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.
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