The Yale Smart Lock with Matter is a native Matter over Thread deadbolt Home Assistant controls locally (no module, no bridge, no Yale cloud) with PIN code management handled natively through the Matter integration.
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Successor to the Nest x Yale lock and marketed for Google Home, but Matter means it works just as well with Home Assistant. Needs a Thread border router and a Matter controller; HA then gets local lock and unlock, battery, and native Matter lock user and PIN credential management (Home Assistant 2026.4 or newer). Runs up to a year on four AA batteries. The retrofit Yale Approach is a Wi-Fi lock on the Yale Access cloud, not a local alternative.
Entities in Home Assistant
Typical 9 entities via Matter
This model has no device dump in Home Assistant's test suite, so the list below is what a Matter Door Lock exposes at minimum. Optional features the manufacturer implements add entities on top.
Primary entities 1 What automations and dashboards use.
| Entity | Type | Device class | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lock (main) | lock | — | — |
Configuration 6 Settings exposed as entities, tunable from Home Assistant.
| Entity | Type | Device class | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto-relock time | number | — | s |
| User code temporary disable time | number | — | s |
| Wrong code limit | number | — | — |
| Operating mode | select | — | — |
| Sound volume | select | — | — |
| Privacy mode button | switch | — | — |
Diagnostics 2 Health and troubleshooting values, hidden from dashboards by default.
| Entity | Type | Device class | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actuator | binary_sensor | — | — |
| Battery | binary_sensor | battery | — |
Derived from Home Assistant 2026.8.3: the entities every reference implementation of a Matter Door Lock produced in core's own tests. A floor, not the full list for this model.
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