In case you missed it, both of those are battery powered with a “long” lifetime of 5-6 months. The USB on those doesn’t seem to actually charge the batteries - it’s an emergency override in case the batteries are dead.
It’s your decision at the end of the day, but personally, replacing 4 batteries a couple of times a year will get tedious pretty fast. I’d rather find a powered lock and not have to babysit it.
With the night latch part I may test the battery eliminators and cut a notch for the wire to pass through then route that loose enough for the door to be opened and closed without it getting in the way, would get around the baby sitting of the batteries since they have options for long cabled versions.
i.e something like this once its installed and setup once I order in those eliminators for my setup since I have a power point all the way in the right corner where my corner lamp is:
lol yeah… I do that with my Yale locks. It’s not too bad, but still annoying. I’ve never found any way to power them other than the 4 AAs. I actually have a schedule to replace the batteries every 6 months regardless of battery life reported… Just in case of them losing power.
I have updated the yaml to override it to a lock type but that doens’t work here’s my override code:
zha:
device_config:
14:2d:41:ff:fe:50:95:95:1: # IEEE address and endpoint ID
type: “lock”
I don’t have z2mqtt running but I could migrate over to it (I only have 12 zigbee devices). but it seeems it doens’t work there either.
