Kwikset 914 Zigbee or Zwave Z-wave?

[JDRoberts]

@timd1971

Thank you JD, you are ALWAYS so helpful!

Which model lock do you have that “was” giving you problems so I can consider that also? Good point about Z-wave. When looking around lately, seems MOST locks available are Z-wave… but notice the ZigBee option also… is ZigBee something being offered to locks recently? Were Z-wave more common before ZigBee, speaking locks? Just wondering why the (2) different options…but you do make a good point about the z-wave.

I read that some locks, not sure zwave or ZigBee, but they do not report properly to ST? i.e. if the door is locked / or unlocked… want to AVOID those ones.

Thank you.

Last things first: any smart lock can fail to report to the Hub either because of a range issue, or because smartthings is being flaky,

Have you had a chance to read the FAQ on wireless range? Start with post 11 in that thread, read it, then go back up to the top of the thread and it should answer most of those questions:

A Guide to Wireless Range & Repeaters

As far as zigbee versus zwave, zigbee has been very popular with the expensive high-end professionally installed Systems like control 4, but those installers have a lot of network mapping tools that we don’t have with SmartThings.

For those using inexpensive DIY systems like smartthings, in the US Z wave has definitely been more popular for fixed location Devices like locks and light switches. It’s just easier once you take Wi-Fi interference out of the picture.

The lock that I had was a high-quality lock that worked fine with SmartThings for over a year, then it started opening randomly for about three weeks, I took it off of SmartThings and put it on Wink and it worked fine again. I moved it back to SmartThings and again it started randomly opening, moved it back to Wink and the problems went away. It wasn’t the lock model causing The issue, so I don’t want to list it and create any kind of negative for that particular lock. It wasn’t the lock.