My standard-setback steel door is already bored for a smart lock (Schlage, which came with convertible deadbolt) but not for a recessed setback for the rectangular faceplate that’s at the front of the deadbolt. Steel doors can’t be chiseled, and cutting a recess, if even possible, is highly impractical.
The options, if any, are either to remove the non-removable rectangular faceplate (Dremel?). I’d prefer not to try. Or to find a third-party replacement deadbolt and hope the tailpiece slot is precisely identical in shape and location.
Wyze tech support offered no solutions.
If anyone knows of a specific third-party deadbolt (e.g. a multi-convertible one) which has been proven to work for this, I’d really appreciate knowing what make and model it is. Or if anyone’s removed the faceplate, how and how did it go?
I read your first post in another topic, and the one related post I recall seeing about this is Wyze Lock Bolt - convert from Square Latch faceplate to Drive-In Latch?, but I don’t know if the user who posted that ever found a solution, and I don’t know what the tail piece for Lock Bolt (the product noted in that other topic) looks like. I have Lock Bolt v2 and Palm Lock, and both of those use a flat tailpiece, so I wonder if you could find a replacement latch that would mate with Palm Lock’s tailpiece and allow you to use it with that door.
Whether you can find a suitable latch or not, I do think offering a drive-in latch as an accessory or as a conversion option (like maybe they should just include a convertible latch, like some manufacturers do) would be good idea. I also wonder about the possibility of swapping Palm Lock’s (or Lock Bolt v2’s) tailpiece to work with an existing latch, like if you already have a working deadbolt latch installed in a metal door, but I haven’t tried disassembling one of these locks to see how difficult that might be.
