You're probably wondering why I'm shooting this at my house. That's because the year is 2025 and I still
don't have a smart door lock until today.
This is it, folks. The Alfred DB2S
key-BL. Why this one, you ask? Well, I could say
it's because it unlocks five different ways. With a timer, with their mobile
app, with a touch sensitive pin code, with an RFID chip, or even with a good
oldfashioned key. I could say it's because of its flexible connectivity.
gives you Bluetooth or with accessories. It can be Wi-Fi connected, Z-Wave or
Ziggby. Or I could say that it's because it looks stylish. Does anyone know what
a sexy door lock would look like? The point is, it's not any of those things.
It's because of this accessory from Y Charge. We actually first checked out
their technology 7 years ago when we showed this wireless power beaming light
fixture that managed to run even a moving train and featured detection for
human skin. so that if you ever got in the way of its infrared beam, it would
turn off so it doesn't, you know, cook
you. Cool, right? Let's take a look. This is really exciting for me because
as soon as I first saw this technology, I was 100% on board. Like, you could
retrofit every table in a restaurant to have phone chargers on them because you
could just have, you know, light fixtures that beam power to little
receiver batteries or something like that. or you could have um electronic
price tags all over your retail store that never need to have their batteries
changed. It's so flipping cool. It's just that I think the price has been a
major challenge for folks. What even is all this stuff? All right, we've got a
little base station for what seems to be the wireless power beaming unit. Okay,
couple screws on here. Looks like it goes a little something like that. This
will have to be within line of sight of your door. But what's cool about their
technology is it sends such a focused beam that you don't have the inverse
square power drop off that you get with other wireless power technologies like
for example chi which is used for charging your phone.
Not much else in here in terms of accessories. We've got a wall wart, one
of the little modular ones. Clip on my North American standard. And then things
get really interesting because the next thing in the package is, you guessed it,
a battery. Why do I need a battery? I'm supposed to have wireless power. Any
device that uses Y charge for its wireless transmission and wireless
receiving is still going to need either a battery or some kind of super
capacitor in it so that in the event that the power is interrupted, it's
still able to operate unlike the train that we showed in our demo all those
years ago. So, this is a small rechargeable lithium-ion battery that
should last functionally forever, which
is to say not forever. But hey, at least this can be opened up with a couple of
screws. So, maybe I could just huck a different one in there. This thing better not bulge, you guys. Lithium
batteries don't like to be charged all the time. What else we got in here?
There's this piece, which has another battery in it. This is the one for the
lock. I don't know what the crap this is. See there? There's a little battery
there and plugs into the Alfred and power receiver. What's this for? Does
this just like Does this like charge your phone? Yeah. Now I want to know.
I'm going to be a giant dork and I'm going to have a USBC thing on my phone.
So, I was just going to put this like here. So, it's kind of pointed at my door, right?
Stylish. It's a good thing I have a sense of humor about myself.
I'm up. Oh, cool. They got what looks like a little uh quarter20 mount there.
>> Yeah. So, you got lots of mounting options. There is another port on here.
There's a type-C port. 12vt 2 amp power in. So, I guess that's just one of the
options. Cool. So, that's there.
The power. Okay. Now, what is it going
to do? Do I have a setup guide that I'm missing? >> Yeah, you took out the paperwork.
>> I did. Yeah. >> That doesn't seem like something I would do. Oh, yeah. There it is. Yeah. Yeah.
Good. Quick start guide. Oo. Clear line of sight. 80° field of view. Wow. 80°
field of view. That's pretty big. The transmitter will map the room for a few
minutes. Then it will run a charging cycle sequentially powering each
receiver that it sees for 1 hour. Configurable. Okay, so green means it is
looking for receivers. Well, I'm going to leave this here then
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Let's modify my Alfred Smart Lock. Here
we go. Man, this thing's freaking heavy. Can you feel it in your testicles yet?
>> Oh, that's what that is. >> How hard could this be? Right. Mhm.
Yeah. Oh, good. Okay. This is a door
open or closed sensor. I don't actually need this cuz I have one already. Key.
Ooh, little RFID tag for your keychain.
I want to get one in my finger so I can be like, I'm home. Man, I'm so stoked on
this. Being able to let people in remotely to my house and stuff like that. You can give them like a onetime
use code. It's great for like uh Airbnbs or deliveries to apartments or just all
kinds of cool stuff. Here's a big fat battery. Ha, don't need you. Let's
follow the modification instructions.
New Alfred face plate. Unscrew the face plate.
Is this How's this come? Oh yeah, there you go. There you go. So, the face is
off. Use the fabric pull tab to remove
the old battery module and set it aside. How the freaky batteries does this thing
come with? What's hilarious about Y charge partnering with these guys on
this lock is that out of like all the smart locks, this is one of the ones
that needs the wireless charging least. Like I think this thing lasts for like a
year on that battery. But that's my whole thing with like batterypowered
smart devices is as soon as you have one of them on like every one of your
stupid, you know, locks and every one of your stupid, you know, window sensors.
You're replacing one of these things like a couple times a week. And a lot of
them come with just like random proprietary batteries. It's just it's not convenient. I want everything to be
hardwired or at the very least airwired.
This is still not charging this thing, so I don't know how that works. Plug the
cable from the new face plate into the new battery module. So, this bigger
battery was supposed to be the one that was in there. And this that was in there
I was supposed to put in. I see. All right. Time to plug this in there.
