I was accidentally locked out of home again, and I had to call a professional to open the lock.

But if someone was home, they could have just turned the knob of the door from inside. There’s a device that can do that? It needs to do 3 full turns and it requires a bit of force to do that (armored door with iron bars that slide in every direction, so it has a big inertia to start)

I saw a ready solution on a store, the iseo x1r, but that costs 1000 euro + another 200 for the gateway (not mandatory but otherwise it uses proprietary Bluetooth protocol and so it can’t talk with HA

  • Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@c.im
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    4 days ago

    @Moonrise2473 I’ve locked myself out of houses twice.

    (1) My grandma’s house. I was able to open the kitchen window from the outside and got in that way. But eventually I realised that she would be unhappy if she knew it was that easy to break in, so I locked myself out again before she got home.

    (2) My own house. This time it had to be a bedroom window, and the neighbour provided a ladder, and when I didn’t fancy climbing up it the neighbour also provided a lad to climb in.

    Neither of these would have worked with modern windows, much too secure. We really *must* get round to leaving a key with a friend or neighbour, particularly in these pandemic days when we don’t go to offices or shops any more and no longer carry keys with us all day every day as a matter of course.