Nuki joins Works with Home Assistant

[orange-assistant]

@petro

The device only has matter/bluetooth.

and WIFI

@Brononius

The lock works fine via Wi-Fi and the Nuki app.

Also the manufacture app is needed for full functionality, as written in this thread calibration is one feature exclusively available via the proprietary app.

@system

important to note that to set up the lock, calibrate it, and activate Matter you will need to use the Nuki app.

Luckily for now they don’t force some cloud account (yet?) and request personal information

@system

However, there is no hard requirement for a cloud account or account registration in order to use these locks

But the app still contains more than one tracker library with capabilities of location tracking and analytics with (obvious) cloud backed collection of “your” data.

Report for io.nuki 2025.8.1

In all it shows how “generous” the matter standard is. Essentially it allows to build a device which interacts via proprietary means with a vendor app and cloud infrastructure (often even with forced account) and beside this “main” code running it adds some matter extension to expose a subset of functions also via matter. But it works (partly) with Home Assistant

@orange-assistant

To put it more succinctly, Chris La Pre Head of Technology at CSA had this great way to summarize it: “You’ll intuitively know when you need a separate app for your smart home device”.