A question for those who managed to setup and control the lock through the wifi bridge. After attempting to set up the “Yale Access Bluetooth” (I managed to set it up, but the connection is not stable and it constantly disconnects from the bluetooth controller, I assume because of some incompatibility with my dongle, and already have ordered another model), I tired to set it up through the bridge and the August integration. I have set up everything int the app and the lock is accessible from anywhere, but when installing the August integration it doesn’t populate any devices or entities. And I can’t understand what’s the reason. Any thoughts?
If the lock was not discovered by Home Assistant when the cloud integration was loaded, reload the cloud integration once the lock has been discovered.
If the lock does not support push updates via advertisements or you want lock operation to be more responsive, you can enable always connected mode. Always connected will cause the lock to stay connected to Home Assistant via Bluetooth, which will use more battery.
Hey guys, recently I bought a Yale Linus, but despite following all the methods to connect it to Home Assistant, I couldn’t. August is not available outside the US (I’m in Europe). I don’t have a rooted Android, and the only iPhone I have available was used to try the auto-unlock and check the plist files, but I haven’t found any key/slot entry.
Thanks for your help, but I figured out how to get the key and slot in a different way from the ones in the guide.
If you have a rooted Android (I asked for one), you can go to /data/data/com.assaabloy.yale/databases (in my case, as I’m using Yale Home from the EU), and from there, load the ModelDatabase.sql. In the table LockData, there’s the info about the key and slot. Now I’ve been able to add it to Home Assistant through Bluetooth integration.
Can you please help me, I got a rooted android and the Yale Home app as well, but when I try to go to the path provided, I can’t see the Yale app in the list. I only see com.google.android.gms and my file explorer app. Any idea?
Which file explorer are you using? You need to use one that allows you to see protected folders, like FX with the root add-on installed. By navigating to the mentioned folder, you will be granted root access and be able to see all the folders, including the Yale one. Just let me know if you have any problem.
I tried a few different ones that allow root access, while I do see root folders, I don’t see the yale app. Tried CX File Explorer, Root Browser and File Manager for Superusers. I did create the automatic unlocking feature.
I’ve been trying to add my Yale Linus lock via Yale Bluetooth following the steps mentioned here without success. What is peculiar is that the first time I started the lock, it popped up in HA via the Yale Bluetooth integration, but at that time I didn’t have the Wi-Fi bridge installed so I ignored the integration.
Now that I have the cloud integration working great, I would like to test out how the non-cloud BT-version works in comparison, but no matter how I try, it won’t find the device when trying to add it. I’ve tried both direct bt-dongle hooked to my HA-server, as well as a bt proxy (both within 2m range from the lock), but no success.
When running bluetoothctl from HA terminal, it finds the lock mac address with decent signal. So it should be within range, but just not able to connect using the bluetooth integration.
Oh the funs of Home Assistant an its hidden features!
Go to Settings, then Devices & Services, then click on the icon on the top right (the 3 horizontal lines one, not the 3 dots!) to see the two checkboxes.
I was struggling recently with another integration which I have ignored for a while and had similar troubles. I had no clue at the time when I was trying to solve it, until I found the hidden list there.
