How to use Lock behavior improvements

Configuration
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When I add a card for a lock I have I do not get this behaviour, how to I enable this?

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Do your locks have this feature?

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I have this lock type

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That is just a smart lock without a latch opening mechanism. So that is why you are not seeing the new features.

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Ah, thanks for this clarification!

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I’m disappointed. Even if the door doesn’t unlatch, it can still be inadvertently unlocked which is not great behavior. Any way to add this to prevent accidental unlocking with a regular smart lock?

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Hi,
in my case the door is controlled with three KNX-switches:

  1. Short open (latch mechanism)
  2. permanently open lock
  3. Close lock

Every switch works as a button. Only “on” has an action and they return automatically to “off” after 2 seconds.

Is there any way to use the new lock behavior? Perhaps with the lock template? But I cannot find something like the latch status.

Many thanks in advenced.

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I does not seem to be supported by the template lock. So at the moment has to come direct from an integration that supports it.

You could open a Feature Request asking for support for latches in the template lock.

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Added PR to HA core:
Add open action to lock entity of the template component by TiHiNi · Pull Request #116888 · home-assistant/core (github.com)

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Is there anyway to apply this to other items as well? Such as a shelly for my garage door or gates?

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My Danalock V3 has a latch function, that I use on my front door. However I cannot use the Lock behavior improvements with this lock. Would be great if this functionality would become more general available. I have switches that I do not wat to use by accident also…
Anyone got the Lock behavior improvements working with Danalock V3?

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Is this PR working on the current HA?

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I just saw it today:
gjohansson-ST finished my work with PR “Add open to Template lock by gjohansson-ST · Pull Request #129292 · home-assistant/core”

So, it should working in current HA release. I don’t want to test it with my front door while I’m away from home.

EDIT:
Made a quick test with helpers on 2024.12.5.

lock:
  - platform: template
    name: My template lock
    value_template: "{{ 'locked' if is_state('input_boolean.door', 'on')  else 'unlocked' }}"
    lock:
      action: input_boolean.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: input_boolean.door
    unlock:
      - action: input_boolean.turn_off
        target:
          entity_id: input_boolean.door
    open:
      - action: input_boolean.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id: input_boolean.door_short
      - delay:
            hours: 0
            minutes: 0
            seconds: 3
            milliseconds: 0
      - action: input_boolean.turn_off
        target:
          entity_id: input_boolean.door_short
      - action: lock.lock
        target:
          entity_id: lock.garage_door

Locks like that in UI und seems to work:

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