When you move the geo-fence does it move your GPS indicator also? On mine it does.
No my physical location marker stays where I am. Even if my location is off the marker stays in my last known location regardless of where I move the geofence.
Just installed 6 hours ago. Auto lock failed. I sat in car for a couple minutes. Went to door and it was locked. When I grabbed my phone and unlocked it the door unlocked before I opened Wyze. I could have just used my key. Not to mention that everything I read before buying this led me to believe this used Bluetooth for everything. So since I refuse to to leave GPS on all day I won’t be using auto lock.
I hope the lock battery life is better than what some are saying. If not, back in the box it goes.
For auto unlocking to work you must leave the geofencing area. Sitting in your car in driveway won’t be far enough out.
In the lock settings when you put in your location/address it will show your geofence. You can’t make it smaller or larger but you can move it.
I guess I wasn’t clear enough. I DID leave the area. After installing I went out to dinner miles away and what I said previously happened. Wyze auto lock failed.
Also leaving location services on all the time WILL reduce battery life.
Yep it will. But if you’re coming and going from your house or just lead a busy life like I do I don’t want to go into settings every little bit to turn on/off location services. And there is always the possibility I’d forget to turn it on. I’m kinda forgetful and my mind is always on the next thing. So I leave it on. It’s not gonna drain battery too much.
So this will work. If you are a programmer.
I have had my lock in place for 3 months. Although I was only able to calibrate it 3 weeks ago. Prior to that it was dumb.
And while I have been pleasantly surprised by Wyze products, this is the first one that’s not living up to past brand performance.
It’s as if someone got tired of perfecting it at 85% done.
I’m still waiting for Auto Lock to work. I’ve had it on for three weeks and the door has not locked itself once.
Usually it’s the other way around. Auto Unlock not working.
For me auto lock works every time. Auto unlock works at least 90% of the time for me but 0% of the time for my wife and daughter’s phones. They keep location and Bluetooth on but for some reason it never unlocks for them without manually unlocking within the app. No difference in settings on their phones vs mine. Wife has Android, daughter has iPhone and I have Android. Still can’t figure out why mine work but theirs don’t
The auto unlock bound to a geofence is bad to begin with. It needs to be via Bluetooth range only. Please add the setting to opt out of the geofence and opt in Bluetooth range only.
I need the door open when I am near it.
Hello @bobbyberberyan and welcome to the community.
The reason the geofence is there is because if it was only Bluetooth the door would unlock even when you are in the house just walking around. The geofence is used as the primary zone, meaning you have to enter the geofence and then it will look for the Bluetooth connection.
Then please give us the option to make the geo-fence larger smaller at least adjusted to our needs
The geofence size needs to be adjustable (smaller) and for me auto unlock feature is very unreliable. Thankfully, a keypad shipped today and I hope to just use that rather than endure the frustration of the auto unlock feaure. The Wyze lock was purchased to upgrade a working battery operated deadbolt with keypad, and it hasn’t been a good change. I’m hoping that the Wyze lock keypad restores my original functionality.
I also bought the keypad due to the auto unlock feature being hit or miss, and for some reason a complete miss on my wife and daughters phones. The keypad has been extremely helpful. We can just punch in the code and it unlocks every time.
@stevebergmann I have disabled the auto unlock feature and my family only uses the keypad. I may revisit the feature in the future, but the Wyze lock provides us with what we need without that feature. The keypad is very nice and I hope that it lasts and is reliable.
For me setting up this automation vastly improved auto-unlock reliability:
For those who don’t always want location services on you can probably setup a flow so that location only turns on when you connect to your home wifi (and then turns back off some minutes later).
That’s a pretty slick looking app. Unfortunately, I have ios so it won’t work on my phone. But I also have an old, nearly useless Android tablet. I could probably download it to that and stick it in my car always plugged in.
I’m sure there are similar apps on ios, you’ll just have to figure out how to setup the flow to do the same thing on your own.
When I first used auto unlock it would always open (well 2 times it did) as I walked up to the door even straight off a bike. Now it is taking about 20 secs after I reach the door to open.
Any ideas on how to speed this up? Do you think a location refresh would solve this? That android macro sounds cool but I’m not sure if that will speed up the process I’m going to try differnt combos of wifi and mobile data on/off to see what works best