For people who are always forgetful, the most painful thing is to lose their house keys. Not only can they not enter the house, but they also need to replace the lock core for safety, which increases a lot of expenses. However, nowadays, many high-end residential houses have started to come standard with smart door locks, and various brands of smart door locks on the market are slowly entering ordinary families.
Many people who buy smart door locks will value the brand. After all, the quality and safety of products produced by good brands can be guaranteed. Of course, there must be an advantage in price, and high cost performance can meet the needs of consumers. Today, I will introduce you to the experience of using a Xiaomi smart door lock E that I recently bought.
1) unpacking the product
Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E is developed and produced by Green Rice Technology, which is a Xiaomi eco-chain enterprise focusing on developing smart home security products and Internet of Things solutions. The packaging adopts Mijia’s consistent kraft paper cardboard box, with Mijia and Apple in the upper right corner.
The logo of Homekit indicates that this product can be connected to Xiaomi’s Mijia APP and Apple’s Homekit for intelligent operation.
The packaging box is designed to be opened in a lifting way, with perforated template paper on it, and the accessories are placed in the box in frames. The door locks and accessories are protected by thick foamed paper to prevent collision and damage during transportation.
The accessories include the inner and outer panels of the smart door lock, the lock body, the lock core, eight 5th alkaline batteries and related tool accessories.
Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E currently has only one color matching in black. Let’s take a look at the door lock outer panel. The panel is made of zinc alloy, and the thickness of the front panel is 21.5mm, which looks very thin in visual effect. Surface Iml scratch-resistant panel, with piano paint effect, full of luster under light, delicate and smooth touch. The upper part of the area is the password input area, with the function of electronic doorbell, and the touch position is specially marked.
The handle is designed in an integrated structure, the fingerprint head adopts a new generation of integrated 3D semiconductor fingerprint identification module, and the financial-grade fingerprint detection algorithm has a recognition rate of 98.5%, which can be recognized by holding it naturally.
With the design of straight-in C-class lock core, the emergency keyhole is hidden under the handle, and it is difficult to break through the lock core defense line by violently breaking down the panel, which is safer to use.
The center of the bottom is an emergency charging interface, which is used to unlock the battery with external mobile power supply after it is dead. The sound holes are arranged on both sides, and the doorbell and alarm sound are emitted from here, which can improve the sound propagation distance.
Let’s take a look at the door inner panel. The same IML scratch-resistant panel is adopted. The difference is that there is also a dial button (hardware cat’s eye protection) and indoor electronic anti-lock (electronic cat’s eye protection unlocking).
Anti-cat-eye unlocking can prevent malicious unlocking, and only the administrator can unlock the lock after the indoor electronic anti-lock is opened. The humanized anti-misoperation design can prevent the risk of accidental unlocking caused by accidental touching of pets and children.
The back of the panel is covered with a large area of rubber pad, and the thickness of rubber on the back is about 3mm, which can play the functions of fixing the panel against shock, silence, dust and dust, and can also protect the gap from being pried and damaged by thieves inserting hard objects, and the surface is provided with a buckle-type connection power cord.
2) Installation process
Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E comes with a precision-cast stainless steel electronic lock body, with built-in clutch and idling square steel, which is more secure and firm. Before purchasing the product, you can provide the customer service with the original door lock information of your home, and it is better that this door lock supports the door installation of different specifications such as standard, overlord, Wang Li and Xiaoshuai, which basically covers more than 99% of the security doors on the market.
As a smart door lock, whether the installation process is intimate or not is also very important. After Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E Smart Door Lock places an order for purchase, an installer will contact you in advance to get the arrival time and contact the installation time. After the installer arrived, he first tested whether the function of the lower door lock was normal and started the installation.
Remove the old door lock first, then compare the lock position of the security door with the opening template, and further transform the door body if necessary.
Then install a new lock body. The master first inserts the lock body into the door and fixes it with four-corner screws.
Then take out the outer panel of the door, thread it through the opening, and repeatedly test whether the door lock is installed in place.
