Native application for Bold smart locks?

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I’ve been thinking of installing a smart lock on my door, and at the moment I’m gravitating towards a ‘Bold’ lock. It can be automatically unlocked via Bluetooth (BLE) or (optionally, if you buy an extra accessory) manually locked and unlocked over WiFi, both through its proprietary Android and iOS applications.

So of course, I’m now wondering if someone would be able to create a native Sailfish application for those locks that can connect over Bluetooth (and maybe even over WiFi, to completely replace the proprietary application). Of course I’d be willing to pay some money for its development.
The ‘Elite’ version of the lock also has a bunch of extra software features that would be nice to have, but of course the most important thing is simply being able to lock and unlock it as effortlessly as possible.

Through a quick search I found a few third party projects that might have useful starting points:

Is anyone else interested in this kind of application? Does anyone else have a smart lock that they (want to) use with Sailfish? Remarkably, I couldn’t find anything about anyone’s experiences with smart locks either here or on the old forum.

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I say go for it. I don’t have a Bold lock myself, but I’m an advocate of native SFOS apps. I used the Home Assistant BMW connected drive component^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B integration code to get me started with a terminal app for SFOS to control my (late) i3, so checking out the HA code you linked for the Bold lock would be my first suggestion.

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Is there a way to unlock such a “lock”, once the lights go down and there’s no electricity? A good ol’ offline mode, I mean?

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It’s battery powered. All the residential drop-in smart locks I’ve looked at are.

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Looks like my phrasing was a bit unclear, I’m actually looking for someone else to make the application, if it’s at all possible. I don’t have the skills to make an application myself.

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Like robthebold said, I think all the drop-in locks (that you can just swap out yourself) are battery-powered. Nearly all locks actually just rotate the key inside the cilinder for you, so if you ignore all low battery warnings and the batteries run out, you can still get in with a spare key. The lock I’m asking about in particular however doesn’t use a key at all, so if you ignore the low battery warnings and even run out its battery saving mode, you’ll need to call a locksmith.