Portik

One tap. The door is open.

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Portik unlocks the doors where you live or work with one tap. It talks to your Aptus passage system, the same portal you would otherwise sign in to in a browser.

Getting started

  1. The address is the same one you use to sign in to the Aptus Home app, or to the passage or booking system in a browser. Look at the address bar and take the first part, like name.aptustotal.se, without https:// and without whatever follows it, usually /AptusPortal.
  2. Sign in to Portik with the same username and password you use in the portal.
  3. Tap the door you want to open.
  4. Rename, reorder, switch off doors you don't need and create groups.

Common questions

No doors appear

The account has no doors that can be opened through the portal. Whoever runs the system decides which doors your account reaches.

Sign-in is refused although the password is right

Check the portal address first. Write just the name, like name.aptustotal.se, without https:// and without whatever follows it. The app adds the rest.

A group of doors takes a few seconds

The portal handles one door at a time per session, roughly 1.4 seconds each. The app sends every request at once, but the portal works through them in order.

I already use Aptus Home

Aptus Home is Aptus's own app and does several things, bookings among them. Portik replaces one of them: opening the door. That is all Portik does, and it can be done straight from the Home Screen. Keep Aptus Home for the rest.

Siri does not answer when I say it

Open Shortcuts and go to Portik's page. Tap the ⓘ next to Unlock and check that Siri is switched on. The phrase has to contain the word Portik, because iOS requires the app's name to be in it.

The door did not open

Open Settings, then Troubleshooting. It says what happened, and you can share the whole log with one tap. The log never contains your password.

A widget on the Home Screen

One widget is one door or one group. For more doors, add more widgets, and each carries its own name and shows its own result.

  1. Hold a finger on the Home Screen until the icons wobble, tap Edit and choose Add Widget.
  2. Search for Portik, pick a size and tap Add Widget.
  3. A widget that has just been added says Choose a door. Hold it, choose Edit Widget and point out the door or group. Tap outside to close.

A button in Control Center

A button in Control Center is one door or one group, the same as a widget. It sits one swipe away wherever you are on the phone.

  1. Swipe down from the top right corner and choose Add a Control.
  2. Search for Portik and choose Unlock.
  3. The door picker opens straight away. Point out the door or group.

Shortcuts

Portik's action is called Unlock. It leaves five fields behind to build on: Unlocked, Door or group, Result, Group and Number of doors. Tap the variable in the next action, then Type, to choose a field.

  1. Add Unlock and choose a door or group.
  2. Add If, with the Unlocked field as the condition.
  3. In each branch, add Show Notification with your own words. Door or group gives the name, Result gives a finished sentence about what happened.

Saying it to Siri

Portik answers without you building anything: Open the gate with Portik, Unlock the bike room with Portik, Open the door with Portik. The door names are your own, so renaming a door in the app changes what you can say. Every phrase contains the word Portik, because iOS requires the app's name to be in it. To say only open the door, make a shortcut and name it exactly that; Siri runs shortcuts by their name.

A tag by the door

A blank NFC tag on the door frame, and an automation in Shortcuts that runs Unlock when the phone touches it. Then you hold the top edge of the phone against the frame and the door opens. The screen needs to be on, but the phone does not need to be unlocked. No screen to search, nothing to tap. The tag holds nothing and cannot open the door for anyone else; the automation lives in your phone. Any blank tag of the standard kind works. If you are putting it on metal you need a tag marked on-metal.

  1. Open Shortcuts, the Automation tab and tap New Automation. Choose NFC.
  2. Tap Scan and hold the top edge of the phone against the tag. Give it a name.
  3. Choose Run Immediately, not Run After Confirmation, because otherwise you get a question every time.
  4. Search for Portik, tap Unlock and pick a door or group.
  5. Stick the tag where the hand holding the phone lands when you stand at the door. One tag is one door; more doors are more tags.

The back of the phone and the Action button

Two buttons you already have. Under Settings › Accessibility › Touch › Back Tap, a double or triple tap on the back of the phone can run a shortcut. Make one with Unlock and choose it there. If your iPhone has an Action button, choose a shortcut the same way under Settings › Action Button. Both work with the phone in your hand and your eyes on the door.

Get in touch

Write to portik-beta@zerolabs.se. Attach the troubleshooting report from the app if you can; it says more than a screenshot.