Then install the door gusset of the door inner panel, and connect the power supply and signal line to test whether it is powered on normally.
The careful master also measured whether the distance between the top and bottom of the door lock panel and the door frame was consistent with the vernier caliper to ensure that the door lock was installed in the center.
After the installation, it will also clean up the construction waste and help you connect and use the smart door lock for the first time. The service is very in place!
Let’s take a picture of the effect after installation. It can be seen that the color matching and security door of this product are still easy to match. The IML scratch-resistant panel has a mirror effect and a good value.
Take a close-up of the inner panel. You need to open the lock button and press the handle every day to open the door, which can prevent children or pets from opening it by mistake. After locking the door, you can open the electronic lock, which is an extra layer of security.
3) Intelligent experience
Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E can be connected to Mijia APP to realize intelligent operation. First, search for "Mijia APP" in the mobile phone APPlication market, and then register an account after downloading. You need to add equipment to enter the app. There are two ways to add nearby equipment and search and add.
Smart door lock connection requires the door lock to enter a randomly generated 6-digit pairing password on the APP side, and then enter the management interface of the door lock after setting the security password. The whole management interface is very simple, and there is a door lock status display in a large area in the middle. Click it to unlock the phone with Bluetooth. There are two display status bars below, which are user management and log of door lock.
The door lock supports 6-digit passwords, including long-term valid passwords, periodic valid temporary passwords and one-time valid temporary passwords, and the passwords can be modified at any time. One-time valid temporary password can be used temporarily as relatives or friends who come to the door when they are not at home, without keeping close people out.
Fingerprint addition is relatively simple, and it can be successfully added by adding the fingerprint information of different areas at the door handle sensing position several times.
The doorbell, unlocking prompt and alarm volume can be modified in the door lock settings, and the voice of the door lock can be broadcast in Chinese and English. In addition, the door lock supports one-button protection when leaving home, and it can alarm locally and remotely at the same time when an abnormality is found.
The door lock is powered by 8 5th batteries, so you can check the remaining power at any time, and support the battery life for up to 18 months, so you don’t have to pay attention to the power loss every day. The door lock supports Bluetooth unlocking of the mobile phone. Just connect the door lock with Bluetooth and click the middle door lock status to unlock. Press the handle to open the door, and the message record of opening the door can also be viewed from the log. This door lock is equipped with a safety sensor, which can detect the state of the door lock in real time. Once the door is unlocked, it can turn on the local+remote double alarm and inform the user to close the door in time.
Smart door locks support Mijia APP linkage. For example, you can set fingerprints to open the door and go home. Xiaoai students broadcast welcome voices, or automatically turn on the lights in the corridor after unlocking at night, so you don’t have to discredit the light switch after going home, which is very convenient.
Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E has six unlocking modes, besides the Bluetooth unlocking of the mobile phone mentioned above, there are also fingerprint unlocking, password unlocking, temporary password unlocking, Homekit unlocking and emergency key unlocking. Here are three unlocking scenarios of fingerprint unlocking, password unlocking and emergency key unlocking:
Password unlocking supports a 16-digit virtual password to prevent peeping. As long as you enter the correct password continuously, you can unlock it, so as to prevent the embarrassment of revealing the password when bringing people in or neighbors are around.
Fingerprint unlocking recognition speed is very fast, which basically belongs to one-click unlocking without waiting, saving a lot of time compared with the previous key unlocking.
In case of power failure or other emergencies, you can use the emergency key to unlock the lock. Daily emergency keys must be placed outside the house to ensure that you can enter the door safely.
The biggest convenience of Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E is that when you go out, you just need to lift the handle and lock and close the door. You don’t need to take out the key and lock it several times, which is more convenient.
Experience summary:
Xiaomi Smart Door Lock E supports 6 unlocking modes, equipped with anti-insertion safety lock body, C-class lock core, with door lock status monitoring, and matched with Mijia APP or Apple.
Homekit can realize intelligent scene linkage, and it has a long battery life of 18 months, so you can use it with peace of mind. If you want to choose a smart, convenient and cost-effective smart door lock, try this one.