That’s fair. I can store like 20 codes or something, so I just keep one extra in there then rotate it after whoever I had to give it to is done with needing it.

I live on a really busy street in a city, so I’m really not worried about someone breaking a window to get inside. Sure there’s a nonzero chance a methie might smash a window, but around here it’s mostly just testing car door handles and maybe smashing the car window if there’s a visible wallet or pill bottle or something.

Walking up to my door and doing a replay attack, or sending a master password to the lock takes seconds and doesn’t look any more suspicious than a resident entering the house. This talk is from 2016, but I doubt things have gotten significantly better, and I don’t want to be replacing my door lock, or even worrying about updating firmware, whenever something like this is found (Picking BLE Locks - Anthony Rose & Ben Ramsey).

But yeah, I’m not saying anyone’s an idiot for using a smart lock or anything, odds are it will never matter either way.

Yo do you write for Black Mirror?

Like you want to have a dumb lock but a smart sensor that tells you if the deadbolt is locked or open?

I remember reading some blog somewhere about a person who rigged up a sensor to alert them if their mailbox had been opened or not, you could probably design something to do similar. Idk maybe a magnetic thing to detect the bolt itself, or something to detect on the position of the latch on the interior of the door?

Found this after a quick search, sorry for it being Reddit and the video of the working solution being uploaded to gfycat.

Dumb Deadbolt Lock Detection - Reddit

The ones I saw from Cisa, aside from reporting the status, could automatically lock every time you closed them

HomeAssistant can do this. Set an automation when you leave your home zone, if door is unlocked notify you.

If you have a smart lock, you can even close it. You should get cameras and an alarm system first, though.

Here in Italy shutter covers are common, I have those and awnings, both can be connected to any sort of smart 2-way switch. I use BTicino for the shutters and Shelly 2PMs for the awnings

There are Somfry blind controllers with small solar panels that face outwards on the motor housing. No plug required.

I would assume those would be zigbee or z-wave or something. What does it use?

Damn that sucks. I lived in an apartment and wound up rigging up an arduino to pull the chain on these three massive window shades in my apartment, they were seriously like 20 foot tall windows. This was back in 2015 or so, so I didn’t even bother trying to find anything off the shelf.

I love your username btw.

Shit. I am a fossil.

Build your own! All you need is an esp32 or pi pico, stepper motor, and driver.

That's next on my list of projects after I finish my smart microchip keyed pet feeding stalls.