I’m considering installing smart locks on my house’s exterior doors. I’m currently looking at the Lockin Veno Solar Face or the Lockly Visage Zeno.
My lifestyle is to always have the doors locked, and we unlock them when we go in or out, and then we re-lock the door behind us.
It seems that smart locks only “smart unlock” the door from the outside, and from the inside you must manually unlock it. I find that annoying and of such an insignificant increase in convenience over my current manual locks that is not worth it.
I suspect that locks that support ultra wide bandwidth (sense the presence of your phone/watch) would unlock from the inside a well as the outside, but I don’t want UWB.
Does anyone have experience with smart locks? Do any of them automate unlocking from inside as well as outside?
I have no experience with smart locks but I work in IT and would never want anything smart for something essential I need to to rely on. Especially not if it’s provided by a for profit company.
I’d like open source hardware and software smart locks, but I’m not technical enough to make one or even install/configure/maintain one if I could find one.
I won’t get one that requires cloud connectivity, but I think I have to get one that’s made/sold by a for profit company.