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 set upwards your lock. Overview video: Install and ready the Nest × Yale Lock

Note: The Google Nest × Yale Lock can be installed on nigh standard doors. However, your door needs to meet certain size requirements. Subsequently 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 then you can control information technology 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, merely you must pay attention to the details.

Important things to know before you showtime

  • Check that your door meets the following requirements (most standard doors will). You lot tin can use the template included in the installation manual or a measuring tape.

    • Your door's thickness should be i of the post-obit:
      • 1 ⅜ inches
      • ane ¾ inches
      • 2 to 2 ¼ inches
  • The lock hole center is either 2 ⅜ or two ¾ inches from the border of the door.

Note: If your door'southward lock holes are out of these specs you tin can either re-drill the holes after you've removed your current lock. Don't want to install it yourself? Contact our installation partner, OnTech, to help you cheque your organization's compatibility, install, and fix your Nest products.

  • Keep your quondam lock handy, but in case. The Nest × Yale Lock works with most standard doors. Yet, if in that location'southward an consequence, you tin reinstall your old lock and get installation help. Make an appointment with our installation partner OnTech, to have a trained pro come to your home, install and prepare your Nest products.
  • Exercise not install the batteries earlier you are told to by the installation instructions. If y'all do, the lock may not calibrate itself correctly and accept bug locking.
  • Install the Nest × Yale strike plate that comes with your lock. If you don't, your lock may jam. While your current strike plate may expect the same, the Yale plate is engineered to precisely fit your new lock.
  • Close the door during the lock examination as instructed. If you don't, your lock may calibrate itself to your door and jam. Don't worry well-nigh getting locked out during the test. If your lock does not successfully calibrate, information technology should automatically unlock.

What you need to get started

  • Nest × Yale Lock
  • Mounting screws
  • 4 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 can as well use your own measuring record.

installation manual

You'll also need:

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

ane. Install Nest 10 Yale Lock

1. Remove your quondam lock

Remove the current lock and strike plate if yous have one already installed on the door. Yous 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 heart isn't either 2 ⅜ or 2 ¾ inches from the border of the door, you'll need to re-drill them in the correct place.

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

Don't want to install it yourself? Contact our installation partner, OnTech, to help you cheque your system's compatibility, install, and gear up your Nest products.

Keep your old lock handy.

The Nest × Yale Lock works with most standard doors. However, if there's an issue, you tin can simply reinstall your old lock and get installation help. Make an appointment with our installation partner OnTech, to have a trained pro come to your home, install and gear up your Nest products.

two. Install the deadbolt

Screwing backplate into place

  1. Before y'all put the deadbolt in your door, conform its length to fit your door and brand sure the deadbolt is retracted.
  2. Printing fit the deadbolt into the door as shown. Then, use two of the included screws to secure information technology.

Important: If y'all're using a drill, use a low torque setting to avert stripping the screw threads.

3. Install the strike plate

Screwing lock into place image

Important: Y'all must install the new strike plate included with your lock, even if information technology looks the same equally your current one. If you do not, your lock may jam.

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

Make sure the hole in the plate lines up with the lock'southward deadbolt earlier yous install information technology. If not, suit the cutout for the plate with a chisel.

Annotation: 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 pigsty is horizontal before you continue.

  1. Run the cable through the lock hole.
  2. Press to fit the keypad into the hole. It should agree 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 key into the pigsty at the top of the lock and printing down. Pull the bombardment cover directly off.

Tip: You tin can use a thumbtack instead of the fundamental.

Remove battery plate on table lock

  1. Run the lock's cable through the hole in the mounting plate and printing 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 y'all fully tighten them, make sure the keypad and plate are square to the door. Yous can use a chimera level if needed.

6. Install the lock

  1. Plug the cable to the connector on the lock. It can only be plugged in one way. Look for a small tab to align it correctly. And so, route the cablevision behind the cable hooks to concur information technology in place.

Nest plug the lock

Important: Brand certain the lock's thumb turn is pointed vertically and the deadbolt is fully retracted before yous attach the lock to the plate.

  1. Guide the spindle through the hole and claw the lock onto the bottom of the mounting plate. Press the lock firmly onto the plate. It should snap into identify.

Nest Yale Lock spindle through hole

  1. Use the two small-scale blackness bolts to screw your lock into the mounting plate. You can discover the holes for the bolts in the battery compartment of your lock.

ii. Test and set up your lock

one. Examination your lock

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

thumb turn lock test

  1. With the door open:

  • Turn the thumb plow and make sure the deadbolt fully extends.
  • Turn the thumb turn so the deadbolt is retracted.
  1. With the door airtight:

  • Turn the thumb turn to lock the door.

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

two. Install the batteries

  1. Close the door before you install the batteries.
    • Of import: Continue the door unlocked while you install the batteries. If the door is locked, your lock might not exam 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 encompass even so. The Nest app requires you to scan the code in the battery compartment when yous connect.

Note: If your lock does not successfully calibrate, reset it to defaults, and follow the steps to continue setup.

three. Create a chief passcode

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

Annotation: Once you've continued your lock to the Nest app, you lot'll create a new passcode for your lock. Later that, you won't need this temporary chief passcode anymore.

four. Calibrate the deadbolt/lock

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

3. Connect your lock to the Nest app

one. Sign into your account

If you lot're new to Nest, go to the Apple App Store or Google Play to download the Nest app and create an account.

If you already own a Nest production, sign into your account on the app, if you aren't already.

Annotation: If you lot have more than than one home in your account, make sure that you get-go 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. Accept Nest Connect or Nest Guard already set

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

You must have 1 of these devices already connected to the Nest app to add the Nest × Yale Lock. If yous don't, apply the Nest app to ready i of them upward.

Once the Nest Connect or Nest Baby-sit is set up, you tin keep to fix up your lock.

3. Scan QR code

QR code lock

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

  1. The app should enquire yous to scan the QR code on your product so information technology knows what device y'all want to install. The Nest × Yale Lock code is in the battery compartment.

  2. Start with your phone near a foot abroad and slowly move it closer to the code. Information technology doesn't need to fill up the box in the app to browse.

Tip: As yous browse the code, make sure you have proficient lighting and that there'southward no shadow roofing the code.

  1. If yous however can't scan the code, tap Keep Without Scanning and blazon in the numbers at the meridian of the QR code.

  2. In one case the app knows what device you're trying to install, it should guide y'all 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 information technology sends you notifications, so pick one that makes sense.

  2. The app should starting time to look for another Nest product that your lock tin connect to (either a Guard, Connect, or Nest Hub Max).

  3. When information technology'southward found one, printing and agree the white button above your lock's thumb turn to connect them.

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

v. Create Nest passcodes

Create a Nest passcode with the app. This passcode volition replace the master passcode you lot created on the lock.

The app should ask if y'all want to create passcodes for other people who share access to your Nest home. You can also invite new people to share access, and you can fix a schedule that limits when a person can enter your dwelling.

Now that your lock is installed and prepare, y'all can go started using your Nest × Yale Lock.

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