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esp-rfid-py
Firmware for property access systems for common microcontrollers like ESP8266.
Inspired by ESP-RFID, written in Micro Python ((Pycopy)[https://github.com/pfalcon/pycopy] fork).
Status
This project is in experimental stage.
Compared to official ESP-RFID firmware lacks a lot of elementary features. Implemented features needs testing, but even at this stage should have less bugs.
Features
- Supports multiple Wiegand readers
- Supports multiple relays with different configurations
- Master card - use "admin" tag to add new tags
- Can run on all platforms supported by MicroPython (theoretically, tested on ESP8266 and ESP32)
- Can be controlled and send logs over MQTT
- HTTP API
- MQTT client (access log, heartbeat, open, cards management)
- Cards import and export to JSON by REPL
Complete list of features is in example config file.
Goals
Scalable and reliable modular, events-based and asynchronous architecture which allows:
- enable only needed features by plugins
- code being less bug prone
- easy coding of new features (e.g. integrations to bigger systems)
- thanks to Python the code is much easier to read and maintain
Current disadvantages
- Missing features and worse usability compared to ESP-RFID for now - it have to be configured in config files and database managed in REPL by calling Python API.
- MicroPython consumes much more RAM, so some features will be almost impossible on ESP8266 (embedded web interface).
- Will not support a many plugins enabled at one time (because of RAM).
- Missing compatibility with ESP-RFID export files (because current MicroPython Wiegand library encodes data differently).