Best practices for using Away Mode

[kevin]

I don’t trust any “smart” locks or door openers I’m surprised so many people are using them…

Lock unlocking for no reason?!

I have a Schlage Z-wave lever style lock and only come in and out of it using user codes. It’s a door used by multiple parties including our upstairs neighbors and dog walker/cat sitter. Everyone uses a different code. The door is supposed to lock after each code is used and it does whenever I am paying attention. The thing is, I often come home or am leaving to find the door unlocked. I am nearly certain no one is manually pressing the unlock button inside. What else could be happening?

Garage Door Opener - Randomly opens and closes

My ST Hub is paired with Lowes GD00Z-1 garage door opener and working fine from past more than a year. Past 3 days, the garage door is opening randomly, and it closed automatically too once, during the day time (my home is in Disarmed / Home mode, while I am away at work, I should add) I don’t have any automations to open/close it, other than the Night Routine, which just locks everything, and closes the garage door, if open. Thanks to my neighbors, I got texts asking if I was at home, which told me that it opened again while I was at work, and I closed it, but its becoming more of a security issue with all these random triggers. I did some search on the forum and seems others have faced this issue, but don’t see any concrete resolutions anywhere. What do you guys recommend or suggest…

Garage door opens Unexpectedly

We were in bed and all of a sudden SmartThings tell us the garage door is open, at 10:47pm. This was an Unexpected action. It should not have opened. I looked at all the push notifications and did not see any reason for the Garage door to open. In fact the only action to open the Garage door when entering the GPS fence was disabled (that is another story). We were leaving for a weeks vacation so I disconnected the Z-wave relay switch until I can figure this out. The SmartThiings system took a BIG “Wife Approval” hit when this happened !!! Has anyone else had false or unexpected actions like this one opening a Garage door or unlocking an exterior door? This is a very serious security flaw. Hard to use a system that randomly opens your garage door, leaving everything in the garage expo…