I've been thinking about Remote House Central locking for years. I've had it on my car now for a long time but nobody seems to have developed a system for the house. That is until now. I visited the Smart Home show at the NEC last weekend and found a company exibiting there called diy2go.com. They sell a DIY fit wire-less battery opperated remote house central locking system that fits your existing doors! Instead of keys you now unlock your door with a keyfob! Why didn't anyone else make this years ago! You can find loads more info at www.diy2go.com. I'm deffinately ordering one, it even lets you know when locking your doors if you leave the back door open! Very useful for some one like me who would forget his head if it wasn't screwed on.

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johnsm writes:

I've been thinking about Remote House Central locking for years. I've

I've thought about having various locks controlled by the alarm
system depending on the arming state, but I probably wouldn't
want the remote unlocking aspect. We use such locks at work,
but at over £1000 a piece (just the lock mechanism), they are
outside my price range. The cheaper products I've seen have not
been up to securing a house.

had it on my car now for a long time but nobody seems to have developed
a system for the house. That is until now. I visited the Smart Home show
at the NEC last weekend and found a company exibiting there called
diy2go.com. They sell a DIY fit wire-less battery opperated remote
house central locking system that fits your existing doors! Instead of
keys you now unlock your door with a keyfob! Why didn't anyone else
make this years ago! You can find loads more info at www.diy2go.com.
I'm deffinately ordering one, it even lets you know when locking your
doors if you leave the back door open! Very useful for some one like me
who would forget his head if it wasn't screwed on.

You might want to check if your insurance company will still
insure you first. There's far too little technical info on the
diy2go.com to even hazard a guess (or at least, I can't find
any), but I think you could have a real problem here for several
reasons.

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Andrew Gabriel

Hi John
I've been thinking about Remote House Central locking for years. I've
had it on my car now for a long time but nobody seems to have developed
a system for the house.

Let us know what it's like - I've always wanted one as well!

Dave

You might want to check if your insurance company will still insure you
first. There's far too little technical info on the diy2go.com to even
hazard a guess (or at least, I can't find any), but I think you could have
a real problem here for several reasons.

I would like to know what happens when theres a power cut....

Dave

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For what we are about to balls up may common sense prevent us doing it
again
in the future!!

I would like to know what happens when theres a power cut....


One would expect some sort of battery back up would be required.

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"Paul Ekins" writes:
I would like to know what happens when theres a power cut....


One would expect some sort of battery back up would be required.

In an office environment, typically battery backup for 250 operations
(and a time limit, like 24 hours). Of course, you might also have lost
access to the security vetting system which could mean staff entitled
to access might be locked out because security system can't verify them.
In that case, and after the battery has died, it's physical key operation
just like a conventional door lock.

--
Andrew Gabriel

johnsm wrote:

You can find loads more info at www.wwwwwww.com.
I'm deffinately ordering one, it even lets you know when locking your
doors if you leave the back door open! Very useful for some one like me
who would forget his head if it wasn't screwed on.

I smell a spamming turd...


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Grunff

"johnsm" wrote in message
...

I've been thinking about Remote House Central locking for years.
... Instead of
keys you now unlock your door with a keyfob! Why didn't anyone else
make this years ago!

They did. Such systems have been available for commercial premises for
years. I would, however, doubt the security of one that was priced for the
domestic market.

Colin Bignell

In message , Paul Ekins
writes
I would like to know what happens when theres a power cut....


One would expect some sort of battery back up would be required.


Well, presumably there would be a manual locking/unlocking system as
well anyway.

ISTR that those 2 designers on that TV program about redesigning common
objects came up with one of these. sounds like a good idea, I suspect
the cost implications are the problem
--
Chris French, Leeds

In article , "Grunff"
says...
johnsm wrote:

You can find loads more info at www.wwwwwww.com.
I'm deffinately ordering one, it even lets you know when locking your
doors if you leave the back door open! Very useful for some one like me
who would forget his head if it wasn't screwed on.

I smell a spamming turd...

Me too.