The story that the smart lock could not be released and it was finally locked out

A smart lock on the front door that you can't let go of once you start using it. At my house, I installed "Qrio Lock", which I've always been interested in last fall, and use it conveniently.

In addition to hands-free unlocking when there is a lot of luggage on the way home from shopping and when both hands are closed, key operations on the Apple Watch, as well as having a child carry a dedicated "Qrio Key", the author is using it. Even when you're away from home, you can use it to confirm that your child has returned from school, so you can't think of a life without a smart lock anymore.

However, with such a smart lock, I finally had the experience of "not being able to enter the house" the other day.

Many smart locks will be added to existing doors later, so the power source will be batteries installed inside the smart lock. Therefore, it will not work if the battery runs out, and even the smart lock app will notify you that it needs to be replaced when the battery level is low.

I received a notification that the battery level was low even with the Qrio Lock dedicated app, and I ordered a replacement battery saying "I have to replace the battery soon!", But on the day the battery arrived, I posted it. When I went out to collect the posted replacement battery, unfortunately the battery was completely emptied at the end of the auto lock at that time.

I just went to the mailbox under the house to pick up the replacement battery, so I don't have the front door key. The iPhone has an Apple Watch in his pants pocket and an Apple Watch on his wrist, but there is no way to unlock it from here unless the smart lock is turned on.

When I was wondering what to do, it was time for the child who also had the key to the front door to come home from school, so I waited for it and managed to enter the house by unlocking it with that key. If I had a lot of time to go home, I would have spent a few hours at the front door.

Also, it's a very embarrassing story, but the next day I encountered a problem that I couldn't unlock the smart lock and couldn't enter my house.

At this time, I left the house just to throw away the trash, so the iPhone is charging on the desk. The only key is the Apple Watch on your wrist. Normally, it should be unlocked by unlocking it from the Qrio Lock app on the Apple Watch, but it does not unlock no matter how many times it is done. When I noticed something was wrong and looked at the settings of the app, for some reason my home key information had disappeared from my Apple Watch.

It's not the time for your child to come home from school in a timely manner like the day before. The condominium manager was also absent on that day, and I thought that I had no choice but to be in the middle of the midsummer day forecast, but I remembered "the cooperation between smart speakers and smart locks".

"Alexa, unlock the front door" is already set to open. However, even if you say so in a loud voice from the front door, the smart speaker will not pick up that voice. So I remembered that the smart speaker was near the intercom in the room, and when I gave an instruction to unlock it from outside the entrance via the intercom, after trying several times, the entrance door was finally unlocked and I could enter my house. I did.

In this case, the reason for the exclusion was that the notice of battery replacement had been issued for a long time, but it was postponed. Also, although it is not clear why the key setting has disappeared from the Apple Watch app, it is highly possible that the setting was skipped due to a software update or the like.

Not limited to smart locks, many smart home appliances use smartphones and wearable devices as a starting point, and it is usual to check notifications about devices on smartphones.

It is a smart home appliance that can be used magically and hands-free once it is set, but in order to communicate with the smart home appliance, it is not convenient and a big trouble unless you check the notifications and settings of the smartphone more regularly. It was two days when I learned that it wouldn't be ...