhere to begin to try to get it to work with the new setup.
>
> It turns out that the hardware was working when i sent that message,
> except that a wire had come loose on the dooropener circuitboard, which I
> fixed with Danny.  But hardware is nothing without software, and there was
> no software on the Minotaur to activate it.  It's fixed now, says Danny.
>

I just tried out the software jof put on it, but it seems to work (the
daemon is running now too, but I didn't put in an init script to restart it
on boot). The webscript is also not fixed to work with it yet.


> rock on!
> -jake
>
>
>  I put the two most-helpful tools for dealing with the hardware on
>> minotaur:
>>  - /usr/local/sbin/open-door (a setuid root binary that "buzzes" open the
>> door with the parallel port hardware)
>>  - /usr/local/sbin/parport_daemon (a setuid binary that takes control of
>> the parallel port, starts listening on UDP
>> 0.0.0.0:30012, and talks a simple protocol to query the state of the
>> ringer and open the gate)
>>
>> Personally, I'd like to use the parport_daemon program going forward,
>> though most of the scripts others use are not setup
>> to use it just yet. The protocol is dead simple. Ask it "Sup?" and it
>> will respond with "Nothing." (nobody's ringing) or
>> "RING!" (someone is or just rang the gate buzzer). If you send it "OPEN!"
>> it will respond "Acknowledged. Buzzing it
>> open." (buzzes open the door) or "Already opened recently." (if someone
>> beat you to it -- there's a timeout to avoid
>> wailing on the solenoid).
>>
>> So, to open the gate from pony, one could do something like: echo -n
>> 'OPEN!' | socat stdio udp4:minotaur.noise:30012
>> I should probably make a wrapper script or controller around that next.
>>
>> I'm also thinking it would be cute to have the computer hosting the
>> daemon to also announce a Zeroconf/Avahi service
>> records for the door. Maybe _door._udp?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> jof
>>
>>
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