Great information, Jeff. It worked for me! My setup is Raspberry PI4 + HAOS + USB BT Dongle (SABRENT USB Bluetooth 4.0, bought at Amazon) + August Home AUG-SL05-M01-S01 (+ August Connect wifi bridge to save the battery life.) The distance between the dongle to August is about 10ft, but it seems to work with the longer distance. "Auto unlock" was the key resolution for me. The lock response is definitely faster than cloud integration.
Nice on Jeff, had tried to get my Yale lock working on Bluetooth but gave up and went the cloud route instead. Didn’t realise it was this easy now. I’ve already got the Bluetooth proxies which work great with my Switchbot tilt blinds so I’ll try adding my Yale lock next. Thanks, Eddie.
Great video you made it looks so simple...I'm already using the August (v4) lock with Connect Bridge (to extend battery life) in HA and it works most of the time except not always reporting lock status back to HA. I was hoping the BT proxy would be the answer. I'm assuming the M5 proxy is working ok as there's no errors in the log which just shows it's scanning every 5 minutes. But when I try to add the Yale Access Bluetooth integration it says no devices found. The lock also operates fine via BLE or wifi from my phone Any troubleshooting suggestions?
Actually, the m5 stack devices did give me some trouble, which was mentioned in a subsequent video. It did take a bit for them to be discovered initially with the m5 stack, but a reboot of ha seemed to help it along iirc. Thanks for watching!!
In my case my HomeAssistant is already well within bluetooth range (setting up a small ~400sqft office). Is it possible in this case to just plug in a USB Bluetooth dongle and connect that way or do I still need the bridge you talked about?
Any Bluetooth dingle that works with Home assistant can be used in that case. If you're using a pc, like a NUC, Bluetooth might already be there check the bios, it could just be disabled.
I can't get this to work for the life of me. I followed you're video and I'm able to add the devices via yale access Bluetooth but they always fail to initialize. I get the "Failed setup, will retry; Front Door (##########) - ##:##:##:##:##:##: Failed to connect after 1 attempt(s): TimeoutError; Try moving the Bluetooth adapter closer to #####". But my Bluetooth adapter is 10 feet from the lock. Not sure why this doesn't want to work. I have 2 other Bluetooth devices connected (Goove) and those work fine from further away. Any thoughts/advice? Thanks!
I've never run into that, but if I had to guess, it's probably something wrong with the lock. I had an issue with one of mine a while back and August replaced it after a bit of back and forth. As a test, are you able to communicate with the lock via bluetooth on your phone, or only via wifi?
@@fasthowto Yep, I turned wifi off on my phone and my phone is able to connect to the lock right away via bluethooth (and it shows the Bluetooth icon in the top right). Maybe I just have a faulty lock? Thanks for replying so quick! Your videos are very helpful!
@@fasthowto in that case I can’t wait. I’m on the fence to buy two more eufy locks for my last two exterior doors. Without spoiling should I wait or should I buy and expect that I can use them down the road 😂😂.
@@Masrimadden flip a coin, I guess? I didn't even try hard and came up with half a dozen examples of products that have either lost functionality, or no longer function at all, because the manufacturers either abandoned them or made changes. If it were me, I'd buy something you can control locally.
Great information, Jeff. It worked for me!
My setup is Raspberry PI4 + HAOS + USB BT Dongle (SABRENT USB Bluetooth 4.0, bought at Amazon) + August Home AUG-SL05-M01-S01 (+ August Connect wifi bridge to save the battery life.) The distance between the dongle to August is about 10ft, but it seems to work with the longer distance. "Auto unlock" was the key resolution for me. The lock response is definitely faster than cloud integration.
Yep, the auto unlock is what makes it easy. Otherwise there's all sorts of nonsense to deal with. Glad it worked for you, and thanks for watching!!
Nice on Jeff, had tried to get my Yale lock working on Bluetooth but gave up and went the cloud route instead. Didn’t realise it was this easy now. I’ve already got the Bluetooth proxies which work great with my Switchbot tilt blinds so I’ll try adding my Yale lock next. Thanks, Eddie.
Awesome! Let me know how it works out for you! Thanks for watching!
The August locks also support Z-Wave and the range on that is really good and local. I would suggest you could try that as well.
@@JosephDawson not all of them....
I tried setting up Z-Wave on my Aug-SL03 Pro and failed repeatedly. So... Not so much.
Great video you made it looks so simple...I'm already using the August (v4) lock with Connect Bridge (to extend battery life) in HA and it works most of the time except not always reporting lock status back to HA. I was hoping the BT proxy would be the answer. I'm assuming the M5 proxy is working ok as there's no errors in the log which just shows it's scanning every 5 minutes. But when I try to add the Yale Access Bluetooth integration it says no devices found. The lock also operates fine via BLE or wifi from my phone
Any troubleshooting suggestions?
Actually, the m5 stack devices did give me some trouble, which was mentioned in a subsequent video. It did take a bit for them to be discovered initially with the m5 stack, but a reboot of ha seemed to help it along iirc.
Thanks for watching!!
In my case my HomeAssistant is already well within bluetooth range (setting up a small ~400sqft office). Is it possible in this case to just plug in a USB Bluetooth dongle and connect that way or do I still need the bridge you talked about?
Any Bluetooth dingle that works with Home assistant can be used in that case. If you're using a pc, like a NUC, Bluetooth might already be there check the bios, it could just be disabled.
I can't get this to work for the life of me. I followed you're video and I'm able to add the devices via yale access Bluetooth but they always fail to initialize. I get the "Failed setup, will retry; Front Door (##########) - ##:##:##:##:##:##: Failed to connect after 1 attempt(s): TimeoutError; Try moving the Bluetooth adapter closer to #####". But my Bluetooth adapter is 10 feet from the lock. Not sure why this doesn't want to work. I have 2 other Bluetooth devices connected (Goove) and those work fine from further away. Any thoughts/advice? Thanks!
I've never run into that, but if I had to guess, it's probably something wrong with the lock. I had an issue with one of mine a while back and August replaced it after a bit of back and forth.
As a test, are you able to communicate with the lock via bluetooth on your phone, or only via wifi?
@@fasthowto Yep, I turned wifi off on my phone and my phone is able to connect to the lock right away via bluethooth (and it shows the Bluetooth icon in the top right). Maybe I just have a faulty lock? Thanks for replying so quick! Your videos are very helpful!
Gen X Smart Home
You've got your new channel name at the end of your video. "Go Automate Something, Will Ya?"
Not a bad idea, but I think it's a bit lengthy, no?
what about homekit integration?
No idea. I don't own any crapple products.
How about- Home Sweet Smart Home :)
Eufy WiFi locks seem to be very responsive. I want local but not sure I want to make the full swap over
You'll probably be interested in my next video then - why is local control so important!
@@fasthowto in that case I can’t wait. I’m on the fence to buy two more eufy locks for my last two exterior doors. Without spoiling should I wait or should I buy and expect that I can use them down the road 😂😂.
@@Masrimadden flip a coin, I guess? I didn't even try hard and came up with half a dozen examples of products that have either lost functionality, or no longer function at all, because the manufacturers either abandoned them or made changes. If it were me, I'd buy something you can control locally.