Keyless Front Door Locks / Cameras

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: It a fan of the keyless locks. I’ve had the battery go dead on me when I tried to enter late at night on a cold day.

Oh. Gosh. Ok. Hadn't thought of that.

Our keyless lock starts beeping with a special beep when you need to change the batteries. Ours does this for about a month. You'd have to work hard to ignore the warning signs. Also, we have keyless entry on front and back doors so if we got locked out of one we'd just go to the other.

[Anonymous]

Both next door neighbor and I have keyless front door locks. We also have each other's house keys and codes in case someone gets locked out (hasn't happened yet over a few years). No one's going into the other's house unsolicited.

The batteries are unlikely to go bad at the same time.

Just change them once a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: It a fan of the keyless locks. I’ve had the battery go dead on me when I tried to enter late at night on a cold day.

Oh. Gosh. Ok. Hadn't thought of that.

Our keyless lock starts beeping with a special beep when you need to change the batteries. Ours does this for about a month. You'd have to work hard to ignore the warning signs. Also, we have keyless entry on front and back doors so if we got locked out of one we'd just go to the other.

Also many models have a battery bypass on the front where you can touch a 9V battery to it and provide enough power for you to unlock it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can be hacked in under 3 seconds.

Yup. Not to mention monitored by others.
People love new tech and are easily swayed by marketing gimmicks.

If someone really wants to get into your house, they aren't going to bother hacking your keypad. They'll throw a brick through a window.

[Anonymous]

This is being sold as a lock when it's really just stealing your data and selling it to the highest bidder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can be hacked in under 3 seconds.

Yup. Not to mention monitored by others.
People love new tech and are easily swayed by marketing gimmicks.

If someone really wants to get into your house, they aren't going to bother hacking your keypad. They'll throw a brick through a window.

They won't even do this. They'll just check your windows and doors, and if you haven't locked them all, they'll come in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can be hacked in under 3 seconds.

Yup. Not to mention monitored by others.
People love new tech and are easily swayed by marketing gimmicks.

If someone really wants to get into your house, they aren't going to bother hacking your keypad. They'll throw a brick through a window.

Or they might shout "Alexa unlock the door."

To be fair, I think all the major apps no longer support voice unlocking.

[Anonymous]

We have a low-tech Schlage. Its not smart phone or blue-tooth or wi-fi enabled. Its just a key pad and it is awesome! Very simple but effective. It also has a slot for a key which we keep hidden outside should the battery ever die suddenly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can be hacked in under 3 seconds.

Yup. Not to mention monitored by others.
People love new tech and are easily swayed by marketing gimmicks.

If someone really wants to get into your house, they aren't going to bother hacking your keypad. They'll throw a brick through a window.

True. Locks are mostly useless when you have unbarred windows.

Even barred windows can be cut in a couple mins with a torch or battery saw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is being sold as a lock when it's really just stealing your data and selling it to the highest bidder.

That too.
Even appliances and light bulbs now have microphones to record everything within range and send it to God knows who.

[Anonymous]

My yale one is trash sometimes it doesn't want to work even when the battery is fine. I do not trust it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a low-tech Schlage. Its not smart phone or blue-tooth or wi-fi enabled. Its just a key pad and it is awesome! Very simple but effective. It also has a slot for a key which we keep hidden outside should the battery ever die suddenly.

Same here. I highly recommend. I’ve had mine for about 4 years and haven’t had to change the battery yet, though I have put it on my list of things to do. Mine has the ability to connect a good battery to it if you ever need to.