Lumive Guardian G12 WiFi Smart Door Lock with Camera & Doorbell

Lumive Guardian G12 Camera: Look First, Then Decide Who Comes In

A door lock usually answers one question — may this person come in? The Guardian G12 Camera lets you settle an earlier one: who is this? A camera module sits above the keypad, and the doorbell function turns a caller into a request rather than a knock, so an unfamiliar face is something you look at instead of something you guess about. You look, then you decide, and the door stays shut while you do it.

The Doorbell Function: A Caller Asks, You Answer

When a caller presses the doorbell, the request lands on your phone. Open the Lumive app, look at who is standing there, and allow or refuse — from the next room or from outside the house. Nobody waits on the step while you ring around asking who it might be, and nobody ends up holding a code they were never meant to have.

• Deliveries and tradespeople. Check that the person at the door matches the job before anything is opened.
• Relatives who turned up without a code. Let them in yourself, instead of handing out a passcode you would want to retire afterwards.
• Callers you were not expecting. Look, refuse, and leave the door exactly as it was.

Wi-Fi is what carries that request. The lock joins your home network and reaches you through the Lumive app — the same place you hand out a one-visit code or a short-stay electronic key, read back who opened the door and when, and get told the battery is running down while there is still time to act.

Five Credentials, One Door

• App and camera. See the caller, then release the lock yourself — the pairing only this G12 offers.
• Fingerprint. The 3D sensor reads a finger in around half a second and rejects prosthetic copies.
• Passcode. An illuminated touch keypad, for household members who should not have to open an app to get in.
• M1 RFID card. One tap on the reader: useful with shopping in both arms, or for a household member who would rather not register a fingerprint.
• Mechanical key. Included, and beholden to nothing electrical.

The lock registers as many as 200 fingerprints, alongside 100+ passcodes and 100+ cards, each kind with an allowance of its own rather than competing for one shared total — room for a large household and for the people who pass through it. Auto-lock takes care of the rest: the door re-secures itself once a set period has passed.

Weather, and the Fit to a Saudi Door

The lock carries an IP55 rating for dust and water, and its operating range runs from 60°C down to -25°C. A July afternoon and a dusty one are both inside that envelope. KSA version, Mortise 4585.

It Talks, in Arabic

Spoken guidance comes in Arabic and in English, with six further languages available. The lock says out loud what it has just done, during an unlock or while a setting is being changed. In a household where not everyone reads the same script off a keypad, that turns the lock from one person's device into everybody's.

Battery Warning, and a Way In Regardless

The Lumive app sends a low-battery notification in good time, which makes changing the battery something you schedule. Leave it too long and temporary power over the lock's USB Type-C port, drawn from a power bank or another suitable source, is enough to let you in and put a fresh battery in place.

Handing and Installation

The lock is reversible, so handing is a screwdriver job rather than a separate order code, and you do not have to specify a side when you buy. The supplied guide is written for fitting it yourself; a technician is worth calling if the door itself needs modifying, or if you would simply rather not. All of it runs through the Lumive app — download it from the App Store or on Google Play.

Other models in this range

• Lumive Guardian G12 WiFi Smart Door Lock
• Lumive Guardian G12 TTLock Bluetooth Smart Door Lock
• Lumive Guardian G12 WiFi Smart Door Lock with Camera & Doorbell

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