Welcome to the forum @rb765. sorry to hear of the troubles you are having. I have two of these safes and am not experiencing the need to slam the door shut whenever I close it, I lightly close the lid and it latches, so maybe a call to support for that reason.
When you scan your finger are you scanning your finger at all different angles and locations during the 8 different scan requests? I noticed that if you place your finger on the scanner for the most part in the “same spot” or just tapping the reader 8 times quickly the reader is less likely to identify the finger print when complete than if you move the position of your finger at different angles with each scan.
Try rescanning with the above method and see if you get better results. But yes if you are having a hard time closing the lid, I would give support a call for a possible warranty replacement.
This is faulty logic. The safest thing to do is to not have a gun at home. Period. And to claim that by advocating for this approach I’ve waded into politics and need my posts to be censored is just as pathetic. I’m not questioning your rights. [mod edit] We don’t all agree that gun safes promote safety.
For those that choose not to take the safest path using a safe it the next best thing.
I guess you dont drive or ride since the safest way to not be in a car accident is not to get in a car. If you do I hope you use the safety belts.
I’m perfectly willing to let the hackers (let’s say a government - maybe ours, maybe China?) see my boring Wyze videos. I’m not willing to risk letting them “hack” into my gun safe and potentially keep me from opening. Just sayn’.
This safe is too small to be practical in my opinion. Most burglars still steal the safe if it’s carryable with their hands and figure out how to crack it open it later. This is the common scenario with home and motl safes under 40lb, at least arm’s length.
Have friends/family in law enforcement that have seen it happen way too many times.
Any safe under 600lbs that is not bolted down is fair game for burglars. Most safes are only 12-16guage steel, so they can be easily defeated with an angle grinder. This lockbox should be bolted to a heavy piece of furniture and this does not take the place of a real safe.
Does is store the list of people accessing the safe and then send it to the phone once it is within Bluetooth range. For example: I have left the house and someone opens the safe, since there is no connection via WiFi I will not be alerted but will I still be alerted when I return within Bluetooth range or will I be unaware that the safe was opened?
Honestly, I have doubts that Wyze products are “independent designs”. Likely, they just get a base desogm. from a Chinese manufacturer, and tweak them a little. They have far too many products for such a short period of time. I’m an electrical engineer working at a well known tech company, and we have a dozen people, just doing test, on one specific part, of one design. They would need thousands of employees to crank out this many “independent designs”, in just a few years. They barely have 200 employees.
Nothing wrong with operating that way, if they are, just saying…
You really think China is making these so they can sneak in and take your single handgun?
These type of safes are for 2 purposes, ONLY, in my view.
Keep small children from getting in
Satisfying some local laws on storage.
That’s really all that is needed. Me. I keep mine on my person 24/7, except at work. I don’t need the safe. But it might be nice to hold and hide some cash, where speed isn’t critical. Oh wait, I have my 1000 pound safe for that.
You know how “Forged in Fire” makes knives out of random pieces of steel. Maybe they could have a show that shows knifesmiths making knives out of guns.
Why does everything in the world upset someone? I so sick of the childish bull crap. If you don’t like something and want to leave. I case you’ll hate my pencil case too since I could hurt someone very badly with them.
The lock saves the data, then when you reconnect via Bluetooth it will update the history.
Below was tested with Bluetooth off, when I turned Bluetooth back on the Safe reconnected and the actions populated, including the failed attempts alarm.
I thought of how Wyze could push alarm alerts for this safe to your phone even if you’re not within Bluetooth range:
Wyze should add a camera AI sound detection that listens for the Safe alarm to go off and then pushes an alert to your phone from anywhere if it detects the alarm.
Then even if you are away from home and the safe doesn’t have WiFi access, you can still get a notification that the Safe alarm went off all through the camera.
I guess even if Wyze doesn’t make this available platform-wide, their new Wyze Anything Recognition technology they are working on for a future release could possibly be trained to do this…teach it to recognize the safe alarm going off and send you an alert when it does. That’s not a bad idea for someone to do a test run with this for.
