Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Locked out of my August smart lock (sorta)

A deliberately salacious headline.  So this morning I had this sneaking suspicion that I forgot to lock the door.  No problem!  I bought a smart lock just to solve this problem!  Open the app, click the wifi button and this is what I see.



GAH! the wifi connect has failed again!  Commute back home from work and sure enough, the red light is blinking.  This is the 3rd time the remote connect has let me down.  It's to the point now where I don't trust it and almost wish I'd never gotten it.

The app needs an upgrade.  It should give me a warning when the WiFI can't phone home.  It should also restart itself if it can't phone home after X hours, where X is a configurable number.  I've sent my suggestions via their support channel, we'll see what they say.

Overall, I'm not as happy as I could be with this setup.  When it works, it's brilliant, but the large size of the nob, the cover falling off when smaller hands try to turn it and now with the issues with the wifi connect cropping up it's harder and harder to recommend this.