Nest × Yale Lock installation and setup

The Nest × Yale Lock connects to your Wi-Fi and the Nest app through Nest Connect or Nest Guard. Follow the instructions below to install and ready your lock. Overview video: Install and fix the Nest × Yale Lock

Annotation: The Google Nest × Yale Lock can exist installed on most standard doors. However, your door needs to meet certain size requirements. After you've removed your current lock and installed the Nest × Yale Lock, you must test and calibrate information technology. Then, connect it to the Nest app so you lot tin control it with your phone.

During installation, the Nest × Yale Lock requires precise alignment to connect the parts to your door and each other. The steps are relatively straightforward, but you must pay attention to the details.

Important things to know earlier you lot get-go

  • Check that your door meets the post-obit requirements (most standard doors will). You can utilize the template included in the installation transmission or a measuring tape.

    • Your door'south thickness should be one of the following:
      • ane ⅜ inches
      • one ¾ inches
      • 2 to 2 ¼ inches
  • The lock hole center is either 2 ⅜ or 2 ¾ inches from the edge of the door.

Note: If your door's lock holes are out of these specs you lot can either re-drill the holes afterward you've removed your current lock. Don't want to install it yourself? Contact our installation partner, OnTech, to assistance you lot check your system's compatibility, install, and prepare your Nest products.

  • Continue your old lock handy, just in example. The Nest × Yale Lock works with most standard doors. However, if there'south an issue, yous can reinstall your sometime lock and get installation assistance. To become a professional person to help install and prepare your Nest products, contact our installation partner, OnTech.
  • Practice non install the batteries earlier you are told to by the installation instructions. If you do, the lock may non calibrate itself correctly and have problems locking.
  • Install the Nest × Yale strike plate that comes with your lock. If you lot don't, your lock may jam. While your current strike plate may look the same, the Yale plate is engineered to precisely fit your new lock.
  • Shut the door during the lock test equally instructed. If yous don't, your lock may calibrate itself to your door and jam. Don't worry nigh getting locked out during the test. If your lock does not successfully calibrate, it should automatically unlock.

What yous need to get started

  • Nest × Yale Lock
  • Mounting screws
  • iv AA batteries
  • Installation key
  • Installation manual

Nest Yale lock parts for installation image

Your lock's installation transmission comes with a template for measuring your door. You lot can likewise use your ain measuring tape.

installation manual

Y'all'll also need:

  • Phillips screwdriver or a power drill with Phillips bit
  • A uniform phone or tablet
  • Your Wi-Fi network password
  • A Nest Connect or Nest Baby-sit

1. Install Nest x Yale Lock

1. Remove your sometime lock

Remove the current lock and strike plate if y'all accept one already installed on the door. You may need a different screwdriver or wrench to fit your lock's hardware.

Re-drill the lock holes if needed.

If your lock hole's middle isn't either ii ⅜ or 2 ¾ inches from the edge of the door, you lot'll need to re-drill them in the correct place.

Use a 2 ⅜ inch spade drill bit and the template from the installation manual to reposition the holes. You may likewise need a chisel to reposition the cutout for the latch plate.

Don't want to install it yourself? Contact our installation partner, OnTech, to assist you lot check your organisation'due south compatibility, install, and gear up your Nest products.

Go along your onetime lock handy.

The Nest × Yale Lock works with most standard doors. Withal, if in that location'due south an effect, you can simply reinstall your old lock and go installation help. To get a professional person to help install and set up your Nest products, contact our installation partner, OnTech.

2. Install the deadbolt

Screwing backplate into place

  1. Before you put the deadbolt in your door, adjust its length to fit your door and make sure the deadbolt is retracted.
  2. Press fit the deadbolt into the door as shown. So, use two of the included screws to secure it.

Of import: If you're using a drill, apply a low torque setting to avoid stripping the spiral threads.

3. Install the strike plate

Screwing lock into place image

Of import: You must install the new strike plate included with your lock, even if it looks the same as your current i. If you exercise not, your lock may jam.

Remove your electric current strike plate and install the included strike plate in your door frame.

Brand sure the hole in the plate lines up with the lock'southward deadbolt before you install information technology. If non, adjust the cutout for the plate with a chisel.

Notation: You can use either the short screws for easier installation with a screwdriver, or the long screws for extra security.

iv. Install the keypad on the exterior of the door

Nest x Yale Lock press fit keypad

Important: Double check that the deadbolt is fully retracted and that the latch hole is horizontal earlier y'all continue.

  1. Run the cable through the lock hole.
  2. Press to fit the keypad into the pigsty. It should hold itself in place.

5. Install the mounting plate

  1. Pull the mounting plate off the back of the lock.

Nest Yale Lock pull off mounting plate

  1. Insert the included fundamental into the hole at the summit of the lock and press downward. Pull the battery encompass straight off.

Tip: You can use a thumbtack instead of the primal.

