Is this portable?

[amunizp]

I was thinking of using this system for our door entry and controlling access to more dangerous equipment. Is this system portable to other hackspaces/fablabs? or is it very tied in with LHS system.

What licence is this system under?

[JasperWallace]

Hi,

License is permissive/BSD ish (unless you'd like other wise @jasiek ?)

It can be re-used for other things, but you'll need to implement the http api that it calls into.

You'll also need a way of capturing the id's from rfid cards and matching them with users in a database etc.

[jasiek]

I think BSD would be a very good license.

[mentarus]

The backend that's currently used is https://github.com/londonhackspace/acserver but it's written in PHP and it's not "hip" enough for most today hackers apparently. There is a new one in the works on https://github.com/londonhackspace/acserver-django

[zymurgic]

London Hackspace has now changed the acserver backend to a python / django flavoured backend.

For offsite testing, which wouldn't normally have access past the firewalls, I have just used a random web server with flat files. If a GET request with a card ID returns something that says the door should open, it will.

One thing worth noting is that at London Hackspace, we've moved entirely away from broadcast announcers, and now use MQTT to announce door entry, doorbells and the like. We may remove the broadcast announcer functionality from future versions of the acnode-cl codebase to avoid confusion and save some space on the Launchpad.

Another thing that it doesn't have is the ability to locally fully maintain the cache of good card details, which would give it the ability to act as a standalone, non-connected door entry system if required.

[amunizp]

Thank you!
So should I make a pull request to add a free culture licence?

Can it be something replicated in other spaces, or is it something that will only work with the full LHS infrastructure?