From 5feac037c535dbd499a1bfbc344788cd26d23e07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Workantile <maintainers@workantile.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 13:33:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Changing to 'sidedoor'

---
 doorrc   |  3 ++-
 doors.py | 13 ++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doorrc b/doorrc
index f79e8b0..3c11f2c 100644
--- a/doorrc
+++ b/doorrc
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 
 # Name of this Raspberry Pi unit
-CONTROLLER="deadbeef01"
+#CONTROLLER="deadbeef01"
+CONTROLLER="sidedoor"
 
 # Server to send requests to
 SERVER = "http://openings.workantile.com/access/" + CONTROLLER
diff --git a/doors.py b/doors.py
index abf1f39..689a7a5 100644
--- a/doors.py
+++ b/doors.py
@@ -99,13 +99,20 @@ import serial
 
 RFID_SERIAL = serial.Serial(RFID_PATH, 2400, timeout=1)
 
-while True:
+def read_rfid():
     string = RFID_SERIAL.read(12)
     if len(string) == 0:
         print("No tag read")
-        continue
+        #continue
     else:
-        key = string[1:11] #exclude start x0A and stop x0D bytes
+        key = string[1:11].decode() #exclude start x0A and stop x0D bytes
         print(key)
         verify_key(key)
         RFID_SERIAL.flushInput() # ignore errors, no data
+
+
+while True:
+    try:
+        read_rfid()
+    except Exception(e):
+        print(e)