Remove battery plate on table lock

  1. Run the lock's cable through the hole in the mounting plate and press the mounting plate pins through the holes in the deadbolt.

cable through mounting plate

  1. Use the bolts that are the right length for your door to secure the mounting plate.
  2. Before you fully tighten them, make certain the keypad and plate are foursquare to the door. You tin use a bubble level if needed.

6. Install the lock

  1. Plug the cable to the connector on the lock. It can only be plugged in i mode. Look for a small-scale tab to align it correctly. Then, route the cable backside the cablevision hooks to agree it in place.

Nest plug the lock

Important: Make sure the lock'due south thumb turn is pointed vertically and the deadbolt is fully retracted before you attach the lock to the plate.

  1. Guide the spindle through the hole and hook the lock onto the bottom of the mounting plate. Printing the lock firmly onto the plate. It should snap into place.

Nest Yale Lock spindle through hole

  1. Use the two small black bolts to screw your lock into the mounting plate. You lot can find the holes for the bolts in the bombardment compartment of your lock.

2. Test and fix your lock

i. Examination your lock

Exam that your lock works with the door both open and closed.

thumb turn lock test

  1. With the door open:

  • Turn the pollex turn and brand sure the deadbolt fully extends.
  • Plough the thumb turn and so the deadbolt is retracted.
  1. With the door closed:

  • Turn the pollex turn to lock the door.

If you feel resistance, or the deadbolt doesn't extend fully, remove the lock and re-bank check the deadbolt and lock installation.

2. Install the batteries

  1. Close the door before yous install the batteries.
    • Important: Keep the door unlocked while you install the batteries. If the door is locked, your lock might not examination and calibrate itself to your door properly.
  2. Insert the included AA batteries into the battery compartment. The lock should turn on and play the Nest greeting.
  3. Don't put on the battery cover nonetheless. The Nest app requires y'all to scan the code in the battery compartment when you connect.

Note: If your lock does non successfully calibrate, reset it to defaults, and follow the steps to continue setup.

3. Create a master passcode

  1. To wake your lock, touch your palm to the keypad or press the Yale logo.
  2. The lock should tell yous how to create a temporary passcode for your lock before you lot connect it to the Nest app.

Note: Once you've connected your lock to the Nest app, you'll create a new passcode for your lock. After that, yous won't need this temporary primary passcode anymore.

4. Calibrate the deadbolt/lock

The lock should ask you to close the door so it can calibrate itself. If the lock detects an issue (such every bit a jam), information technology should automatically unlock.

3. Connect your lock to the Nest app

one. Sign into your account

If you're new to Nest, go to the Apple App Shop or Google Play to download the Nest app and create an business relationship.

If you already ain a Nest product, sign into your business relationship on the app, if you aren't already.

Annotation: If you have more than than i home in your account, make certain that yous first select the Nest home where you lot want to install your camera. Tap the Menu  in the top left of the home screen to change homes.

2. Have Nest Connect or Nest Guard already gear up

Your Nest × Yale Lock needs a Nest Connect or Nest Baby-sit to connect to the internet. It doesn't connect directly to Wi-Fi.

Y'all must have one of these devices already connected to the Nest app to add the Nest × Yale Lock. If yous don't, use the Nest app to prepare i of them upwards.

Once the Nest Connect or Nest Guard is fix up, you lot tin proceed to set up your lock.

3. Browse QR code

QR code lock

To begin, open the Nest app and then tap Settings Nest settings icon and then select Add together product.

  1. The app should ask you lot to browse the QR code on your product so information technology knows what device you want to install. The Nest × Yale Lock code is in the battery compartment.

  2. Start with your phone virtually a pes abroad and slowly move it closer to the code. It doesn't need to fill the box in the app to browse.

Tip: Equally you browse the code, brand sure you have adept lighting and that there'due south no shadow roofing the code.

  1. If you still can't scan the code, tap Go along Without Scanning and type in the numbers at the top of the QR code.

  2. Once the app knows what device yous're trying to install, it should guide you through all the steps.

4. Connect your lock to the app

  1. Tell the app where your lock is installed. The app will use this location when it sends yous notifications, and so pick one that makes sense.

  2. The app should start to wait for another Nest production that your lock can connect to (either a Guard, Connect, or Nest Hub Max).

  3. When it's found i, press and concur the white push button above your lock'due south thumb turn to connect them.

Troubleshooting tip: If your lock can't connect, movement your Guard, Connect, or Hub Max closer to your lock. Even a few inches or a couple of feet can make a divergence.

5. Create Nest passcodes

Create a Nest passcode with the app. This passcode will replace the master passcode y'all created on the lock.

The app should enquire if you desire to create passcodes for other people who share access to your Nest home. You tin also invite new people to share admission, and yous can gear up a schedule that limits when a person tin enter your domicile.

Now that your lock is installed and set up, you can go started using your Nest × Yale Lock.

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