If you think you’ve seen everything the Android platform is capable of then you haven’t seen the new and improved Garage Door Opener by Brad Fitzpatric. I don’t think you will see this hack. uh..um app on the Android market but we will give you a link to the source code if you wanna play.
“I got it all working. I now have an Android Activity (GarageDoorActivity) which interacts with an Android Service I wrote (InRangeService), letting me start and stop the service’s wifi scanning task. The service gets the system WifiManager, holds a WifiLock to keep the radio active, and then does a Wifi scan every couple seconds, looking for my house.
When my house is in range, it does the magic HTTP request to my garage door opener’s webserver (HMAC-signed timestamped URL, for non-replayability/forgeability if sniffed) and my garage door opens. Complete with a bunch of fun Toast notifications (like Growl) and Android Notifications (both persistent ongoing notifications for background scanning, and one-time notifications for things like the garage door actually opening).”
The source code is here. When asked why he did not try to market the app the reply, in short, true form, was it was too much work… here is the code take it if you want. We can respect that view.
[ Brad’s Life]