Door Lock Guest Codes set and unset by some one/thing else (Feb 2023 and July 2023)

[h0ckeysk8er (Bruce Pinsky)]

@uberrob

I was in the middle of a meeting when I got this extremely disturbing notification chain on my phone:

I opened up the smartthings app, looked at the lock history and saw:

My blood pressure spiked… and then I thought to take a look at the SmartThings status board. My heart rate returned to normal when I saw this:

Morale(s) of the story:

• ST is in the process of migrating Schlage locks to the new edge platform - and it will send out scary messages
• If you are migrating a web platform from one technology to the other, and trying to be discrete, make sure your verbosity settings are dialed down
• if the device your migrating is related to home security, pay extra attention to the second bullet point

See discussion of this same topic here.

To be clear, there are plenty of bugs in the stock Edge driver for locks (particularly Schlage) and I HIGHLY recommend using [ST EDGE] Z-Wave Lock PH - Devices & Integrations / Community Created Device Types - SmartThings Community from @philh30. The beta version of this driver in his channel has specific fixes for Schlage locks (as well as exposing more settings) and he has added the capability of seeing how/who unlocked the door as well as exposing that as a trigger for Routines.