How to Connect Yale Lock to Google Home

Safety 101, should have been the title of this excerpt but the message wouldn’t hit home as it does with our current title. Yale locks are a smart way of managing your home traffic and keeping intruders away, and the best part is that you don’t need to use a key to access the home, given our forgetful nature. Sometimes we might forget the key in the office, or drop it along the way or leave inside the jacket pocket in the office.

So with the yale smart lock, you can give members of your household their passcodes, such that when they come home they can access the house without necessarily needing your assistance. So, before, we learn how to connect the yale lock with the Google home it might interest you to know that the lock is normally designed to withstand the varying outside weather conditions and the changes in temperature without compromising on security.

Even in the rainy season, you don’t have to remove the lock for a better one for fear that it might be damaged with the rain. And once you set up your lock, you will be able to get alerts on your phone on who’s coming and who is going, you also have the option of scheduling guest access and the lock can also automatically lock itself.

There are also some compatibility logistics when it comes to installing your Yale lock and making it work. For starters, you need to have the Google Yale Connect installed and connected to the Yale application so that the Yale lock can work with the application. The above is because the Yale lock does not connect directly to Wi-Fi but rather uses weave to achieve a solid connection with the Yale Connect.

Also, you might want to get a longer-lasting battery because there is no wiring that goes into the Yale lock, you will, therefore, need to get about four standard batteries, and remember the batteries will last depending on the frequency of opening and closing the door, good batteries have however been estimated to last about one year.

Initially, the Yale locks could not be integrated with Google home until about August of 2018, since then they were configured to work with any Google home device such as the Google Home Hub and the Google Home Mini among others. And guess what it can even work with the Google Assistant in your home, giving you the option of using voice control to manage the lock without necessarily needing a smart speaker.

How to connect Yale Lock to Google Home

First, install the Yale lock and set it up in the Yale application, and once you are sure that the lock is working without hiccups, on your phone, you will install the Google Assistant and the Google Home Application and then proceed to sign up for both of them, the above options can be accessed by both the android and the IOS devices.

After the sign-up, proceed to sign-in on the Google home application, you will then click on the menu of the application and search for the Home Control Tab. Still, in the home control option, you will proceed to press the + symbol located on the lower right-hand corner. Then on the search bar, type Yale, select the Yale application, log in and click allow. After which your Yale should be connected to the Google home application.

If you are still green with the yale lock technology, you might not understand the importance of having both applications that you were to download, the “two Google applications under the connect Yale part”. Well, Google home has been configured to enable management of the lock through the Google devices and the Google Assistant application enables control and management via the okay Google function on your phone without necessarily needing a smart speaker.

And here comes the fun part, where you are to integrate the voice commands, and given that most of the smart locks are installed in the front door, here is one quick example that you can use to determine the status of your door and if the smart lock that has been integrated with Google home is indeed working.

The voice command would go like Hey, Google is my front door locked? And the response that you should expect is the “Front door is unlocked” or “the front door is locked.” If the answer is negative, just give another voice command asking Google to lock the door. The above then brings us to the next question; can I use Google home to lock the door?

For the latter, there are so many risks attached to it and that is why the option isn’t enabled. So while you can ask Google home to lock your door while lounging on the couch, you will not be able to use this option to unlock your door, so you will have to do it manually. The simple reason for the above is to prevent intruders from unlocking your home by voicing commands through the window.

However, if you want to try it out and see if Google home can’t really unlock your door, just ask it to open the door, and you will be met by “Sorry, I can’t unlock the door with voice”. Additionally, via the Google Home app, you can integrate your Yale lock to your routines such that if you are leaving the house or going off to bed, you will just have to voice the relevant commands and the doors will be locked.

Conclusion

Given that the Google home application is primarily dependent on Wi-Fi to operate, you can also operate your smart Yale lock without Wi-Fi and will, therefore, function as keyless entry. If you decide to settle with this option, it’s only fair that we make you aware of the risks involved, such as hacking. Yes, the Yale lock can be hacked via the pre-existing passcodes and in other situations, the Yale lock could emit vulnerability and screw up the door’s safety.