wkearney99
Senior Member
Anyone automated the locking/unlocking of residential cabinets? As in, kitchen, bar or workshop cabinets. I'm talking typical wood construction here, not metal.
There's a product that looks like an interesting solution for this:
http://stealthlock.com/what_is_stealthlock.html
Neither their literature or website mentions any option for interfacing them to an automation system. I've used their contact form to inquire. If there was a way to use a contact closure or something with the RF keypad that would be interesting.
I'm not favoring this product, I just stumbled across it in a search and found it interesting.
I'm not after high security here, just keeping kids out of cabinets. Yes, there's always likely ways to get around stuff like this. Again, it's casual prevention I'm after here, not Ft. Knox. Besides, there's likely going to be a door sensor on at least one of the cabinets, so it's not like an intrusion would go unnoticed.
Likewise I'm not at all interested in having to deal with physical key locks. I'd be looking at at least a dozen cabinets and do not want to have that many key cylinders all over the face of the doors. Not to mention the inconvenience of having to scramble for a key all the time. Nor do I want to use the combination lock or magnet kind. It's going to be either something hidden and automated, or nothing at all.
There's a product that looks like an interesting solution for this:
http://stealthlock.com/what_is_stealthlock.html
Neither their literature or website mentions any option for interfacing them to an automation system. I've used their contact form to inquire. If there was a way to use a contact closure or something with the RF keypad that would be interesting.
I'm not favoring this product, I just stumbled across it in a search and found it interesting.
I'm not after high security here, just keeping kids out of cabinets. Yes, there's always likely ways to get around stuff like this. Again, it's casual prevention I'm after here, not Ft. Knox. Besides, there's likely going to be a door sensor on at least one of the cabinets, so it's not like an intrusion would go unnoticed.
Likewise I'm not at all interested in having to deal with physical key locks. I'd be looking at at least a dozen cabinets and do not want to have that many key cylinders all over the face of the doors. Not to mention the inconvenience of having to scramble for a key all the time. Nor do I want to use the combination lock or magnet kind. It's going to be either something hidden and automated, or nothing at all.