the Wyze lock is not necessarily going to fit all of your smart homes even though
it is only a $100 smart lock today I'm going to tell you why it's going to fit
a certain person at a certain time hello Automators, thanks for tuning in again
I'm Brian from automate your life and today I'm going to take the frustration
out of automation by helping you save time and money by making sure this is
the right product for you we're going to go through a full review of the Wyze lock
right now this is definitely different than a normal smart lock that you see on
the market and what I mean by that is what you get in the box is a little bit
different than your average smart lock and you're not going to get any of the
internal components that you might be used to with your other smart door locks
so you're not replacing the core you're not replacing the outer component of
your door either so your existing key is going to work in that door going forward
or still when you have the Wyze lock on and because of this the Wyze lock is
intended to work on almost every door out there now there are going to be some
specific doors that it won't work on and there's going to be some specific
situations that it won't fit so you still need to take measurements and you
still need to check out what your door lock is like but you're not replacing
everything so the installation actually becomes very simple one thing I should
say though is as I release this review of the Wyze door lock you cannot get the
Wyze door lock keypad and this is a very important component and I will explain
as we go forward that this is something that I believe is necessary for you to
have with the Wyze lock and this is one of those things that really will only
fit certain people what the Wyze door lock end its accessory keypad do
together is they become a smart door lock in your home but they can also open
enclose from a number of different sources so if you have that keypad it
becomes a combination keypad and you can lock the door or lock the lock from the
outside as well you can open and close it with an
application get note of occasions from that application and you
can also open it and close it with Amazon Alexa voice assistant right now
there's no Google Assistant integration right now but you can do this with
Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and their normal control method for unlocking
smart locks the auto unlock and lotto lock functions are very interesting to
have on a smart door lock as well but we will talk more about these as I go
through my likes and dislikes the first thing I do like was the ease of
installation and this is an incredibly easy door lock to install there is very
little to do you don't have to replace those inner components or that outer
door lock component without that it becomes really easy and the ability to
put this over or on most doors was very simply laid out in the application as
well now I do have unboxing and setup videos on our tutorial channel so go
ahead and check those out at the end of this video or you can click over on a
card rate now links are all over this description and this video it does seem
as though Wyze has also cleared up their issues where if your phone is on your 5
gigahertz Wi-Fi network then you can't set up their products but their gateway
made this very simple it did not require me to get over on the 2.4 gigahertz
network which I was prepared to do but my phone just seamlessly went through
the setup process for that gateway and that becomes the hub for everything to
communicate to the Wyze lock itself is light yet sturdy small form-factor to so
that helps it to fit in a lot of situations it doesn't look out of place
even with replacing a very small existing door lock a manual turn there
so it really looks very nice too so I like all of the aesthetics and the look
and feel of the Wyze door lock I do like the interfaces for control there's a
number of different interfaces and this is where the keypad becomes really
important again so the keypad gives you that ability from the outside to lock
and unlock with a key code and then you can
create those key codes that can be shared either on a permanent basis or a
temporary basis and or a one-time basis I mean that is great functionality there
for organizing your life you can let repair people into your home with a
one-time code that's only going to work for that one day so really good thought
there I think and I also like the Auto unlock and auto lock functions although
again we will talk about those a little bit later the interface in the app is
very good Wyze has done a good job modifying their application to accept
all of this - with anything from Wyze you do have to talk about the
reliability of them and their cloud service now I have found the overall
service behind this to be very reliable and there's a caveat coming but in
general I haven't had this door lock fail I haven't had it not operate when
it's supposed to I haven't even had I know there's a few people out there
having issues with it becoming miscalibrated or or not calibrated any
longer I haven't had those issues you you basically want to put it on a place
that is going to get used and that won't happen to you so you know it's been very
reliable for me since I've installed it which I'm a couple of weeks into at this
point so overall I've found the reliability to be really good on the
Wyze door lock but the caveat to that is the auto unlock function now this is GPS
based and so that kind of a service is never going to be perfect guys this is
one of the problems and why the keypad becomes so important with the Wyze door
lock because what happens is I would say you know nine out of ten times the auto
unlock works fine and I've kind of learned to put my phone in a certain
place in my car to make sure that that happens but you know as I come into my
garage and I walk up to the door lock I find that it unlocks nine out of ten
times now that other time I would either have to search for a key or I would have
to use the Wyze keypad and that's the really important reason right there is
now I can type in my code and unlock the door and get in and it's no real
