August lock integration

It will work but it will eat your batteries every 2-3 week for no reason even with no use of the lock at all. Ring says it’s August’s issue,‘August’s says it’s Rings issue. The sad thing is that someone actually knows why, just not customer support.

You actually got the AUGUST CONNECT to work with the Ring base station? i.e., the open door/confirmation magnet module functions correctly? The best I have gotten is to add the locks via Zwave+ directly as clients to the base station, but you lose all secondary app (August/Yale Connect) support completely. I even tried back door, using SmartThings Hub as the ZW+ Host and connecting it as a client to Ring Base Station and linking via Alexa to my devices there. Tried similar with Zigbee and another $50 per module, hosting by Echo Plus, connecting to Ring as a client and through skills. Tried IFTT & SumpleCommands, aka Kloee, as well, still no dice. The “support” for August Connect is an outright lie, or poor proofing, because it DOES NOT WORK, not even with Yale’s latest, top dollar model AFAIK. Best I have seen is 100% control via Ring, with loss of useful features, including being able to make any changes on the locks settings via app. Everything has to be done via master code at the lock itself, navigating and confirming manually thru the 1-9; *✓ keypad, even with the newest touchscreen model that Google uses rebranded for Nest Protect, except it ACTUALLY seems to work correctly on Google’s platform. Sad really, when companies announce support for something and then silently downgrade their specs or just never get to really integrating the features they promise. As you can tell, I am a little extra upset today… Just discovered the Intel NUC on my new $2500+top of the line 16Gb ram Surface device, which states support (as does Intel specs) will not stream PCM above 16 Bit, even though it claims 16 channels available and shows support for 24 Bit audio at 192khz. In fact, it won’t even put out 3.1 channel, either severely crippled 5.1, crippled 7.1 or stereo. Even my $180 Echo Studio can handle 24 bit multi-channel audio. So sick of these companies throwing up BS specs & silently downgrading them a year+ later. This should be illegal, these corporations at best have garbage QC, at worst straight lie to fatten shareholder pockets, knowing most consumers have no protections and zero recourse.

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Unless you spend more money on equipment you probably don’t need (like me), it will never happen. They keep talking integration. I’m still waiting. I just want to unlock my door while watching the camera.

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Would like this integration as well

I was able to pair my August lock to the base station using Zwave and it was working last night where I could unlock/lock from within the Ring app. As of this morning, it is showing a status of “Unlocked” even though it is locked. It seems as though it’s no longer syncing correctly to the base station. Is there a fix for this issue?

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how did you pair the ring and the lock?

In the Ring app, I added a new device. Selected locks and access controllers and then selected the zwave option. Then I selected add manually. Then switched over to the August app and selected the zwave settings. I was able to follow the remaining instructions in the August app and pair the two devices together. It worked beautifully that night but then it completely broke the next morning. The Ring app would consistently show the lock as unlocked even though it was locked. The August app would throw me in a continuous error loop when I try to access the zwave settings again. I had to do a factory reset on the August lock and then force a removal of the device in the Ring app.

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Has August integrated yet?

I still can’t believe, no integration for over a year now after announcement. That too by a company owned by tech giant Amazon. I am sure they have engineers who could do this integration while partying on a yatch over pacific.

Works for me. August lock connected (z-wave) to the Ring hub. Shows up as an alarm device with very basic controls (lock/unlock, alerts on/off, and battery indicator). The more advanced lock features work from/in the August app.

Getting the thing to connect to the Ring hub was sketchy. I used 2 devices (one with Ring app, the other with August) after having the process hang when trying to use one device.
Connecting the lock to the htook a few trials. I honestly couldn’t tell you the order I used - I used the “hit and miss” method!

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Evidence.

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Yes. It’s possible to do this via the “other z wave device” method. I’ve done this. But watch out. Your August battery life will drop like a rock, and you will occasionally get wrong status of the lock. Without proper integration it’s not worth the trouble.

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Thanks for your post - very interesting. Can you elaborate a bit on how you connected the lock to the Ring hub? I tried to add an alarm manually in the Ring app (Zwave) but it did not “see” the August. Any suggestions?

When you say you went into the August app and into the Z-wave settings, what exactly did you do? I can get the Ring app to look for the lock but I don’t see anything in the August app that allows me to direct it to respond. Would appreciate any tips! Though it sounds like even with successful pairing this does not work particularly well…

How was it that you directed the August module to be detectable by the Ring app/base? Thanks!

How did you integrate the two? I tried to add a device in the Ring app, chose Z-Wave as the device type, and then the Ring app couldn’t find the lock. I am missing a step - what do I need to do in the August app to pair with Ring? Thanks!

The trick is to use two devices ,(I used my phone and an iPad) one for the August app and one for the ring app. But I warn you, this is not integration. Your August battery will go flat quickly and it will not show the lock status reliably. Not worth the trouble.

I recently purchased a Ring Doorbell Pro to replace my Ring Doorbell 2 and was told by a sales rep at Home Depot that the August Pro supported integration with Rings smart home eco-structure. We were doing a major home renovation so I wasn’t able to install my Ring Pro until a few days ago and just found out that this isn’t true. Fortunately my new Chamberlin garage door opener is supported but any ways I would love it if Ring could add support for Augusts line of products.

If this is something Ring doesn’t plan on offering could you please let me know what locks are supported? I have found several sites online that state that Ring only supports integration with August locks so suffice to say I would rather hear directly from someone at Ring as to what locks are supported.

As side from that we love the Ring Doorbell Pro and are now looking at your out door cameras and your complete security system. I have even read information that states that August locks are supported via the Ring Security Controller. Is that true? If it is this is any easy fix for us as we were looking at adding that anyways. Thank you for making a fantastic product, again we love our Ring Doorbell and it was Ring that motivated us install other smart home devices.

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I don’t know if Ring and August would need to collaborate on this but I had an email today from August support about this and they said “at this moment we are not considering any integration with the Ring Security System”

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Agreed. Setup entire Ring System only to come to My Yale Assure by August and find out it doesnt integrate. SMH. Now thinking of returning the whole system cause i love the walk up/unlock feature on this Yale Lock. Please do a software update Ring cause i love your Alarm system. I left Simplisafe for you, now this request is the least you can do. lol. No but seriouly!!

Thanks Brian B