Yale Lock To Google Home (Step-By-Step Guide).

Yale is a company that offer many smart locks to help you keep your door safe, these gadgets will allow you to open and close your door remotely from a mobile app, also get notifications when someone lock or unlock your door, you can also share access with your friends or family members to let them enter your house while you’re away.

People who want compatibility inside their smart home are wondering if the Yale Lock works with Google Home? The answer is yes Google Home can work perfectly with this lock in order to give you the ability to lock, unlock and check lock status through simple voice commands.

So in the following chapters of this post I will show you all you need to know in order to connect Yale Lock with google Home, and how people can benefit from this integration.

Connect Yale Lock to Google Home.

According to the manufacturer, a Yale Connect Wifi bridge is required with Google Home integration because Google Assistant can’t talk directly to the smart lock.

Now when the bridge is installed and you already have a device such as a Google Home, Google Home Mini, or Google Home Max already configured to your home network and the Yale lock is installed correctly, you can follow the instructions below to pair the two gadgets:

1. Go to the Google Home app and log in to your Google Account.
2. Choose the (+) icon at the top.
3. Then tap on Set up a device.
4. Under Works With, choose “Have something already set up?”
5. Scroll to or search for Yale Access Home in the Manage Accounts menu.
6. Follow the steps to sign in to and verify your Yale Access Account.
7. You need to agree to allow Google to Operate your Yale Access Smart Locks / View the Status of your Yale Access Smart Locks.
8. Next, select a security code/PIN.
9. Use a memorable security PIN as this is needed to operate your lock using Google Home.
10. If you forget the PIN code you need to unlink the lock then go through the setup steps again.

Note: To make sure that your lock has been successfully linked you can go the Google Home app and go to the home screen and scroll down until you see your device.

When you want to use the Yale Lock with Google Home speakers and displays you need to turn off the Do Not Disturb mode in order to receive notifications on them, so here’s how to deactivate this mode:

1. Make sure your mobile device or tablet is linked to the same account as your speaker or display.
2. Launch the Google Home app.
3. Choose your speaker or display.
4. Then go to Settings and select Notifications & digital wellbeing and then Do not disturb.
5. Turn Do not disturb off.

Connect Google Assistant to Yale Lock.

You can also integrate the Yale Lock with Google Home device via the Google Assistant app by following the steps below:

1. Open the Google Assistant app and log in to your account.
2. Choose the Actions icon in the lower left corner (Android) / lower right corner (iOS).
3. Select your profile in the top right.
4. Under Assistant, go to Home Control.
5. Add your Smart Lock(s) by selecting the ‘+’ icon in the bottom right, then scroll to or search for Yale in the Add devices menu.
6. Follow the steps to sign in to and verify your Yale Access Account.
7. You need to agree to allow Google to Operate your Smart Locks / View the Status of your Smart Locks.
8. Next, set your security code/PIN. Be sure to set your security code to a PIN you are likely to remember as this is needed to operate your lock using Google Assistant.

Voice commands to use to control Yale Lock.

You need to know some essential voice commands in order to use them when you want to lock, unlock or check the status of your door and here are some of them:

• “OK Google, lock my (Lock Name)” or “Google, secure my (Lock Name)”.
• “OK Google, is my (Lock Name) locked?” or “Hey Google, what’s the status of my (Lock Name)?”.
• “OK Google, unlock my front door.” Google Home will prompt you for your security PIN code. Reply with your PIN to unlock the door. Google Home will confirm that this action was successful by stating “The lock has been unlocked”.

If you have DoorSense installed on your door to indicate whether your door is open or closed, you can also check that status by saying:

• “Hey Google, is my front door closed?”

How to change the Yale Lock name on Google Home?

If the Google voice assistant find some difficulties hearing the Lock name or you find that the name you assigned to your lock is hard to pronounce you can modify it on the Google Home app by following the instructions below:

1. Launch the Google Home app on your mobile or tablet.
2. Select the lock you want to edit.
3. At the top right corner, tap Settings.
4. Then Device information and then Device name.
5. Enter a new name and tap Save.

Changing the name of your lock in the Yale Access App is possible but I don’t recommend it because you need to unlink and relink your accounts for the new name to be recognized by Google Home.

Note: make sure to set a simple names that you can remember easily and your voice assistant can hear it perfectly.

The advantages of Yale Lock and Google Home integration.

The limited understanding of technology in the elderly category will make the voice control option a great solution for those people to open and close their door, also people with reduced mobility who cannot move around to lock and unlock their door will have the possibility to do this without moving from their sofa.

without forgetting the visually impaired people who may suffer when using a mobile application and those who want all their smart home devices to be fully integrated with Google products, the Yale Lock is a perfect product for them.

How to unlink Google Home and Yale Access account?

If you find that voice control option to open and close your door is not the perfect solution for you and you want to stop it, go to Google Home app and unlink your account and here’s how:

1. Go to the Google Home app on your phone or tablet.
2. Choose your Yale Lock.
3. Select “Unlink Yale Access”.
4. When prompted, select “Unlink”.
5. Select Yale Access Home.
6. Choose Unlink Account and Unlink when prompted.

Source (Yale)

How to unlink Google Assistant from Yale Access account?

If you linked your account through Google Assistant and not Google Home you can unlink it by following the steps below:

1. Select the Actions icon in the lower left corner (Android) / lower right corner (iOS).
2. Tap on your profile in the top right.
3. Select Settings.
4. Under Assistant, go to Home Control.
5. Select the 3 horizontal lines at the top right and choose Manage Accounts.
6. Choose Yale at the top and choose “Unlink account”.
7. Select “Unlink” when prompted.

Source (Yale)

Conclusion.

We’ve covered everything you need to know about the integration between Google Home and Yale Lock, so all that you need to have to control it using your voice is devices such as Google Home, Google Home Mini, Nest Audio, Nest Hub Max, and Nest Hub Max.