Thought I would give http://isvhsopen.com a little attention so check it out.
Looking for feedback and ideas on things to add, current ideas include:
Anything else you would like to see?
Nice to have
Looks amazing, Your my hero !
Yes, seconding dog photos and google calendar links! Looks great so far, although the upcoming events don’t show up on my phone for whatever reason (WP7.8). I realize I’m the only person with this phone, so it might not be worth fixing.
Super awesome, an update was severely needed .
Whats missing now is when you hovered over something before, the exact time that is was open, popped up. (And perhaps even the date).
I want it flashier with more animated gifs and music.
A simpler text response for use in wap browsers. (isvhsopen.com/plain)
SMS interface (voip.ms has a currently free sms service, that will cost 1 cent per message once they decide to start charging for it)
Hector, current status in JSON is available at http://isvhsopen.com/api/status/
Not as nice as plaintext, but it should work in WAP I think.
Nitpick: 24H clock!
More and ical are done, I didn’t do the add event just because I think that can be covered in the “More” section. The calendar needs to be re-done on the website side and I feel that’s out of scope
I’ll be tracking how often internally the door is updated, if I don’t hear from a door within x hours i’ll display a “not sure” status
Done
I didn’t care for the “x minutes ago” so I switched it to the time it was open, either “4:30pm”, “Yesterday at 4:30pm”, “Sunday, 4:30pm” or “Sunday 29th” depending on how long ago it was opened.
Done: http://isvhsopen.com/plain
But but but, i want to make it more readable!
This is awesome. I love it just the way it is.
I think it would look better in periwinkle blue
Holy crap, you asked for advice, got nitpicky suggestions, and you actually implemented them??? You are a god among devs!
Seriously, this is all kinds of awesome. I’m going to showcase the hell out of it to CBC tonight.
Wow, that could almost be the VHS frontpage as far as I’m concerned.
Hey, is this done pretty much, or do you guys have something else in mind?
If it’s all finished, could someone get like a million pictures of the
enclosure? Outside, inside, closeups of the PCB, etc?
I’d like to write up a blog post (or someone more involved can if they
like) and submit it to HackaDay. More community people using it → more
cred / pull requests / etc
We love cred
Yeah, it’s pretty much done. There’s certainly a number of desirable to-do’s but it’s all working currently as-is. Note that if you open the box, the front plate is pressure-fit and all the others are glued. The ribbon cable for the number pad is also quite short, so try to pull it out carefully before lifting away the front of the box. To get it off the wall, push it up a couple cm; it’s hanging on two screws. Don’t bother taking it apart while on the wall because it’ll be too awkward. Let me know if you have any questions about it. @bruce did the custom board and AVR programming, so he knows the most about that side of things.
Ont he hardware side. I mentioned this to @Shane before but I thought I would also put it here.
It would be nice to be able to write to the “open” clock via REST locally. The clock would be the “owner” of the “open” time while other devices could update this time. This would allow us to create other interfaces to the “open” time. For example a “Close right now” button or “add 1 hour” button. The REST API would only need to be accessible locally.
Does that make sense?
Done. On the VHS local network (when you are physically at the space), go to http://isvhsopen-spacetime/ and it describes how to open/close the space and change the time.
Slowly starting to document what I know here:
http://vanhack.ca/doku.php?id=hacks:isvhsopen
If anyone would like to help flesh out, fix errors, cleanup style, and add
links/pictures, please do.
