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re: Would you let an app lock your front door? Meet Amazon's Alexa
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:33 am to Peazey
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:33 am to Peazey
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Why do you need to access an app instead of just turning the bolt into place?
No one said they need this.
This is not instead of.
Therefore it is not
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making things more complicated
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Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:33 am to NYNolaguy1
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To make use of the skill, you'll need anAugust Connect Wi-Fi bridge in addition to the company's Bluetooth lock
It's a shame that it is Bluetooth and not Wifi, I would need 4 or 5 repeaters get get across my house.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:35 am to Kingpenm3
Thats only if you want to connect the lock directly to alexa with no home automation hub. No one does this. Everyone uses wifi locks with alexa currently.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:36 am to NYNolaguy1
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And as of now, you can't unlock your door with the Echo
Yes, you can. IFTTT
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:36 am to Kingpenm3
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It's a shame that it is Bluetooth and not Wifi,
you'd be changing the batteries every 2 weeks if it was
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:37 am to MrSmith
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Everyone uses wifi locks
you sure about that smith?
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:41 am to tke857
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Mankind is getting lazy.
Mankind has been has always been lazy. Every advancement in history centers around making things easier.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:45 am to NYNolaguy1
Hell no.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:47 am to slackster
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Mankind is getting lazy.
Mankind has been has always been lazy. Every advancement in history centers around making things easier.
alright i'll bite.
yes i have 3 schlage connect smart locks connected to a smart hub.
no, its not a necessity.
yes, it makes my life easier because there are 6 people in my house (19mo, 8, 15, 18, 32
and 50) people come and go all hours of the day but at 10:45 at night, all my exterior doors are locked automatically no matter what.
during the day i'm not worried about locking them. (a) it kills your battery to constantly lock the doors behind kids who don't remember and (b) i have 2 big dogs that will not anyone come remotely close to our house without going apeshit.
no its not a necessity, but if i'm posted up with the wife in bed at 10pm watching a movie i dont want to go upstairs & downstairs checking door locks before falling asleep.
if we are all truly out of the house (like once school starts) i can remotely unlock it for a contractor or provide them with a temporary code so they can get in and out and i have a record of when they entered the house & when they left.
so there's no downside. schlage is the rockstar of automatic locks and their camelot touchscreen deadbolts are a technological marvel and the one time i had one mess up, they sent me *TWO* in the mail for free.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:48 am to CAD703X
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so you wouldn't want to automatically unlock the door upon arriving home using geofencing if you have your hands full and dont want to fuss with it?
Totally irrelevent. This app doesn't unlock doors. It only locks them.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:50 am to NYNolaguy1
Our household is all-in into the Apple Ecosystem. No Alexa enabled systems for us. Only Apple Home Kit compatible devices for our home.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:51 am to NYNolaguy1
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I vote no. If you can lock the door, someone else can unlock it.
Right because no one can get passed a standard dead bolt lock.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:52 am to Peazey
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Totally irrelevent. This app doesn't unlock doors. It only locks them.
mine does
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:53 am to Street Hawk
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Only Apple Home Kit compatible devices for our home.
thats a pretty short and expensive list. zwave and zwave+ laugh at apple being too snotty to include the universal ISO standard.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:53 am to CAD703X
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alright i'll bite.
There was no bait. It is a fact. From the beginning of time to the end of time, man has and will always look for the easiest, most efficient way to get things done.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:53 am to MrSmith
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No one said they need this.
This is not instead of.
Therefore it is not
Ok, Captain Semantics. What use is it if it is easier just to turn the nob when you walk through the door rather than access the app.
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Therefore it is not
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making things more complicated
If using the app is more complicated than not using the app then using it makes things more complicated.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:58 am to Peazey
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Totally irrelevent. This app doesn't unlock doors. It only locks them.
There's about a half dozen that do so I'm not seeing the irrelevance.
This post was edited on 7/28/16 at 11:58 am
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:59 am to Peazey
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If using the app is more complicated than not using the app then using it makes things more complicated.
That's where smart part comes in, geofence and your phone stays in your pocket the whole time.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 12:00 pm to NYNolaguy1
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I vote no. If you can lock the door, someone else can unlock it.
it's a lot easier to break a window than hack alexa.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 12:01 pm to junkfunky
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There's about a half dozen that do so I'm not seeing the irrelevance.
with android tasker and an 'unlock' shortcut you can do pretty much anything you want.
alexa dumbs this down for the masses because they dont want to get sued because a burglar was standing outside and yelled "alexa unlock my front door"
This post was edited on 7/28/16 at 12:02 pm
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