Lock V2 Lock After Hours Settings

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@mikeylynds

My question is if I turn off autolock but keep lock after hours set to 9pm and somebody leaves at 10pm, does it auto lock again.

No. This would not be my expectation given the current options in the app, and this is not how it works in my testing. Auto-Lock has no schedule within Lock Bolt v2 and can’t even be scheduled (enabled/disabled) in Automations. Once the Lock Bolt v2 locks at the appointed Lock After Hours time (if that’s enabled), it’s done automatically locking until its next appointed time (e.g., if you’re doing it daily then it would automatically lock again 24 hours later) unless you’re doing something else to trigger it. If you have Auto-Lock turned off, then it’s…off. I don’t believe these two features have any direct bearing on one another.

What do you experience when you test this?

@mikeylynds

I have the auto lock set to 9pm.

I don’t think this is possible. I imagine that you meant that you have Lock After Hours set for 9:00 p.m., so that’s how I answered the question. If I misinterpreted your intent, then please let me know.

@mikeylynds

This was a feature on the V1

I don’t have any hands-on experience with Lock Bolt v1, but if that device allowed the Auto-Lock feature to be scheduled, then omitting the scheduling component from Lock Bolt v2 (and other new locks) seems like an unfortunate oversight. I think what you’re talking about has been requested in a Wishlist topic for Palm Lock. Maybe that topic should be updated to include Lock Bolt v2:

Wyze Palm Lock Auto Lock Feature add

Would love to see the addtion to the Auto-Lock setting for Wyze Palm Lock that would allow auto-locking limited to a given period of time: Example: Auto-lock in 2 minutes but only between 7:00am and 10:00am. Thanks!

As with any Wishlist topic, you can visit that one to click or tap the Vote button above the initial post and share your ideas and use cases in the comments to show your support for the product and feature request/suggestions that are important to you.

Since you’re using such a long timeout for your Auto-Lock setting, you could potentially create your own work-around for this with Schedule Automations, but it’d be a bunch of Automations:

• • DO
    • Lock Bolt v2
      • Lock
  • WHEN
    • Start Time 9:00 PM
• • DO
    • Lock Bolt v2
      • Lock
  • WHEN
    • Start Time 9:15 PM
• • DO
    • Lock Bolt v2
      • Lock
  • WHEN
    • Start Time 9:30 PM
• etc., until you get to your 9:00 a.m. end time…

That would get really tedious, though. If you have a spare Wyze Plug, Plug Outdoor, or Bulb Color (probably other Bulbs would work, but I have only Bulb Colors), then you could use one of those as a logical switch (and if it’s a Bulb Color, also as an accessory lock state indicator) in a simpler Automations scheme with only two Device & Service Trigger Automations:

1. • IF
     • Lock Bolt v2
       • Unlocks
   • DO
     • Bulb Color
       • Turn on
       • Blink for 5 seconds ff0000 (red)
       • Set color selection ff0000 (red)
   • WHEN
     • Start Time 9:00 PM
     • End Time 9:00 AM
2. • IF
     • Bulb Color
       • Has been on for 00:15:00
   • DO
     • Lock Bolt v2
       • Lock
     • Bulb Color
       • Turn Off
   • WHEN
     • Start Time 9:00 PM
     • End Time 9:00 AM

I haven’t tested this particular scenario, but I would expect it to work.