My recommendation: Chui <https://preorder.getchui.com/the-world-s-most-intelligent-doorbell>
Facial recognition door access, for $199. Works with Lockitron. -Toby Full disclosure: investor (+ co-working space owner) On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Citizen Space- Member Services Desk < citizensp...@gmail.com> wrote: > For the Connections SF Space I did implement Lockitron using a strike > plate, also tied FOB’s to the system which could also be used for your > hotel room door, and to access the workspace doors. For members of the > workspace only, they use mobile devices to access the building of the > hotel, and the door into the workspace. They also have an API, so you can > integrate into any existing reservations systems, etc. > > Jacob, > > What are doing in SF? Make sure you come by to catch up, and please plan > on having lunch one day in our Food Truck park directly next door to > Citizen Space on 2nd. > > > Toby > > > > > On 7/14/14, 10:56 AM, "Jacob Sayles" <ja...@officenomads.com> wrote: > > For something like that Andy you probably want to focus on if the door jam > can hold and electric strike. They are easier to deal with actually but > residential products focus on the deadbolt because that is a standard > residential doors. We have a lot more to work with in commercial spaces. > > As for codes vs RFID vs physical keys vs phones: It's important to > understand the advantages and disadvantages each brings to the situation. > The RedVic need codes we can email people like I described, but I'm > generally against codes as they are too easy to copy, pass on, overhear, > etc. Keys are too hard to revoke and change so at Office Nomads we go with > RFID. Phone solutions I'm sure work great here in tech savvy San Francisco > so I'm not surprised at all they work great for you Toby. I wonder how > that would work even in Seattle and it makes me wonder what I would come up > with if I looked at the phones of every member that had a key. We already > have an RFID solution so that would mostly be academic. > > Jacob > > --- > Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation > http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Andy Soell <aso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As long as we're back on electronic locks, we're looking for a good > solution for our new location. The existing door is glass with a narrow > stile > <http://www.customstorefronts.com/products/doors/aluminum/aluminum.htm> > <http://www.customstorefronts.com/products/doors/aluminum/aluminum.htm> > frame that won't accommodate a standard deadbolt sized solution. If you > search for door-code style locks for door like this on Amazon, you get a > lot of results but none of them with enough purchases to figure out if > they're good or not. Angel mentioned one earlier in this thread that would > work, but it wasn't very favorably reviewed by her. Does anyone have any > tips on a door code lock like this that they would recommend? I definitely > want something with easily programmable codes we can give our members and > not fobs or smartphone integration. > > > andy > > > On Monday, July 14, 2014 1:17:49 PM UTC-4, Jacob Sayles wrote: > > I'm down here in San Francisco now, knee deep in renovations for The Red > Victorian <http://www.redvic.com> <http://www.redvic.com> and working on > their door lock solution. We don't want to use any smart phone systems > (Kevo, Lockitron, August, etc) because we can't know for sure what kind of > phone our guests will have, if they will even have phones, or if they are > charged when they arrive. We want to go with a personalized key code that > can be generated and emailed to them using the reservation system we built. > For that we are hooking up the existing electric strike on the front gate > to a raspberry pi and a wiegand keypad. The next bit of magic will be to > hook up each room with a Kwikset SmartCode lock and push the generated code > to the given room, and turn off the previous occupants code. > > > The advantages of going with the Kwikset are that it can use the existing > lock tumblers so we can keep the large amount of room keys we already have. > Also at around $120-$150 the price is right for outfitting 20+ doors. > People have been getting really excited about the idea of outfitting each > door with a raspberry pi but by the time we get power, servos, and a > durable enclosure hooked up it's going to be a lot more expensive. One pi > at the front door calling all the shots is all we need. Of course I have > to figure out how to send the key codes to each door so there is more R&D > needed. I'm also working to figure out the Wiegand protocol to hook up the > keypad. If anyone has played with this, please reach out. > > Jacob > > --- > Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation > http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 <tel:%28206%29%20323-6500> > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:34 AM, rachel cline <rclineco...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Good info, I saw the fobs cost about $25, I didn't notice you had to pay > for each virtual key also. > > Rachel Cline > 702-577-8627 > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 14, 2014, at 6:30 AM, Andy Soell <aso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The one thing I would recommend, if you’re looking at Kevo, is to make > sure you understand how their “ekey” pricing model works. Unless I’m > grossly misunderstanding, it looks like the way it works is that you have > to pay for packs of virtual “keys” to give to people before they can unlock > it with their phone. It seems a bit ridiculous to me that you have to pay > for the hardware and *then* pay again for each user you want to be able > to unlock the hardware. If you have a lot of members, the cost for the Kevo > system could end up being quite a bit higher than expected if you were only > looking at the cost of the hardware. > > > On Jul 12, 2014, at 11:43 PM, Rachel Cline <rclineco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Kevo looks great! thanks for sharing. Have you found any additional > information or reviews? > > On Friday, June 6, 2014 2:49:10 PM UTC-7, Andy Soell wrote: > > Love all these reviews, thanks for all the guidance everyone! Does anyone > have any experience with a newer Bluetooth-enabled locked called Kevo? > Works with iOS devices, and also supports key fobs for users with other > mobile phone platforms. > > http://www.kwikset.com/Kevo/ > > Looks promising, but I'm always a little wary of newer, untested products. > > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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