Lumive Guardian G12 WiFi Smart Door Lock

Lumive Guardian G12 WiFi Smart Door Lock: Your Front Door, Answerable From Anywhere

A front door asks its questions at inconvenient times. Someone needs to get in while you are at work. A code handed to a visitor months ago is still circulating and nobody can remember who has it. The Guardian G12 WiFi is the model built for those moments: it runs on your home Wi-Fi and reports to the Lumive app, so the door is reachable from anywhere rather than only from the doorstep.

Four Things You Can Do Without Standing at the Door

This is the work the Wi-Fi connection exists to do, and every item happens inside the Lumive app.

• Release the lock remotely. Let someone in while you are somewhere else entirely.
• Issue a temporary password or an electronic key. A cleaner, a relative or a delivery gets in for the visit and nothing beyond it, with no spare key cut and no permanent code left in circulation.
• Read the unlocking history. Entries are recorded, so you can look back at who came in and when.
• Get told before the battery is flat. The app tells you the power is running down while there is still plenty of time to act on it.

Telling the Three Guardian G12 Models Apart

All three share the same body. This one, the G12 WiFi, works over Wi-Fi with the Lumive app, and its face carries no camera and no doorbell button. The G12 Camera also runs over Wi-Fi, and adds a camera module above the keypad together with a doorbell function, so a caller can be looked at before any decision is made. The G12 TTlock BLE connects over Bluetooth instead, with the phone pairing to the lock through the TTLock app. Where seeing the visitor is the priority, the Camera model is the one to read about. Where a household wants a door that answers from a distance, this is the right model for it.

The Door Still Opens When the Phone Is Not Involved

Remote control is the reason this model exists, but it is one route in out of five, and nobody in the house is obliged to use it.

• Fingerprint. Recognition takes about 0.6 seconds on the 3D sensor, which is built to reject prosthetic replicas rather than accept whatever gets pressed against it.
• The Lumive app. The remote route described above.
• M1 RFID card. The reader stays live, so holding the card to it opens the door. That suits full hands, and anyone who would rather not enrol a fingerprint at all.
• Passcode. A touch keypad, backlit, so it stays legible once the light has gone.
• Mechanical key. The physical failsafe, supplied in the box, for a day when nothing electronic is available.

Capacity, and a Lock That Re-Secures Itself

The Guardian G12 WiFi stores up to 200 fingerprints, plus 100+ passcodes and 100+ cards, each kind with its own allowance rather than sharing one pool. That is room enough for a large household to give every person their own way in, instead of one code passed around. Auto-lock then covers the mistake everyone makes at least once: after a set period the lock secures the door itself, whether or not anyone remembered to.

Spoken Prompts, in the Language of the House

Arabic is one of the languages this lock speaks, alongside English and six more. It says out loud what it is doing as you unlock it or work through its settings, which matters most to the people at home who did not set it up and should not have to. The KSA version is what ships here, in the Mortise 4585 size.

What It Puts Up With: Heat, Dust and a Flat Battery

The outward face of the lock lives where the weather is. The lock as a whole carries an IP55 rating against dust and water, and its stated operating range reaches 60°C at the top and holds down to 25°C below zero, which is more margin than a Riyadh summer will ask of it. Power is handled the same unfussy way: the app warns you while the battery is merely low, and if that is left until the lock has nothing left, its own USB Type-C port will take a temporary charge from a power bank or a similar supply, which is enough to open the door and put fresh power in.

Fitting It to the Door You Already Have

Handing is a screwdriver question here, not a part-number question: the lock reverses, so a door hung on the left and a door hung on the right take the same unit. The supplied instructions assume you will fit it yourself. Where the door itself needs altering, or you would simply rather hand the job over, a fitter can take it on.

Get the Lumive App

Everything remote on this model runs through it, so start there. The Lumive app is on the App Store and 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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