[misterhouse-users] Re: Ok, maybe I went overboard a little...

[Jon S. <mh...@ca...>]

Hey Robert,

They retail for about $1,100 for the Bioscrypt V-Pass reader.  That is the
only reader that does 1 to many verification.  In other words, when you scan
your finger the reader automaticly scans through up to 200 fingerprints on
board for a match.  The other readers Bioscrypt has are 1 to 1 readers.  You
must scan a card or enter a PIN number on the reader, and then you scan your
finger.  They only check your finger print against the one it has on file
for the card or PIN number.  Because of this difference, the V-Pass (1 to
many) verification was what I needed, but seems to be he rarest.  And
besides that its the only one that has rs232 and rs485 output (and wiegand
if you want it).  I guess you could say I got lucky and I kept an on going
search on ebay and finally found one that didn't sell after listing it
several times for $500.00.  I offered the guy $100 for it and he agreed.
=)  I might take some pictures of it if anyone is interested.

According to the documentation, if you set it to the highest setting, there
is a 1/10000 chance that a stranger could place theor finger on the sensor
and get verified.  It seems to be very reliable when I have been testing it.
Takes less than a second to be verified (everything is done on board).
Overall, I'm very impressed with it.  I just need to figure out how to get
misterhouse to read the data since the commands don't have character returns
after them.

Thanks,

Jon Scott


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Rozman" <ro...@fr...>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.misc.misterhouse.user
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: Ok, maybe I went overboard a little...


> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in those devices. Where did you buy them and how much did
> they cost ?
>
> Are they really realiable ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Scott" <mh...@ca...>
> To: <mis...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:16 AM
> Subject: [misterhouse-users] Ok, maybe I went overboard a little...
>
>
> > I decided that I wanted keyless entry for my house using electric
> deadbolts.
> > Well, at first I was going to get some proximity card readers, but that
to
> > me is just like a key.  I finally jumped the gun and decided that if I'm
> > going to go that far, I might as well just get full blown fingerprint
> > readers for the doors.... and I did.... lol... the same ones used by
NASA
> =)
> >
> > I got one of the bioscrypt readers and have it mounted by the door with
> > rs232 output.  I got all the hardware working perfectly... now it's just
> > adding it to MH.  I thought it would be pretty simple, but it turns out
> that
> > the commands sent out by the reader don't have a trailing character
return
> > like I expected. Or at least I came to this conclusion as a result of
> > hyperterminal's output and the failure of my serial item commands in MH.
> I
> > have no clue how to easily  input them as a result of this.... anyone
have
> > any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jon Scott
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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