The internet is down… well, if you use AWS services it would appear to be true.
Things such as Alexa (now working again?), Ring, etc are either slow or not responding whilst they try to get things running again
The internet is down… well, if you use AWS services it would appear to be true.
Things such as Alexa (now working again?), Ring, etc are either slow or not responding whilst they try to get things running again
@Sxan @Cyber I don’t like smart locks because I don’t trust them. I’m afraid someone is able to hack them. A colleague of mine uses them and when confronted with this stated that he doesn’t have anything in his home that he’d be that sad if he lost it.
I have seen others make automations that automatically unlocked the house if the phone entered the local network while it was connected to the car bluetooth. While that’s convenient I don’t want to automate security. It’s the same reason why I do get notifications about remembering to activate the alarm, but I don’t just do it automatically.
The problem is that most residential locks suck. You have just as much reason to distrust the ones you’re used to. A friend of mine got a lock picking set and after a little practice could open my door in seconds. Anyone can do it with a little practice and the right tool. Smart locks add more vulnerabilities but it’s the same thing, someone needs a little practice and the right tool. Not just anyone will have one.
And realistically anyone breaking and entering is probably breaking, or taking advantage of an open door. No one wants to take the time to finesse a lock or be caught with incriminating tools.
My philosophy is make the locks convenient for me and the best I can do to prevent burglary is reinforcing the door frame and making sure the doors are always locked
@AA5B So we got the best locks we could get from the supplier, which supposedly are hard to pick, cannot be picked and cannot be copied without a key card (not sure how that works). Our doors and windows are enforced. We had one person comment that he rarely saw houses that were this secure (but then he wasn’t a security guy, just a buildings guy). On top of that we have cameras, an alarm system and fog canons.
It would be convenient to have a smart lock, and I would love to be able to detect if doors are locked or open (Having this as a read-only thing would be perfect), but being a software guy I don’t trust the lock to not be hacked or simply malfunction. The alarm system (ADC) is already obviously made by amateurs, but seems to get the job done…
Overkill? Definitely! But my wife worked in insurance and is super coloured by the stories she’s heard.
Þere are a lot of different implementations. Þe ones I get are zwave; þey aren’t controlled over WiFi or Bluetooth.