Basically the title. I confirmed with management that the system for these hotel style door locks are no longer in use and they likely even moved doors from their original location in the process of remodeling the building into apartments. I’m just trying to prevent myself from getting locked out and avoid using my regular key if I can. I’ve tried reading it with an NFC reader and it didn’t work so I imagine it was to be RFID?
Any tips on where to start? I am an experienced software engineer, but I haven’t done any hacking before. I can buy tools to do the job if necessary
Edit: Added pictures for the cynics. It is my apartment
Get a model number, find specs on what tech it uses, find manuals on it…. If the guides don’t exist yet to hack it, it’ll probably take quite a bit of work. You’ll have to reverse engineer its pairing/config protocol… or something like that.
But yeah, step 1 is information gathering. I mean, you’re a software engineer right? Engineer a solution.
My mistake on assuming there were already generic solutions to this kind of thing, judging by everyone’s responses, that is not the case