Ours faces west into the afternoon sun and we have never had any issues with it. It can be operated with gloves and has a high weather rating as well. I’d like the notifications to include who has opened it, based on the code used, but I almost always know based on the time of day anyway and that’s a software feature, not firmware.
I have dealt with many smart locks and my biggest beefs with most of them is that they get all scratched up with fobs on the glass, and the glass facades also get fingerprints all over them. Plus I hate the melodies they employ and the way they auto-lock when you close them (an option I have disabled on my Sense; I have also disabled beeps, but turned on the forced entry alarm which sounds just like a house alarm).
Mine is set up to connect to one of my Apple TVs upstairs and send me notifications when I am not home. After sunset it also turns on the lights at the entrance for 2 minutes and I have set up a spare door code for tradesmen. It’s funny if I get a call from the electrician to say he is at our place and can I give him the code, but I unlock the door for him while we are still on the phone. He didn’t see that one coming, even though he is a sparky. He was also impressed with the Philips dimmable candle LEDs that reduce the colour temperature as they are dimmed, but that’s a story for another day.
If there were one more software feature I would like besides knowing which user had accessed the door, it would be for it to only auto lock when it is closed. The Sense knows whether the door is closed and it can be set up to beep when opened or closed, so I really think it should be smart enough not to auto-lock when it’s open. But some models will always auto-lock when they are closed, which is quite annoying, so I’m glad I can disable that or set it to do it after a set time.
