Is there any way to prevent Google Home from *unlocking* a lock? I'm fine with Google being able to lock the door or check its status, and I'm fine with the door being unlockable by any of various pushbuttons, events, etc controlled by homeseer within the house but until Google is able to prompt for a pin code or something similar (as Alexa apparently now does) I'm not really happy about it being able to unlock the door. Is it handy as heck when I'm coming in with my arms full of groceries, absolutely... is it secure, not in the least.
I've found the topic in a few different places and the solution always seems to be disabling homeseer from unlocking the lock in it's entirety, but that's not the goal... really it's to prevent something outside my house from unlocking my house without a 2nd factor of authentication. Or for that matter somebody yelling "hey google, unlock the doot" in through the window.
I think this really applies to anything security related... unlocking a door, disarming an alarm system, opening a gate (in some circumstances). There really needs to be a PIN (at least optionally) protecting the transaction. Until that can be accomodated by the API/Google I think there should be (again at least optionally) the ability to block that part of the functionality.
Mike
I've found the topic in a few different places and the solution always seems to be disabling homeseer from unlocking the lock in it's entirety, but that's not the goal... really it's to prevent something outside my house from unlocking my house without a 2nd factor of authentication. Or for that matter somebody yelling "hey google, unlock the doot" in through the window.
I think this really applies to anything security related... unlocking a door, disarming an alarm system, opening a gate (in some circumstances). There really needs to be a PIN (at least optionally) protecting the transaction. Until that can be accomodated by the API/Google I think there should be (again at least optionally) the ability to block that part of the functionality.
Mike
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