How exactly do you guys connect to the locks?

Depends a bit on the lock or access system. As of right now, most smart locks out there are still using a combination of zigbee, zwave, or bluetooth. This means that if you want remote control, you need to bridge them over to TCP/IP. We have a multiprotocol hub that we've developed for this. The hub itself isn't always required per say. For example, we're starting to see wifi locks. They generally have much lower battery life, but they eliminate the need for additional hardware, which is great. For bluetooth locks (e.g. August), we're looking at also building a single mobile SDK that would work with the various brands. This is really tricky because this requires a lot of reverse engineering.

Ironically the company that produces the lockboxes used in the story for this item also has door locks that use the same one time code mechanism (similar to Google Auth). No network connectivity required. I was never interested in putting a lock that had any kind of Internet requirement, but now I'm very interested in this one.

Their site if you didn't pick it up from the original article: https://www.igloohome.co/en-us/

The map area is 10 miles so that the servers don't get crushed

This is pretty cool. Wonder if we could get rid of the need for charles

Actually they should do this. Many guys I know swipe only right and my girl friends hate that. Maybe this will be an unintentional result of this tweak :)

It was also a bit of a teaching moment. I was trying to show our intern how to use http://www.cycript.org/ for fun at night and he happened to have the Tinder app open. We love hacking things.

Hmm ive got to try this id guess that CL would block their ip but if not then this is a great idea

I'll venture to guess they're running off of AWS. CL blocks ec2 us-east ip's. So it probably wouldn't work.

It actually works very well.

We're happy to hear that we can't wait! As far as legislation goes, we expect some pushback but we are ready to fight it head on. Thanks for the comment, we really appreciate it.

Hi deegles,

Thanks for the feedback. We have added this to our todo list. We are still in the process of finalizing the flow of the site.

Hey Andrew,

Thanks for the feedback. We are focusing on the bay area for now but are looking forward to expanding. As far as the wording goes, we've gotten several comments about it and will be changing it soon.

I was able to access them for quite a while even long enough to read complaints about the outage. Wonder if they just turned them off to prevent all the would be posts about the downtime