This time to change the house of the old home to change the smart lock, there are really some twists and turns, because the door at home has just been changed, the door lock that comes with it is quite new, the mother heard that the door lock is not reluctant, and then it is a variety of worries, think the smart door lock can be safe? Will it be difficult to use? It even advised me to give up the idea of installing smart door locks. However, I will not waver in my decision, because the safety and convenience of smart door locks I have felt at my friend's house, I believe that as long as I let my parents experience for a while, they will definitely like smart door locks. At present, there are not many brands of smart door locks on the market, because my home has installed the smart cat's eye of the spotted cat, plus it is still a CCTV cooperation brand, so I still choose the brand of spotted cat this time, and the model is the latest w300.
Friendly reminder to everyone, before choosing a smart door lock, you must first understand whether your home door can be installed, because it requires the door to have a certain thickness, and at the same time to provide relevant data to the manufacturer, including the direction of the door, the length and width of the guide piece, the thickness of the door, whether the side strip is a round head or a single hole, whether there is a heaven and earth hook, etc. This process is equivalent to customization, sloppy.
Spotted cat w300 packaging box in the hand, it feels quite weighty, open the box, front and rear panels, lock body and accessories using foam molds to do reinforcement protection.
Spotted cat w300 has many random accessories and is also very complete, including installation drawings, warranty cards, instruction manuals, guide boards, screws, batteries, front and rear panels, lock bodies, ic core cards and traditional keys. In fact, for us users, we don't have to care about the name of these accessories, because the spotted cat has a very perfect installation and after-sales service, and it is enough to hand over all this to the installation master.
Before the arrival of the master, take two photos of the original door locks, purely as a souvenir. It seems that this door lock is quite new, because this door has not been changed for long, but it is really very ordinary, the parents are old and have bad eyesight, every time they take out the key to find the keyhole, it takes a little time, which is one of the reasons why I insist on changing the smart door lock.
Spotted cat in the country has more than 5,000 service outlets, 2 hours after-sales door-to-door and 3 years of national warranty, after I made an appointment for installation time, the manufacturer sent our local more famous security electronic lock industry company master to install. I was very satisfied with the service of the master, who first carefully removed the old door lock and then began to install the new smart door lock according to the installation drawings and instructions.
It can be seen that the master's installation technology is still very good, and he is very careful at every step, repeatedly adjusting to ensure that the door lock can be installed more firmly.
When the smart door lock is installed, the master also uses it to conduct various tests, tell me how to use this smart door lock, and guide me to install the mobile app and how to use it. A good installer also represents an image of the manufacturer, and I think this spotted cat does a very good job.
Loading the battery is the last step to install the smart door lock, the battery slot of the spotted cat w300 is designed on the back panel, and it is necessary to load 8 AAA batteries, and the reference standard provided by the manufacturer is that if the door is opened 10 times a day, then it can be used for about a year.
If the battery is dead, you can also use a power bank or a traditional key to open the door. In fact, through the mobile phone app, you can also check the remaining situation of the battery level, which I think is very practical, so that you can replace the new battery in advance when the battery is about to run out.
The battery compartment cover is a black plastic shell, which would be even better if the manufacturer could change to a champagne-colored metal casing, which is the only place where I am not satisfied with the spotted cat w300.
I personally like the design of the spotted cat w300, the body color is the champagne gold that the public likes. After taking a few photos of it and sending it to the circle of friends, many people praised its high appearance. In addition to the battery compartment cover above the rear panel is plastic, its front and rear panels are made of strong and durable microcrystalline alloy material, which is a cast alloy material of micron level, which has more excellent comprehensive mechanical properties and mechanical properties, super performance stability and dimensional stability, excellent friction reduction and good wear resistance than other similar alloys.
Spotted cat w300 looks rich in metallic texture, the surface of the use of frosting process, will not leave fingerprints, and the touch is very good, the overall look is simple and stylish and has a grade. I remember the mother who initially strongly opposed the installation of smart door locks, and when the spotted cat w300 was installed, she also praised it as very good-looking.
Spotted Cat w300 adopts the common slide design, and I personally prefer a smart door lock with a slide, because this can better protect the password panel and fingerprint head, effectively extending the service life of the smart door lock. The sliding process of the slide is very smooth, with a little bit of damping, the bottom of the complete slide will automatically stop, whether it is the upper handle, or the lower pressure handle, the slide will automatically slide off and close.
When the slide starts to slide upwards, the indicator light and screen of the password panel will automatically light up, the screen will have text display, and there will be corresponding voice prompts during the unlocking process. Spotted cat w300 uses a drilled touch panel, it is sensitive to touch, long service life, the white backlight on the panel is also very eye-catching, and it can be seen clearly in the environment without light at night.
The easiest way to open the door is still fingerprint unlocking, spotted cat w300 uses a Swedish fpc fingerprint head, with the function of fingerprint self-learning, can adapt to a variety of fingerprint unlocking scenes, the longer the use of time will be more sensitive, the faster the recognition speed. To know this fingerprint recognition chip solution, but with some high-end mobile phone fingerprint buttons the same. Like my parents are elderly people, their fingerprints are relatively not so clear, but the fingerprint collection is smooth, and the unlocking and opening of the door is just as fast.
