Electric strike and remote access

[Kara522]

I know about the smart lock offerings, but our house has beautiful Rocky Mountain Hardware locksets and I really don't want to replace with Schlage or Yale or other plug and play offerings. I have looked into electric strikes (wired to the doorframe), and am wondering if anyone has come up with a solution like this that works.

[Kathy33 · Accepted solution]

@Kara522  we use the good old fashioned way. We have a mailbox next to the door and leave key in mailbox. So there’s no changing code etc. it’s worked for six years now. Most of our guests are one nighters . And as for electric strike I have installed many of them in offices. And you would need to cut part of your door jamb to install it. Also need to feed wire behind jamb etc.. Good luck and HAPPY HOSTING 😃

[Sean1808]

How did you end up resolving this? Did you install an electric strike?

[Emilie]

Hi @Sean1808,

Are you planning to start hosting soon? I am tagging @Kara522 here for you, so they get a notification of your message, and perhaps can come back with more insights on what they did in the end. As this conversation is from 2 years ago, it could also be worth asking the wider community for advice: 👉 start a new conversation

Have a lovely day 🙂

Emilie 

[Kara522]

@Sean1808 The existing hardware on our front door made it price prohibitive to put in an electric strike. It was going to cost several thousand dollars to do it well, and we were worried about drilling into our custom french oak door. So, at the end of the day we decided against it and have been using a simple lockbox instead. It has been fine and we have no regrets. Hope that helps!