Door Entry
'wondered if anyone knew of an app (iPhone) that can be used to send a message to Cortex just by tapping its icon ...
message to be varied from time to time, and perhaps the possibility of a choice of three messages ...
for releasing locks on front door & opening garage doors ...
???
There are GSM gate openers. These have a couple of relays and you just dial the GSM box let it ring a couple of times and it opens the gate. You can set up via text messages allowed numbers etc.
Have a look at these links
http://www.gate-opener.co.uk/
http://www.quantekshop.co.uk/gsm%20g...ontroller.html
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/sms-...-wireless.html
http://www.gsm-caravan-alarm.co.uk/m...ate_opener.htm
And a homebrew version
http://www.35thchamber.com/content/s...ed-gate-opener
Uses google voice,may be able to use Skype or VoipBuster.
IF YOU CAN'T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER, YOU'VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM.
www.casatech.eu
interesting, thanks ...
tempting, and some useful insights, too ...
in our case, though, we'd need three ...
and we already have the house end of the set-up, we're just short of the 'phone end ...
ie: Cortex makes a pretty good job of interfacing with the locks & openers, allowing all sorts of interlocks & checks, and it can deal with e-mails & SMS & even Skype, to a degree - e-mail would be preferred, to avoid the costs of having to have more SIM cards - but ... the UI would be far too long-winded to be useful for everyday opening of doors ...
'tis one of life's mysteries, that Idratek have nothing to offer in the App world of iOS & others ... so far, at least ...
not easy, of course, to do well - there are some quite elaborate Apps available for (eg) iPhone, that provide Remote Control functionality, but none seems to go quite far enough or to offer a suitably direct & intuitive interface ...
Last edited by chris_j_hunter; 16th April 2012 at 05:16 PM.
OK - just noticed this :
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/vbull...ead.php?t=3345
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Are you wanting an icon that is essentially an app - and so is literally a one press from the iPhone home screen to perform a function - or would you be happy launching an app that then displayed a number of buttons to do what you want. If the latter then this will work for you via xAP into Cortex :-)Originally Posted by chris_j_hunter
The HTML5 solution looks great - and if of course a great cross platform solution - it's about time we had some HA control appearing using this... It may also be a better solution outside of your LAN as xAP normally uses broadcast UDP which of course doesn't route over the Internet. You can work around this using an app called 'iServer' running at home which is a way of transporting xAP over TCP / Internet.
K
Last edited by Kevin; 22nd April 2012 at 11:35 AM.
not sure - one touch approach could be good, two could be OK, time to respond also a factor, as also range of operation ...
scenario is probably characterised by mother arriving home with demanding baby on one arm & 'phone in pocket or handbag ...
and wanting to get indoors via one of three different doors ...
with alternatives of a bunch of traditional keys and something like wall-mounted keyboards ...
so while it needs to be simple & quick, the competition won't put up much of a fight !
and Cortex could probably up the ante by making it functionally quite smart, too - eg: context-sensitive timings & joining-up with other things ...
Chris
Last edited by chris_j_hunter; 22nd April 2012 at 01:13 PM.
Something like this perhaps?
(Multi-platform - HTML5)
Last edited by Karam; 20th April 2012 at 01:08 AM.
Nice, I hope it is easily ported so that those not on the Apple bandwagoncould also get hold of it.
Paul
imagine that's why it's being done in HTML5 ...
A preview of v26? How long to wait?Something like this perhaps
(Multi-platform - HTML5)
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