This annoys me greatly.

When I built my house I went full home automation. At the time I was telling my friends about how important it was not to have cloud dependancy, and how I was doing everything local.

I use KNX as the main backbone and Home Assistant for control.

And everything was local with the one exception of my Kevo door lock. At the time I built, there just wasn’t a perfect local only solution.

I hadn’t planned properly for a way to integrate a wired in solution into the joinary around the door due to the particular circumstances of where it was, so I needed something wireless, and nothing wireless was local only at the time.

What pisses me off is that it’s the one thing I compromised on, and it’s the one thing that bit me.

Now I have very little notice to find a replacement with the same features.

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molticrystal 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe cut the wires from the current circuit board(s) and throw in a ESP32 with wifi and bluetooth and driver board for the servos.

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xmprt 4 days ago | parent [-]

My house lock is probably the one place where I'm not prepared to compromise security with a DIY solution. Not talking about the software security (in fact open source solutions are probably more secure) but literally the hardware and build quality of any DIY work.

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molticrystal 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think you'll find it not as comprising as you believe, and might be a fun project.

Since you'll likely be scrapping it in some fashion, might want to try disassembling it first to see what would need to be done.

If you are not handy with electronics, there is also a chance their will be some work around the 3rd party server at some point, as in the protocol and such being deciphered, or a custom firmware you can build and flash.

If you do get it working, it would make a great spare.

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dylan604 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

that's kind of funny though as any lock can be picked. if someone wants into your house, most of the time they will not enter the locked front door. they'll find a window in the back that is easier to open with whatever they find in your back yard. they might exit the front door on their way out though. also, most locks are easily picked by someone with practice

	▲	542354234235 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If memory serves, something like 2% of break ins use "lock picking" which includes shimming a sliding door, a very low skill attack. Criminals just don't use high skill attacks to burgle homes. Probably a combination of most crimes being opportunistic, most criminals doing them being low skilled themselves, and people like us not being rich enough to move into the level of being targeted by the minuscule percent of high skill burglars.
	▲	datadrivenangel 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And any glass windows are an entry point if they're willing to break the window.

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sixothree 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My Schlage uses a numeric entry and has no connectivity whatsoever. I love everything about it.

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numbsafari 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Don’t buy anything from Assa Abloy, local or not.

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rebuilder 4 days ago | parent [-]

As someone living in a country where Abloy locks are used everywhere, I’m interested to hear what’s wrong with them

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privatelypublic 4 days ago | parent [-]

One of their digital lock designs had a rather cough Pleasing vulnerability. But other than that it's vendor lock-in (heh), and lack of availability in the US.

With most so called locksmiths being drillsmiths in the US, not being able to clone DD and dimple keys.

Puck one. Or maybe the OP is just bitter they can't pick it for their next "belt" after getting chuffed with themselves picking average american garbage.

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diftraku 4 days ago | parent [-]

> One of their digital lock designs had a rather cough Pleasing vulnerability.

I'm assuming you're referring to the VingCard vulnerability from 2018? (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43896360)

Digital locks aside, this is more applicable to any lock you buy and rely on (substitute US with your local region):

> lack of availability in the US

I wouldn't go out of my way to find something like Schlage here, when Abloy (Assa Abloy) locks are available in abundance with locksmiths able to duplicate usually all the key variants.

	▲	privatelypublic 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, there was a vending machine smart lock that if you hitachi'd it right it'd unlock. And, I phrased it wrong: most people expect to be able to walk into lowes and clone a key. And while it seems assa has been on a buying spree since I last looked at them, I do not associate them with anything you'd be able to find at big box store. When I think assa abloy I think "you better have the key card or you're SOL."
	▲	anilakar 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As a European, most of the products mentioned in the linked article and this discussion are from brands I've never associated with Assa Abloy in the first place.