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Unlock Your Door by Tapping Your iPhone With Schlage's New Smart Lock
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I replaced our deadbolt with a smart lock and then replaced the other locking doorhandle with one that does not lock. Its not like the doorhandle lock is very strong anyways. We then reinforced the deadbolt jams with longer screws and a steel plate to help with kick-ins.
Is it really common practice to share keys? I don’t think most people have a housekeeper, but I also don’t think those housekeepers have iPhones, or the ones which clean my house.
why would you. the doorknob doesnt have the level of security a deadbolt has, its addition is not increased security, as if the person has the determination to bypass or destroy the deadbolt, the knob is most assuredly not contributing.
no one "has to unlock the door knob" if they're simply not using that as a pointless point of security.
It’s a lot safer than an actual key. You lose a key, you have to change hardware. You lose your phone, you can cut it off from it being used to unlock your door in seconds.
This is great for those people who have a habit of accidentally leaving their house keys inside the house.
You don’t have spares inside the house? I get how using a phone might be more convenient for some people, but smart locks feel like a solution seeking a problem
You lost a key is an issue, because someone else might find it. If that key is with something that identifies you and your house, you have to change the hardware. That’s my point.
Also, what’s the problem that smart locks are causing?
Not in a house with kids (or spouse) that routinely forget to lock the door or can never find keys.
You have to adjust the strike plate. Once it is adjusted then you just pull the door closed and it will lock like butter.
I looked on the website and found this in the specification:
Keying: 5-pin tumbler, C Keyway, 1 key included
As mentioned earlier, a locksmith should have no problem with this. I actually rekey my own, but that’s not for everybody. One of my attempts at this failed kind of spectacularly. I put a wrong spacer in and the key didn’t work. I wound up throwing the lock away as I couldn’t get it apart again.
Pointless.
My keys and my keychain are also my self defense weapons if someone tries to jack my phone.
If they try to jack my phone my house key going in their face.
You can’t defend yourself with your phone.
You can defend yourself with your key.
My keys and my keychain are also my self defense weapons if someone tries to jack my phone.
If they try to jack my phone my house key going in their face.
You can’t defend yourself with your phone.
You can defend yourself with your key.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I tend to keep my wallet separate from my keys, so I haven’t yet experienced converged losses. To me, that mitigates or reduces the chance that someone can use a key for my house. Granted, a smart key of any form may resolve this doubt.
Looking at the UK market, the HomeKit market is anemic. We do have some smart locks but I’d really need to think about replacing the lock on the PVC outer door. Actually, the state is not great, the locks currently allow you to lock your door using your voice and check the lock status. To me that doesn’t yet add value, because interacting with Siri has a lot to be desired and locking the door is much faster than Siri.
This introduces another mode of interaction: NFC. That hasn’t been done in this country outside of business use cases. Maybe I am being too harsh?
There are only two of us in the den, and we usually go out together or one of us stays at home. Getting buyin from my fiancé would be difficult.
Not if you don't install a keyed knob.
Ask yourself just what purpose a keyed doorknob serves? Does it do anything different against forced entry than a non-keyed knob?
Way I figure someone kicking in the door isn't going to be holding the knob open while they step back to kick in the door. Nor would the keyed knob do anything w.r.t the person smashing a sidelight to reach in and unlock the locks. Only case where it'd matter would be slowing down a lock picker, but is that really going to matter?
Turn the question around...
Why are you still carrying keys?
My car's keyfob is a thick credit-card shape that stays in my wallet. My office uses a badge reader. I have an older Schlage lock with Homekit capability and a keypad.
I've not carried keys around for years.
Why are you?
Interesting. I've had nothing but good luck with ours.
The AppleTV4K which serves as the homekit hub is about 15 feet away though, so perhaps that proximity makes a difference?
I do keep an unpublished code enabled on the lock just in case - worse comes to worse a guest can call me and I'll give them that code and then change it later if necessary.
No you don't. It has a keypad, and it also works with Apple Watch.
Granted, if you're doing keypad only there's little reason to go buy this instead of what you have. My point is that Schlage seems to be adding abilities without taking legacy options away. This new one still does key, keypad, homekit, and now the new stuff.
You sure? Per the product page...
It is for this reason that my code, my wife's code, and my daughter's code together end up covering all ten digits. So long as our usage isn't heavily skewed to just one of us, then there's relatively even wear across all.
You use a keyed knob for your bathroom?
How nervous about being disturbed while sitting on the throne are you?
Serious question -- how many burglaries occur via the lock being picked instead of the door being kicked in, the door being crowbar'd open, a sidelight being smashed, or a window being smashed?
Just asking because of the two home burglaries I've experienced (one growing up, other at the house my wife lived in while we were dating), entry was via crowbar or kicking the door open.
If they're Schlage keyways, any HomeDepot or Lowes or probable ACE can rekey existing deadbolts to the new key. Just need to take them in.
Thus the keypad. You can set a code for the housekeeper and make it valid only between certain times on certain days.
(the older Schlage Sense has that capability and presumably this updated model would also)
Nope! This has been my exact problem with all of these motorized "smart locks" at both my previous home and my current residence. I had the August locks for a back door and an entry door to my detached garage, previously. And no matter what I did to try to make them work smoothly, the changes in temperature between summer and winter would cause the wooden doors and/or frames to shrink or expand enough so the bolt would stick or not quite align unless you pulled on the door while it was moving.
I have one on a side door now with a keypad, and it's handy ... but when the temperature changes, I have to fiddle with it a bit when it tries to lock. Sometimes, instead of pulling it completely closed, I have to just slightly open it a small crack and then it'll lock properly.
Just a cautionary note: Go to your local home store and get a metal door jam guard. It installs in a few minutes and it will keep your local break-in artist from just kicking the door in regardless of the deadbolt or door lock. The wood in the door jams is really cheap, glued-together poplar or some other crappy wood.
Yeah... that's my feeling about it too. Realistically, your door lock just keeps the honest people honest, and deters the casual "knob twister" who would walk in un-invited only if it was easy to do.
Picking the lock to get in is the hard way to go about things. Some pros might do that if they fancy themselves real experts at doing it quickly and efficiently. (Less noisy would be the big advantage for them that way.) But most will just kick a door open, because even a great deadbolt is only as good as the frame it fits into. And it's not like most homes are equipped with industrial type steel door-frames like you might find in a hotel room or business office.
It depends...
this is a "4-digit" pass code:
and this is a 256-bit pass code (that you will not pick):
anyway the point is that hackers steals "online", while burglars steals physically. With these "smart" locks both of them can steal physically so u have two menaces instead of one.
I only ever use the deadbolt because the lock in the knob is easier for a thief to overcome so it really doesn’t add much. The best thing to have is a long deadbolt with a steel door and frame.