I have built a small business to solve a similar problem for Property Managers: to manage all their phone-based intercoms (Doorking, LiftMaster, etc.) in one easy-to-use (and patented) SAAS UI. I did work with a similar integrators like RemoteLock.com (but love your approach a lot more).
Would love to work with you, check it out at www.DropBy.io and feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]
this is awesome! Not sure if you saw our hardware bridge, but it's custom built specifically for DoorKing units to bring them online and what not. I'll drop you a note now.
My experience (over maybe 10 years of using SSH-CAs) was similar, I mean by using long-term key pairs (mostly for humans) and shorter certificates. I can imagine secretive to be a very useful tool for SSH-CAs and other uses. I also like the fact that you can't import a key, makes it pretty clear that A- it's a specific device, and B- there is a human adding their bio info to unlock it.
Your experience of SSH CAs is different from mine (that doesn't make it wrong). My experience is that the major motivation for SSH CAs is linking SSH authentication to MFA SSO. The long-lived secrets here are the MFA secrets.
Very useful to know, thanks for explaining more. I am curious to know (if you happen to remember) if this was an off-the-shelf product, and if so which one? I assume the product was either an MFA device or an SSH/SSO solution or both.
I've worked with teams that did bespoke versions, but Teleport is the most popular implementation of the idea right now. The underlying idea is trivial, right? You have an SSO RP that is a CA, and issues short-lived certs based on SSO IdP logins; the simple SSH certificate machinery makes this work across your fleet.
I’m still doing it on the side, but I did get some help from others over the years. Mainly some friends put some $ and got 2 other great partners helping me also on the side. One is in the property management business which is very helpful. He came first as a customer.
Can you elaborate how there is no need for hardware changes?
Are you connecting through the earpiece somehow?
Some time ago I hacked our flat intercom. I needed to have a text message delivered when the intercom rang (we use it to open door to the building), I had to tap to it with an arduino.
Cool. Always great to hear what people tried to do with these intercoms. I played with Arduino myself a lot for similar reasons. Thanks for sharing.
It’s simple actually. We program all the units to call our cloud phone numbers. These numbers are shared among all US customers, so service is cheap to run. Also we got a patent in how we process these calls.
We then process, record, forward, these calls to their destinations. And also we send text message updates for certain events.
How does it work without internet? "zero hardware upgrades, or internet required."
And for the tip, please make a better presentation video what the product and benefits are, with a voice over. You can get one from freelancer sites as low as 20$
I described it above for previous comment but basically we program all the units to call our phone numbers. And then we process these calls in the cloud, record, forward, log, etc.. interface between intercom and us is phone line.
Wow... this is so validating. I worked on a project I called "Buzz Me Up Scotty" (Or something like that) to do a very similar thing. Just glad someone proved the vision.
We removed pricing, one reseller wanted that out. But good point, I think we should add it again and be transparent since his business is good but not good enough to do so.
Your signup page still loads to a blank gray page for me in Chrome and Firefox.
uBlock Origin, which is installed by my IT department, seems to be blocking the load of a JavaScript file from fast.appcues.com, not sure if that's the cause or not.
I have built a small business to solve a similar problem for Property Managers: to manage all their phone-based intercoms (Doorking, LiftMaster, etc.) in one easy-to-use (and patented) SAAS UI. I did work with a similar integrators like RemoteLock.com (but love your approach a lot more).
Would love to work with you, check it out at www.DropBy.io and feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]
Again, great great idea!