--- title: Weekly Update 518: IoT Doorlock Nirvana with UniFi description: Troy Hunt shares a weekly update describing his residential IoT door lock setup using Ubiquiti's UniFi ecosystem, built around four principles: mains power... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-518-iot-doorlock-nirvana-with-unifi-vhlbrwkww twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Weekly Update 518: IoT Doorlock Nirvana with UniFi | daily.dev og:description: Troy Hunt shares a weekly update describing his residential IoT door lock setup using Ubiquiti's UniFi ecosystem, built around four principles: mains power... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-518-iot-doorlock-nirvana-with-unifi-vhlbrwkww og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vhlbRwKww.png og:image:alt: Weekly Update 518: IoT Doorlock Nirvana with UniFi og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Weekly Update 518: IoT Doorlock Nirvana with UniFi **[Troy Hunt](https://daily.dev/sources/troyhunt)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Troy Hunt shares a weekly update describing his residential IoT door lock setup using Ubiquiti's UniFi ecosystem, built around four principles: mains power instead of batteries, fail-secure locking during outages, local control to avoid cloud latency, and manual override for emergencies. He plans to first test the approach on a low-stakes laundry door before rolling it out more broadly across the house, noting some unresolved edge cases around keeping a door closed but unlocked. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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