different than lots of other smart door locks out there and it's a lot easier
than digging out a key so without that keypad though you could be standing
there looking for your key and I mean that's the whole point or I think the
whole point to a smart door lock is it knows it's you or you can do something
quickly to get into your home and I've tried to find a workaround there simply
isn't an easy one not one that I could show you guys or it would be up on the
tutorial channel you can't get it to auto unlock with another system because
you need the Wyze service and there's really no connectivity right now for
that other than in Amazon's voice assistant and you can't unlock the door
automatically anywhere so this becomes a real barrier to success in my mind with
the Wyze door lock without that keypad and again where that keypad becomes
really important is on the flipside with the auto lock feature see I can see
people locking themselves out with this and then not having their phone or their
key or what have you and that auto lock function if you put it on immediate and
you might want to delay it a little bit so you hopefully remember you know you
put that auto lock on it locks the door and you're standing there with no keypad
you're gonna struggle getting in so that's another important component I
could just see people making these mistakes and being really frustrated
with the product without that keypad the communication methodology to me is the
worst thing about the Wyze lock and the keypad and I had to ask Wyze what was
going on between all the different components here and I'll try and explain
it to you and then explain why this is such a problem for you so if we start at
the gateway it's 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi and that's ok it adds another device to your
Wi-Fi at that frequency but that's okay let's not complain
about that just yet but the Gateway to the actual lock itself is ZigBee and
this is ZigBee that is in an enclosed system and Wyze has no plans to go and
integrate a ZigBee door lock with any other system so I can't attach it to
Samsung SmartThings or anything like that I'm stuck with in Wyze's system
communicating with that gateway now the frustrating thing with the ZigBee here
is that number one it could have been paired with other devices but we won't
be allowed and then number two you cannot control the ZigBee channel on the
Wyze door lock and I instantly lost a door sensor over a couple of days
because of ZigBee Network interference so this happened instantly to me and
this is going to happen to other people if you can't change that ZigBee channel
and then your other hub you can't change the ZigBee channel and now you have
devices next to each other you've got a problem now let's get even more
complicated in order to adjust some of the settings you need to be within range
and have Bluetooth on on your phone so not only have you opened up your door
lock to Wi-Fi security but you have also opened it up to ZigBee and Bluetooth
based wireless protocol security so we have these three different things and
the keypad has to communicate in there too so we have these three different
communication protocols all going on at the same time they all have to be there
in order for the device to be fully functional and they all have to be there
and secured all the time and so while I appreciate the magnitude of what Weis
has done by making all of these 2.4 gigahertz based communication protocols
to work together between all these components you have to look at that I
think as the biggest gap and if you have other smart home devices in your home
this becomes a bit of you need to look around and make sure that this is going
to work within it and they're just not giving you the control over something
like Zigbee here to make sure that you're not causing your self
interference the battery life is clearly going to be a problem over time with the
Wyze door locks you end up with with the keypad you get two double AA's in there
and you get four in the Wyze lock and I can see that six months is going to be a
stretch here for the Wyze door lock I think the keypad will be much longer but
six months on that you're going to be constantly changing double AA's couple of
times a year for four to six double-a batteries and that adds to your price
over time so keep that in mind the lack of integration and this is related to
that ZigBee thing but there's also just a lack of general integration right now
with this device it's really frustrating at this point I think Wyze has enough
components and devices that now I think it's time to start playing well with
others and they really aren't right now I don't include Amazon's voice assistant
integration as being really playing with others I think they need to start
opening up the platform a little more and getting it out there so do I
recommend it well the first thing is one you need that keypad for the reliability
to be at the place where you want it to be number two would I stick this on my
front door I'd probably think twice about that with the overall just the
different communication methodologies I've used this on an inner garage door
so it would take some people some work to get to that door if they got to that
door well now they can try and get through that so I think that's a better
solution or a better situation for the Wyze door lock I think it will help
number one you keep that door lock a little warmer help with the battery life
as well that's kind of you know a safer situation since it's behind a garage
door so there's a couple of reasons that I would maybe put it in that kind of a
situation of course if you have questions about your specific situation
I'd be happy to recommend to you where I see the Wyze door lock because after
that the hundred dollar price tag very good for a highly functioning highly
capable smart door lock that does integrate well with in the overall Wyze
system so that's our review of the Wyze door lock guys I hope this has helped if
you have those other leave them down below I talked about the
tutorial and for the setup video and the unboxing video both of those are up on
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