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).