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.
These brands come and go, so the link might be dead in the near future. But the important part, regardless of brand, is that the slot on the deadbolt which receives the tailpiece must be cross-shaped (the “plus sign” in the photo below) to accept the bump on the Wyze Palm Lock tailpiece… not a flat-shaped slot.
I wondered about that and if you’d be able to find a third-party latch replacement that had a drive-in option and would work with the Palm Lock tailpiece. (I believe Lock Bolt v2 has the same tailpiece.)
In any case, I’m glad that you were able to find something that works for you, and I appreciate your sharing that with the community!
I have this topic bookmarked and intend to try to get a message to the Product Manager for some of the lock products. I’ve just been busy with some recent travel and other things, so I haven’t had time to fully address this, but I agree that this is the kind of thing Wyze should offer with their locks.
