# bathroom

**Repository Path**: mirrors_DataDog/bathroom

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: bathroom
- **Description**: Bathroom door lock sensors
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-3-Clause
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2026-02-28

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Background

You can find more details on the project and implementation on [Datadog's Engineering blog](http://engineering.datadoghq.com/restroom-hacks/).

# Setup

```
sudo apt-get install daemontools-run git ucspi-tcp

git clone git@github.com:DataDog/bathroom.git

# Test sensor hookup
BATHROOM_CONFIG="12 men left:14:nc,12 men right:15:nc" bathroom/bin/bathroom_status

# Going the djb way mostly because this version of raspbian doesn't have a sane
# init system.
sudo mkdir /service
sudo mv bathroom /service/bathroom
ln -s /service/bathroom . # for convenience if you want
mkdir /service/bathroom/envdir/
echo "12 men left:14:nc,12 men right:15:nc" > /service/bathroom/envdir/BATHROOM_CONFIG # set according to your setup
sudo adduser --system --shell=/usr/sbin/nologin --ingroup=gpio bathroom
sudo ln -s /service/bathroom /etc/service/bathroom
```

# Usage

```
$ nc bathroom.example.com 50
Bathroom Status:
left: Available
right: Available
```