Generate a one time valid link

[aurelutz2007]

How about generating a one time only valid link from the app and send that link to a friend who is just going to visit you?
Not all of our friends are having iPhones and this means that it does not matter what smartphone they have as long as they have internet connection, they will be able to open your gate when arriving to our homes.

[support]

That's a nice feature idea ... It was on our list but it does have some security implications ... We'll see how other people react to the idea ... Thanks for posting!

[aurelutz2007]

Could you be more specific and give us some details about security problems?

[support]

For instance if someone else intercepts the email containing the link ... emails aren't considered secure by nature ... Unless you had some other means in mind for sending that one-time link? That is also not easily implementable with the current backend implementation as it's 100% stateless (at least for now).

[aurelutz2007]

Sorry for my late replay.

Ok, I agree that emails are not safe enough for sending the link.
How about sending the link as text message (SMS)?
This should be safe.

[support]

Even SMS aren't super secure, but then again, even if we'd have a secure means of transport, the current backend is stateless and we don't have storage for tokens (at least at this time). This is a cool idea and we'll add to our backlog but I don't foresee this being implemented short term, unfortunately.