Chimera Doorlock

Overview

• Cards are synced with Cobot
• Cards are stored in cards.json in the root of the project (should be ~/doorlock/cards.json on the RaspberryPi)
• Logs are stored in logs.json in the root of the project (should be ~/doorlock/logs.json on the RaspberryPi)

TODO

• Update list of cards every few minutes
• Push up logs/checkins to management app
• Get working with Nexedus
• Handle error message

Configuring Raspberry Pi

On the RPI:

# Change to "sudo" user
sudo su

# Install nvm
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash

# Install forever
npm i -g forever

# Clone the project and install dependencies
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/chimera/doorlock.git
cd doorlock
nvm install
nvm use
npm install

# Setup environment variables
cp .env.example .env
vi .env
# Add missing environment variables

# Start app
forever start src/server.js

Follow the install from source guide for node-hid becuase there is no pre-built binary for RaspberryPi

npm install -g node-gyp
apt install build-essential git libudev-dev gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev
export CXX=g++-4.8
npm install node-hid --build-from-source

You should now be able to view the app at http://localhost:3000

Autostart

On a RasPi, copy the contents of the autostart file into: ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart (presuming you've downloaded this repo to /home/pi/doorlock)

Optionally, to help users with debugging, run ln -s /home/pi/doorlock/start.sh ~/Desktop/start-doorlock.sh to give them a link on the desktop.

Or generally, find some way to run ./start.sh in this folder

Further reading

• USB Relay library
• https://obrienlabs.net/setup-raspberry-pi-kiosk-chromium/

Contributing

Contributions welcome!

Want to contribute? Submit a Pull Request with your changes!

Using this in your own project? Let us know by creating an issue in Github!

Credits

Developed by Dana Woodman © 2018.

License

MIT