Re: Automated front door lock?

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> >
> ><stuff snipped>
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> >> I used an IR operated deadbolt which, aside from a battery housing
looked
> >> like a standard deadbolt from inside and aside from an IR target and
LED
> >> looked like a standard deadbolt from the outside.
> >
> >Who makes it and is it still available?
>
>      http://www.smarthome.com/5180b.html
>
> I think you might find it for a bit less elsewhere. I got mine from Future
> Standard before Brian went out of business. I used a stronger strike plate
> than the one that comes with the lock.

Thanks!  I had never really considered IR as a possibility.  Were you able
to hack into it so that you could operate it remotely from the inside of the
house?

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Bobby G.