Checking the locks?

[puntloos]

Is there any technology that can tell me if all external doors and/or windows are actually locked? Would love some 'all lights green' lock status of the entire house for e.g. leaving on holiday situations.

 

(In current home I have a kitchen door that's left unlocked way too easily, but I can imagine you need pretty specialised doors or hardware to detect if it's openable from outside?)

[Onoff]

20 minutes ago, puntloos said:

Is there any technology that can tell me if all external doors and/or windows are actually locked? Would love some 'all lights green' lock status of the entire house for e.g. leaving on holiday situations.

 

(In current home I have a kitchen door that's left unlocked way too easily, but I can imagine you need pretty specialised doors or hardware to detect if it's openable from outside?)

 

Nearest I can find. Would need to connect each door to your network I guess:

 

https://www.automatedhome.co.uk/reviews/led-door-lock-status-indicator-hack.html

[Onoff]

This system from the States:

 

 

[Ferdinand]

5 hours ago, puntloos said:

Is there any technology that can tell me if all external doors and/or windows are actually locked? Would love some 'all lights green' lock status of the entire house for e.g. leaving on holiday situations.

 

(In current home I have a kitchen door that's left unlocked way too easily, but I can imagine you need pretty specialised doors or hardware to detect if it's openable from outside?)

 

I can't think of something that detects the lock, unless something like the Yale digital lock setup (or similar) does it.

 

The other angle for managing the problem could be an auto-close something plus auto-locking, like a traditional night latch, but the flipside is that it is easy to be locked out.

 

If you have an autolock-on-close, then a burglar alarm type sensor could be the other half.

 

Not satisfactory, though.

 

F

 

[Temp]

If you have locks with a separate latch and lock bolt then perhaps you just need a micro switch to detect the position of the bolt and some wire? Bit fiddly to set up though. 

 

 

[puntloos]

13 hours ago, Onoff said:

This system from the States:

 

 

 

Great find - and they do have UK dealers:

https://www3.marvin.com/?page=find-a-dealer&intl=United Kingdom

 

[puntloos]

11 hours ago, Ferdinand said:

 

I can't think of something that detects the lock, unless something like the Yale digital lock setup (or similar) does it.

 

The other angle for managing the problem could be an auto-close something plus auto-locking, like a traditional night latch, but the flipside is that it is easy to be locked out.

 

If you have an autolock-on-close, then a burglar alarm type sensor could be the other half.

 

Not satisfactory, though.

 

F

 

 

Newbie question: how do doors typically come together anyway - are they sold all-in-one or can you get a door separately from the glass, separate from the frame, and in particular separate from the knob

I ask because perhaps if you can just buy a 'smart knob' from the internets and plumb it into any door you like?