Door Unlocker

David Klempfner
The Startup
Published in
11 min readMay 18, 2020

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could replace this:

With this?

The first photo is of the key I use to open the main entrance door to the block of units I live in. The second photo is a website I can use to unlock the main entrance door.

This tutorial will show you how to unlock the main entrance door with your phone, or any device that has a browser and an internet connection, by activating the button in your intercom that buzzes people in, thereby doing away with the need for a key.

Think of it as a remote control for your intercom’s button.

How it works

By the means below you can use your phone to access a website connected to the unit’s wireless network. The system communicates with the ESP32 (WIFI enabled microcontroller) and requires a password at the end of the URL.

The final product

Benefits

  1. Save money — The key to your unit is cheap and easy to copy. The problem is with the main entrance door key. It can only…

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David Klempfner
The Startup

I’m a software developer who is passionate about learning how things work behind the scenes.