Now that Yale seems to have dropped the August branding, does anyone know if I could expect the HA August Integration to work with the Yale Connect Kit?
In other words, if I get that Yale kit (that makes no mention of August), can I hope to have this talk successfully to the August Cloud Service? Has anyone had any luck?
I went to my HA > Configuration > Integrations > searched for August.
I set the option to phone, entered the same mobile as my phone in the +XXXXXXXXXX format and my password. My mobile received a new challenge code - and the add-in was prompting me for that code. I entered the code - done!
This shows me I have 1 device with 4 properties. The lock state (locked unlocked), the door state (open closed), battery (percentage) and what action was taken last by whom.
Works!
My integration of Yale to Google also went off without a hitch. The Android Yale app is ok, but a bit amateurish.
Thanks for that, very encouraging! I think I’m gonna go ahead and buy the Yale now that I have confidence the integration will be good.
Shame to have to rely on a Cloud for that but at least it seems to have DoorSense and Autolock, which is a must for me.
Cheers!
Edit: I did end up buying and set this up through the yale app as instructed. This then shared accounts with my august account, and automatically showed up in the august app. As such when i went to add the august lock integration in home assistant it worked perfectly.
Just wanted to share. Thanks all
Just installed a Yale Doorman L3 Family SPL, did the August intergration as mentioned above with mobile phone number.
Connected instantly and I can open/close directly in HA.
Don’t shoot me if this stupid but could I buy Yale lock with zigbee module and use it completely without cloud but with zigbee2mqtt? Or is this not an option because I would not be able to change codes and stuff?
It seems I could lock/unlock from home assistant but would not be able to control codes?
I am also looking at buying the YRD256 lock but tossing up on the module to get with it. Has anyone been able to connect to the lock and get logs or change user data/programming with either zigbee or zwave, or are these features only available with the Yale access kit? (Connect bridge and module).
Is it with this Yale access kit that people are using the August integration?
The Yale Access kit is the same thing as the Connected by August kit. Yale is rebranding these but it is the same exact thing and you can simply use the August app when you go to install/configure your lock. Also of note is that the doorsense ability is only available in the August/Yale connect modules. The highly sensitive doorsense sensor is in the module itself, so you lose that feature if you go with, say, a Zigbee module.
Installed the Yale Doorman L3 Family SPL, did the August integration as mentioned above with mobile phone number.
Connected instantly and I can open/close directly in HA.
I can however not get the doorbell to send anything to HA, there is no entity for the bell.
All my entities are:
Door lock/unlock : can be controlled by HA
Door state Open/closed. can be used by HA as a state
Door Battery: updates the batt charge Can be used as any Batt state.
Door operator: will let you know who opened or locked the door: either “manual” or with user name
That’s it - no more in my integration. Would be nice if Yale made an open API so we would get the full feature but as long as we hook onto August I think this is all we get?
Sorry I cannot give you a screenshot, working abroad these days.
Note: I have set up my lock to auto lock after 30 min. and gave each of my kids a single long press on one of their lights switches to unlock, now when their friends come around, they just press the button in advance and the door is unlocked for when they come. they seems to like it, the lazy teenagers don’t have to get up to service their friends
Quick question. I saw on August page for Home Assistant that Doorman L3 was an “Known Unsupported Device”. Is that specific for, like, the doorbell or is it for something els?
@reypm. I’ve just set up a new Yale Assure SL with Bluetooth module and the Yale bridge in Home Assistant. My new batteries are showing 97%. You mentioned you charged the batteries. Alkaline batteries typically have a nominal voltage of 1.5 volts, rechargeable batteries have 1.2 volts. This might explain the lower battery level % you are seeing.
I’m now working out how to get the Yale activity data into HA
