August Smart Lock 3rd Generation Installation

August'due south line of retrofit smart locks make it easy to bring your front door into your smart habitation. The newest model, the $250Baronial Wi-Fi Smart Lock, is the smallest yet and information technology'due south likewise smarter than its predecessors. This article guides y'all through installing the Baronial Wi-Fi Smart Lock, simply installation is similar for other Baronial models. When you lot purchase a model, bank check its online installation guides for details.

Before you begin

Before disassembling anything on your door, you should cheque a few things. Make sure your door closes hands and all the style. If y'all demand to give information technology an actress shove or pull up or down on hinges, a smart lock will have a hard time calibrating and operating successfully.

With your door check-upwardly completed, yous tin can open upwardly the August box and go started. The August Wi-Fi Smart Lock comes with virtually everything you need to self-install. All you need to bring is a screwdriver.

one. Download the app

Download the August Home app for iOS or Android. Create an account or log in if you've already fabricated ane. Select "prepare a device" so "gear up upwards a smart lock" and select the August Wi-Fi Smart Lock. When prompted, scan the QR code on the within of the lock's faceplate. You'll exist provided with installation instructions yous can follow footstep by stride.

2. Remove your pollex latch

You'll exist working on the interior side of your door, where the August lock will mount. Begin by unscrewing the screws on either side of your lock'south pollex latch. To keep the front end of the deadbolt from falling in one case the screws are removed, add together a piece of tape over the front hardware to concur it in identify. Remove the thumb latch and locate the August mounting plate in your packaging.

20200511-105003 — The greenish adapter provided fit my Kwikset deadbolt.
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3. Add mounting plate and adapter

The included mounting plate has two adjustable spiral holes and so you tin reposition equally needed to line upwardly with your door's deadbolt housing. Place the screws from the pollex latch into the front of the mounting plate and tighten them past paw until the mounting plate is secure.

Adjacent, choose the correct adapter based on the tailpiece shape and orientation of your deadbolt. August'southward website has a helpful chart for this, and the app will offer guidance as well. Place the adapter into the mounting plate and onto the tailpiece, raised triangle shapes pointing upwardly.

four. Attach Baronial Lock

Information technology's fourth dimension to add the lock machinery. On the back of the August lock, enhance the side wing latches and slide the lock over the tailpiece, setting it onto the mounting plate. Brand sure the back of the lock is affluent with the door. Shut both wing latches to secure the lock in place.

5. Insert batteries

To insert the two CR123 batteries, printing down on the August logo and pop off the magnetic faceplate. While property the batteries in place, remove the plastic bombardment tab and put the faceplate dorsum onto the August lock with the logo at the lesser. Your lock is at present installed, and yous tin continue setup in the August Dwelling app. If yous're using the included DoorSense sensors, attach those at present and follow directions in the app for calibrating door opening and closing distances.

20200511-105057 — My completed August Wi-FI Smart Lock install with DoorSense sensor.
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half dozen. Cease setup in the app

At present that the install is done, you lot'll need to calibrate your lock and connect it to your domicile's Wi-Fi. If you lot've left the app open up at the installation instructions section, tap "continue" to begin the calibration. Next, connect the lock to your Wi-Fi past inbound your network credentials. With these two steps completed, your lock is ready to utilise. The Baronial app has further options for naming your domicile and lock, likewise as adding users and setting upwards features such every bit auto lock and chime book.