---
title: "Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-512-iot-lockout-fail-m8y4gnbky
source_url: https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-512
type: article
source: "Troy Hunt"
published: 2026-07-15T02:05:06.066Z
updated: 2026-07-15T03:38:01.082Z
tags: ["tech-news", "iot"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail

**[Troy Hunt](https://daily.dev/sources/troyhunt)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Troy Hunt shares a personal experience of being locked out of his home after IoT door lock batteries died and the 9V jump-start fallback failed. Key lessons: battery-powered smart locks will eventually fail, rudimentary fallback mechanisms are unreliable, and always maintain a traditional key-based backup. He plans to replace the setup with Ubiquiti's Access ecosystem after a coincidentally timed meeting with them.

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