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We've gone through a bunch (including the Igloohome locks mentioned in the post) and landed on Yale's Assure line, specifically the YRD216 model with a physical keypad (not the touchscreen). Deployed in 100s of homes now (we're also property managers) with really no issue. We use Z-Wave to control but their modular system allows for Zigbee as well.

I would avoid the Schlage "Smart Deadbolt" model. At least when it comes to remote control they're pretty awful. (They're also hideous imo)

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I agree 110% with this! The touchscreens confuse new people not used to it. As far as Schlage, yeah... let's just say there's a few folks in the Home Assistant community (and us too) who are not super impressed with their protocol implementation.

btw which z-wave controller do you guys use for the Assure?

We're using Smartthings, specifically the old graph API that gives somewhat easy programmatic access. Very interested in what yall are doing with Seam (we spoke for a little bit at the virtual event YC had earlier this year). With Samsung I'm always worried some new VP is going to going to get shuffled in and decide that Smartthings has had its day in the sun.

Yes I remember our convo! Also, i really don't like to be the bearer of bad news, but I was talking to their Venture team and unfortunately that ship has already sailed. They've sold the hardware business to Aeotek and are progressively scaling down the team :(

Ping me at sy@getseam.com and lets see if I can get you going with some beta units.

lol, no. We're hiring as fast as we can right now for software devs: https://smartthings.pinpointhq.com/

ah! I stand corrected. I swear I had two calls in the last 3-4 months with some Samsung Next folks where it was like, "yeah, we're kind of outta this game."

Probably just a miscommunication, we definitely seem to have gotten completely out of hardware (I wouldn't really know, I was never really involved in any of the hardware side of things), but the software side of things is going stronger than ever.

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