Spotted cat w300 is also equipped with three ic core cards, through the magnetic card induction to open the door to unlock is also very convenient, of course, want to compare fingerprints and passwords, it is the real thing, is the physical object there is a possibility of loss and damage, so in general, I am still more willing to let the family through the fingerprint or password to open the door.
At the bottom of the front panel, there are also speakers, a traditional keyhole and a USB connector. Voice prompt, is a humanized function, although the screen will show the current state of the smart door lock, but after all, the screen is not very large, for people with poor vision, it will be more convenient to judge whether to successfully unlock the door directly by listening.
The width and length of the handle of the spotted cat w300 are relatively moderate, whether it is lifted up or down, the operation is very smooth. Like most smart door locks, the down pressure is to open the door, and the upper pressure is to reverse the lock.
Let's take a video to understand the process of the spotted cat w300 slide automatically sliding off and closing, and this process takes about two seconds to complete.
Look at the design of the back panel, the battery compartment and handle are not tired, it is mainly more than one anti-lock knob, you can turn the left or right 90 ° to completely reverse the door lock, at this time the indoor can not be opened by pressing the handle, you can effectively avoid the child to open the door by mistake, but the outdoor may be unlocked normally through the administrator account and key.
Through the side view, the front and rear panels and lock body of the spotted cat w300 are a little thick, it is worth mentioning that it uses a 304 stainless steel lock body, very strong and durable, but also uses a C-class safety lock cylinder, this level of lock cylinder is detected by the Ministry of Public Security for 270 minutes can not be opened technically, the area mutual opening rate is zero, the safety factor is extremely high. After telling her mother this, she did not understand it, but after seeing these thick stainless steel lock tongues, her concerns slowly disappeared.
Spotted cat has a lot of smart home products, their supporting mobile phone software for the spotted cat app, support Android and Apple ios two systems, in the mobile phone app store can be downloaded. The first time you open the Spotted Cat app, you need to register an account through your mobile phone to log in, and then add the device. This time the installation is spotted cat w300 smart door lock, so choose the IoT fingerprint lock, because it does not have a gateway, so choose the wifi/Bluetooth fingerprint lock option.
The entire process of adding devices is wizard-like, so it's not difficult to install. Open the battery compartment lid to see the product's sn code, scan the device to connect the wireless wifi at home, the smart door lock was successfully added. It should be noted that wireless wifi networks only support 2.4ghz, and I have also found that almost all smart home products now do not support 5ghz networks.
To be honest, the interface of the Spotted Cat App is designed to be a bit simple, the color matching, icons are not beautiful enough, but fortunately, its menu layout is relatively orderly, and it is not too difficult to control, because I have installed the Spotted Cat Smart Cat Eye at home, all of which can be seen in the device interface, and the upper part of the home page interface is the picture it monitors.
The main function of the smart door lock on the market, the spotted cat w300y, is mostly available, and its design in some details can reflect the humanized side. For example, the coercion password, when threatened by gangsters, you can enter the coercive password set, the door lock will automatically send alarm information to all household registered users after opening, so that they can call the police or deal with it in time. Maybe you think the possibility of being coerced is very small, but don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case.
Under the permission management interface, you can add fingerprints and IC core card authorization operations for your family, and the system can set a password, a primary fingerprint, an alternate fingerprint and an IC core card for each number by default. Maybe you will feel that a person with only two fingerprints is not enough, this problem is very easy to solve, just add one more number. A person has two numbers, which means that it can enter up to 4 fingerprints. Of course, if necessary, it is no problem to enter 10 fingerprints, and you can continue to add numbers.
If you encounter a situation where relatives and friends visit and you are not at home, you can also open it remotely by pushing a set of temporary passwords remotely or directly waking up the door lock. When the door lock is in a dormant and disconnected state, it can also be unlocked through a Bluetooth connection. It is worth mentioning that through the scene connection, the w300 can also be linked with the smart cat's eye, when the door is opened, the smart cat's eye automatically captures and keeps the photo. The Spotted Cat app also has a powerful message push function, when to unlock, when to reverse the lock, when to go online and so on, you can understand it in time.
After installing the Spotted Cat w300, I also had some concerns, worried that my family could really use it. In case of a malfunction, will it make the family doubt its safety? As it turned out, these were all things I was blindly worried about. Parents not only quickly learned to use, and admitted that it is indeed much more time-saving and labor-saving than using a traditional key to open, especially the voice prompts, which help them a lot, and have been used for a period of time, and there has not been any malfunction problems so far. For me, the function of different brands and different models of smart door locks is actually about the same, and the real high and low often experience the details now, the spotted cat w300 not only has a high appearance and safety, but it is simple and easy to use, and the quality also reassures me. Spotted cat w300, understand my "lock" request, is a trustworthy smart door lock.