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).
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.