This goes in a little something like that. Yeah. That insert and tighten the
screw from step one to complete.
That just does not fit quite as nicely as the OEM cover. It looks all right. I
don't think it's the kind of thing you'd ever notice unless you knew what you're looking for. All right, I have upgraded
the Alfred with wireless power. I don't
know if I'm convinced that's working. Yeah, it's still green. It hasn't detected this. I assume removing the old
thing is part of the dillio.
Oh, lordy. This one shifted, too. Oh, wow. I never noticed that before. That's
the thing. Never look that close at your house because as soon as you do it just
looks like crap. All right.
Ar she blows. I probably don't really need instructions, right? Like it
probably just goes in pretty much the way the old one came out, right? Okay.
That is not the size of the hole at all.
Or hear me out. Yeah. Look at that.
Technology. Okay. I was supposed to do this first.
Wait, what? How the heck am I supposed to get this
cable around it? This thing really assumes I have a lot more room in this
hole in my door. Oh boy. Wait, is that
as far as it goes? That what? You got to be kidding me.
Here. No, no, no, no, no, no. There's two depths. There's two depths. How is
this so hard to move? There we go.
Nice. Okay, there we go. Wow.
>> Oh yeah. Oh, buddy. Buddy, you have to
turn that. Oh, yeah. That's Well, it's more about girth than length anyway. How
are we going to hold this on?
Nice. Yes.
Yes. Success. Yes.
Oh, yeah. Bud, I just got the two screws. Who needs all these screws?
They're ridiculous. So, this would keep it from twisting for sure, but I don't
know if I care about that. The gasket seems good enough. I don't want to put any holes in my door. These two I could
put in because those are where the old one would go if I ever wanted to swap
this out. All right. You happy, Mark? You happy, Mark? Are you satisfied?
>> Very. >> Are you not entertained? >> Oh, this is great. I'm so Oh, this is
perfect. >> Wicked smart.
You can fit so much security in there and convenience. Simplicity. Why is the
S used so much?
Now for the third time I put it in the modified battery. I amuse myself. I got
to amuse somebody. So in here we got breaking entry hall 24vt power. I mean
that would have worked. I could have just run power to it. I just wish I knew
how much it cost. Wire charge literally did wouldn't even tell us how much it
cost. We got like a range. And I think even that we got from the verge. Hey,
look at that. They put a convenient little red mark on there for you.
Yes. Now's the time. I'm putting in the last
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description. Well, well, there's your problem right there. There's wood. I'll
need my chisel after all. I found this hatchet.
>> This is safe. >> I couldn't find a hammer. >> Yeah. Yeah, it's rusty, too.
>> Yeah, it's pretty It's pretty dull. I think that probably like it won't cut
anything. I know it's uncomfortable. It really is like >> Oh, no.
>> Oh, no. I got rust on you. >> Workers comp. >> Get the old one, two, you know. One,
two. She's clear.
Hey, it's me, Alfredo. Okay, but I have a
problem. He knows all the way. So, I
need to fix that. First, I want to see if this thing charges. Oh, hey. Hey,
it's blue. It's blue. >> Can you get in the way? Yeah, I sure can.
Boom. >> All right, I bent the thing a bit, so it
should close. Nice. Boom. Z Waves. I'm going to use
the app anyway for now. Alfred home. Oh goodness. 3.2 stars. That's always a
good sign. Place palm over keypad to activate lock. Please keep your phone
Bluetooth on. Hey,
select Bluetooth lock. Yes. into the
master code of the lock to verify your
identity. I guess it's probably in the packaging for the lock. Oh, look at
that. There's templates for drilling and everything. Wow, we sure skipped all of
that. By default, it's just 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
>> master code.
>> Verification failed. This used to be an LTT video and Elijah was working on it.
He must have changed the master access code. Name the lock. F Elijah. No. No,
I'll answer something else. Tap to unlock.
Hey, let's go. You can set pin code keys, access cards, Bluetooth
invitations, whatever these are. Door lock was shared to zero member lock mode
away mode. I'm okay. What's that? Enabling this feature restricts all user
pin codes except the master pino key in appex. Okay, cool. Okay, it's got all
the modes and everything. Onetouch unlock by simply touching the keypad. No
pin codes required. Hey, auto relock. I want that privacy mode. Bluetooth energy
saving. Yeah, I don't care. I don't care.
Now, I want to see if it's charging. So, I'm going to step out of the way.
And theoretically, it's going to charge. What's that? 63% battery right now. Hey.
Hey, it's doing it. It's doing it. So, it's flashing.
It's blue. How do I tell if it's charging, though? I guess it kind of
makes sense that something like this normally wouldn't really need an active
charging indicator. like you would, you know, plug it in and it would, you know,
charge. And how much power does this thing output? We've got the R1HP, which
is rated for 300 m, meaning that you're
not going to be powering devices directly off of it. It's really intended
for like smart home IoT applications like this where it juices up a battery
over time and then it gets used intermittently. It's really cool as
heck. I just not sure if they're going to be able to accelerate their adoption
if it remains very expensive like it is. Oh my goodness, it's warm. Oh, not that
warm actually. Okay, never mind. It's good. Anyway, I'm super excited to try
this out. I'll update you guys on WAN Show if I have any thoughts about it in the longer term. It's time for dinner.
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