Monitor door lock status

I am a long way from automating door locks, especially given recent events of door locks failing after a bad firmware update.

What I would really like to do is to be able to see in Indigo, whether doors are locked or not.

Preferably using zwave or something I can use a plugin for.

Some way of detecting a bolt/latch has been thrown (needs to support eurolocks)

Any ideas?

What locks you got?

My ZWave Lock Manager plugin supports most Zwave door locks for this purpose.


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Nothing HA

4 eurolocks and a normal mortise lock on the internal garage door

I am just not comfortable putting HA door locks yet.

I’d just like to find a way to detect that the doors are all locked or not.

Ie at bed time or just going out.

[jay (support)]

Don't know where the actual description is here on the forums, but I believe someone managed to shoehorn some kind of door sensor into the hole where the deadbolt goes so they could know when it's engaged (someone that was using the MorningLinc I believe which doesn't report state).

[MODERATOR NOTE] moved to a more appropriate forum.

Yeah, I read something like that somewhere - I was thinking it was Zwave, but maybe there's both.

Some sort of contact/button press within the deadbolt hole is going to be the only non-HA way of doing it I think.


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Yeah that’s the way I’ve done it with the locks in my house that I didn’t automate. Except I did them via my alarm panel so that I couldn’t set the alarm if I’d accidentally left them unlocked!

Way out if my comfort zone.

But doesn't appear to be an off the shelf solution, surprisingly.

So maybe something like a Fibaro ZWave Univeral Sensor maybe useful.

If I can come up with using it two sensors to detect

A. If door is open or closed
B. If door is locked or unlocked

Now to see if that is possible

Mike

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I have done this with insteon. Here is the post....about 5 or 6 posts into it, it discusses what you're attempting with deadbolts. No, i haven't done it with z-wave. You need a button sensor.

Problem you will have with Fibaro Universal sensor is that it requires power (it will burn through batteries if you consider that an alternative)

You could use the Fibaro Door Sensor, however, although you can use the Reed and Binary input, I recall they are classed as 'one' action event - So for Door Close AND Locked thats two signals. If you are creative you might be able to use the 'Tamper' in order to report the Second Event (if it has a tamper function that is) via a little soldering

Just a thought

Vangelis

Many thanks to all.

I need to look into this a lot more.

It looks like it will be something I build into our next house or wait until my comfort level increases with HA door locks.

Given how much soldering I have recently done putting up LED strip lighting around the house, I have more confidence to try something using a Rasberry PI or Ardino.

Not a priority yet.

Again, many thanks to everyone who contributed here.

Mike