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# 🚪 doorman — badge access control, modernized
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> **USB badge readers → pure-bash listeners → Home Assistant brains → relay-actuated door strike.**
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> Fail-closed by construction: if the brain is unreachable, the door stays shut.
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Physical access control for the server-room door: a keyboard-emulating
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USB RFID reader listener on the reader host, dispatching scans to
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Home Assistant, which owns the whitelist, logging, alerts, and the
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unlock decision.
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**Dedicated docs:** [Discourse t/318](https://community.turnsys.com/t/318)
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· Tracking: [Redmine #345](https://projects.knownelement.com/issues/345) →
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[#355](https://projects.knownelement.com/issues/355) (code) →
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[#356](https://projects.knownelement.com/issues/356) (deployment) ·
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HA config: [KNEL/pfv-bms](https://git.knownelement.com/KNEL/pfv-bms) ·
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Fleet: [KNEL/PFVCluster](https://git.knownelement.com/KNEL/PFVCluster)
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---
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## 🧭 Architecture — one scan, end to end
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```mermaid
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sequenceDiagram
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autonumber
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participant B as 🪪 Badge
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participant R as 📡 USB reader (HID kbd)
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participant L as doorman.sh (reader host)
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participant H as 🏠 Home Assistant
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participant RO as 🔒 access-roster (private repo)
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participant D as ⚡ doorctl (pfvsvrpi)
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participant S as 🚪 Door strike
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B->>R: tap
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R->>L: HID scancodes (/dev/input/eventN)
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L->>L: od(1)+awk(1) decode → badge_id
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L->>H: POST webhook {badge_id, reader, ts}
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H->>RO: REST roster poll (every 300 s)
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alt HA unreachable
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L-->>L: log + DROP (fail-closed)
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else known + enabled
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alt armed + not local_unlock
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H->>D: GET /unlock/<token> (Tailscale)
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D->>D: source-IP allowlist + token check
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D->>S: relay=1 … hold … =0 (EXIT-trap secured)
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H-->>H: logbook + push notification
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else break-glass scan
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L->>D: relay fired locally already
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L->>H: local_unlock:true → HA logs, no re-dispatch
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end
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else unknown / disabled badge
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H-->>H: instant alert 🚨 + logbook
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end
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```
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### The three decision lanes
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| Lane | Condition | Outcome |
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|------|-----------|---------|
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| ✅ **Unlock** | badge in roster **and** enabled **and** arm switch ON | relay fires for the hold window; logbook + notification |
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| 🚨 **Alert** | badge unknown **or** in-roster-but-disabled | instant push alert; nothing actuates |
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| 🧯 **Break-glass** | badge listed in `DOORMAN_BREAKGLASS_IDS` on the reader host | relay fires **locally** — works even with HA down; HA is told afterwards |
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The **arm switch** (`input_boolean.doorman_unlock_enabled` in HA) is a
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founder-level control: OFF = valid badges log and notify, but the door
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stays shut.
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---
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## 🛡️ Security model
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- **HA is the single authentication brain** — the listener never decides.
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- **Fail-closed**: HA unreachable → scan logged, door does not open.
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- **Badge IDs never live in this repo.** The whitelist is the private
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[`KNEL/access-roster`](https://git.knownelement.com/KNEL/access-roster)
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repo (two-human PR gate); HA fetches it live via API. All fixtures in
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this repo use synthetic IDs — real ones were redacted 2026-09-03.
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- **doorctl** (the unlock endpoint on the Pi):
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- systemd **socket activation**, bound to the Pi's Tailscale IP only
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- **token in the URL** (secret; `0600` env file on-box, never in git)
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- **per-connection source-IP allowlist** (HA + the Pi itself)
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- **EXIT-trap self-securing**: relay returns to 0 even if the hold is killed
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- every accept **and** every deny logged to journald (`-t doorctl`)
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- Secrets discipline: `/etc/default/doorman` (`0600`) holds webhook URL,
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unlock token, break-glass IDs — nothing sensitive is committable.
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---
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## 📡 Fleet
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| Host | Role | Reader device | Arch |
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|------|------|---------------|------|
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| `pfvsvrpi` | **prod** (server-room door) | `/dev/input/event0` | aarch64 |
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| `ultix-field` | dev / staging | `/dev/input/event15` | x86_64 |
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Deploy discipline: **ultix-field first, verify end-to-end, then
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pfvsvrpi** — never both at once.
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---
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## 🚀 Deploy (reader host)
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```bash
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sudo mkdir -p /opt/doorman
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sudo cp bin/doorman.sh /opt/doorman/bin/ # + this repo, or rsync
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sudo cp deploy/doorman.service /etc/systemd/system/
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sudo cp .env.example /etc/default/doorman # fill in; chown root:root
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sudo chmod 600 /etc/default/doorman
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sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable --now doorman
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```
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Record width auto-detects (24 B on 64-bit kernels, 16 B on 32-bit Pis).
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Logs go to journald (`-t doorman`); `DOORMAN_DEBUG=true` mirrors to stderr.
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## 🧪 Testing (no hardware needed)
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```bash
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bash tests/run-tests.sh # decoder suite (9 tests): synthetic HID event fixtures
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bash tests/test-breakglass.sh # break-glass list matching (7 tests)
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bash tests/test-doorctl.sh # doorctl endpoint
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bash tests/shellcheck.sh # lint gate (docker, zero-warning)
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```
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`--selftest` decodes a fixture and prints one badge ID per line — the
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entire test surface of the decoder, including the 2018 quirks we
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intentionally preserve (usage passthrough 0-9, bad-usage parity-anchor
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behavior, empty-scan suppression).
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## 🔗 Webhook contract (HA side)
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`POST <DOORMAN_WEBHOOK_URL>` with JSON:
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```json
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{"badge_id": "0000000001", "reader": "pfvsvrpi", "ts": "2026-09-02T19:12:44-0500"}
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```
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Values are digits + env-provided strings; the JSON cannot carry
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user-controlled quotes/backslashes. Any 2xx satisfies the listener.
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The token lives in the URL path — treat it as a secret.
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---
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## 📜 Lineage
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Successor of the 2018 Perl doorman
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([KNEL/LegacyTechops `doorman/`](https://git.knownelement.com/KNEL/LegacyTechops/src/branch/master/doorman/doorman.pl)),
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carried under [`legacy/`](legacy/doorman.pl). Same reader class
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(keyboard-emulating USB RFID), same decode semantics — the defunct
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plain-HTTP auth portal (`doors.pfv.turnsys.net`) is **not** replicated.
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## 🗺️ Repo map
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| Path | What |
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| `bin/doorman.sh` | The listener daemon |
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| `bin/doorctl.sh` | Socket-activated unlock endpoint |
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| `deploy/doorman.service` | systemd unit (`/etc/default/doorman` env) |
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| `tests/` | Offline suites — decoder, break-glass, doorctl, lint |
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| `legacy/` | Verbatim 2018 Perl snapshot (badge IDs redacted) |
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| `scripts/` | Rule engine + hooks (adopted from TSYSGroupAIOS) |
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