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Yale and Kevo smart locks

Locks · Security

Partly worksCloud

1 report: 1 says it partly works.

Reported on r/homeassistant.

What people report

IntegrationIn Home AssistantIn Apple HomeWhat they saidSource
Not namedPartly works CloudSlow to unlock and relied on cloud
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I’ve had four different smart locks. Yale, Kevo, Danalock and Airbnk. My learning was: There are no perfect smart locks available. Each one is a compromise. The Yale and Kevo were slow to unlock and relied on the cloud. The Danalock was really badly supported by the manufacturer and the HomeKit upgrades killed it. All of them were a pain to install. So I decided to go for a generic Chinese lock that would allow me to isolate it from any cloud and have it fully under my control. It is zigbee and Bluetooth but at the moment it is not supported by Home Assistant só I made a Bluetooth proxy for …

Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23.

Reddit comment · 2024-05

Each row is one report from a GitHub thread, an integration’s docs, or r/homeassistant. Check the date and the linked source before you buy.

In ReReHome

Once Home Assistant’s HomeKit Bridge shares it, this device reaches Apple Home as a HomeKit accessory behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls it like any other.

Identifiers

BrandYale
CategoryLocks