Okay, so not strictly a programming question BUT the point is I want to integrate my new building’s business access/alarm system into the rest of my *NIX setup at my business. I do NOT want to use some cruddy windows GUI program written for Windows XP SP1 that manages a bare circuit-board via a serial connection and provides absolutely zero APIs. There’s got to be something decent out there!
Any decent access/alarm hardware vendors out there? I’d love to interface via python, perl, ruby, etc. to some nice control panel that has an integrated NIC. Heck, I’d even settle for some CLI tool that I could at least exec and parse.
We’ve got mag card readers on doors/elevators, mag locks, rex’s, fingerprint readers, etc. for our access.
We’ve got standard door/window, motion, etc. for our alarm.
Hardware vendor suggestions?
I ended up finding some good hardware by eData that was run off of embedded Linux with ssh, SOAP, REST, and Web GUI access. Unfortunately the integrator bid way too high and wouldn’t commit to working in our time frame, so we ended up with the crappy Kantech stuff. Yay serial cables. 🙁