Is there a way to recognize pressing the Schlage button from the outside to lock the door when I’m leaving the house vs recognizing locking the door from the inside manually? I can’t seem to find anything in ST.
Other than the rboy apps, is there anything else I can look at? Will hubitat allow me to do this simpler? I’d like to have a small ecosystem, not 20 different things interconnected. Thanks
You can go one better. If you have a contact sensor on that door, you can have it automatically lock when you pull the door shut. That way you never have to worry about pressing the Schlage button.
Unless of course for some reason you need to know who locked it. I would rather know who UN-locks a door, and for higher security let locking take care of itself… but whatever you need is what you need.
I don’t have a contact sensor but I don’t want the door locked every time I go in and out anyway. I’d have to change the battery every week in the summer
That could be handled via Location Modes. You would have them as preconditions in a routine. If any of a list of modes is the currently active mode, the door would lock upon the contact sensor closing. If none of those modes are active, the door would remain unlocked.
The modes themselves can be triggered by events or device states or manual commands or clocks/calendars. So you might have a Home-WeekendDay mode triggered by the clock striking 8am on Saturday, and if someone closes the door it will not lock unless they deliberately choose to lock it.