Yale Keyed Deadbolt Smart Lock with Google Matter, Matte Black, YRD510-MT1-BLK

Im designing my own smart home devuce software and wanted a good smart lock with matter to control in my software. This Yale lock did the trick. It was very easy to connect to and control the Yale firmware with my own Matter controller. and no, that doesnt meant is isnt secure it just means Yale thankfully recognizes that people may want to control this lock outaide of the Yale app. You still need the Matter information for the specific lock that you purchase, in order to connect to it. But with that, controlling it was seamless. I can assign users and PIN codes from within my software. I liked this lock so much, I bought a second one.

Works well and looks great. Install went well when I slowed down to read instructions

I have tried other pushbutton locks, but they were always hard to program. This was so simple and it works so well with just an Apple app. I did not need to buy google nest.

You need to include some written instructions on how to program the unit. The install instructions were great, but no or should say really good instructions on how to program.

Bought this a year ago and it was great. Recently it stopped working online and then while resetting it messes up the password and now I can't use it at all.

Given that this is a matter device, I expected it to integrate seamlessly into my smart home, but it does not. It does not work well with home assistant at all, requiring that you enter the passcode any time you try to unlock remotely meaning it will be difficult to use for automations. Even in Google home, the ability to create automations is mediocre at best. Despite having door sense technology, there is no way to have it automatically lock when the door closes, only automatically locking after a set period of time. There is apparently no way to return the lock after installing it so buyer beware. The lock itself seems otherwise solid and the number pad works fine which is the only reason I couldn't give it one star.

Unfortunately, I have to score this Lock the lowest available score. This lock is advertised as a matter lock that is designed for Google Home. For your information I have a 8 GB connection and Google fiber. I also operate my Home platform through Google Home. I've had over 150 devices connected to this for the past two years and utilize ubiquity unify APs throughout my home. All that said it would not connect via matter to my Google home. It became a brick in the door without any smart home, functionality or ability to create passcodes. When I contacted Yale they informed me that they did not know why the lock would not work with my matter device.I could not return it and was forced to use a different Lock. Yale assure lock 2. In process this took over two weeks and I'm still not reimbursed from their issue. This should never have been advertised as a Lock for Google home.

When I try to use the Yale app, it said this lock is designed for Google home/matter. Great. I set it up in Google home and when I try to change settings such as "auto lock" it endlessly fais saying "Failed to change settings". When I realized that Goole/Matter don't offer all the same options as the Yale app I realized I wanted a different lock, as this one is less capable than my last one. I tried to return right away and they denied me because they don't return locks that are opened. Never shopping Yale again with those practices.

It will not connect to my Internet on I can't seem to get any help with the install.

The supervisors and team only want to sell you their products and after few months I called to fix the sound issue and they remotely deactivated my lock . Now they asking to buy a new one. This is not a right and fair business. People should know them.