*** Sesame. Your key, reinvented. ***
Your physical key becomes an app in 1 second.
● Leave your keys behind
Just lock and unlock your door using the Sesame app on your phone. Better yet, open Sesame with a knock[1] on your phone or let the magic happen automatically[2] when your are back. Your keys, reinvented.
● Share access
Allow guests in no matter where you are. Control who has access and when.
● Log records
Receive a notification whenever your door opens or closes.
● Installs in seconds
Simply tape Sesame to your door with a single strip of 3M Command tape (supplied). It fits your lock without removing or swapping anything. No tools required.
● Fits all deadbolts
Sesame works with just about any single cylinder deadbolt in the USA/ Canada/ Denmark/ Sweden/ Norway/ Singapore/ Japan/ Malaysia thanks to five-patented self-adjusting mechanisms. Sesame doesn't even need to be exactly at the center of your lock or at any specific angle. It just works with your lock perfectly.
● Long battery life
Sesame lasts about 500 days on lithium batteries (supplied), and sends a notification when the batteries are low.
● Apple Watch
Lock/unlock your door with Apple Watch. If Apple Watch doesn't connect to Sesame via Bluetooth, please turn Watch's Flight Mode on and off, and make sure Sesame is nearby your Apple Watch.
[1] Knock-iPhone-To-Unlock feature is available on iPhone 5S, 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, SE, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, X, X Max, XS, XS Max with iOS 9 or newer.
[2] Auto-Unlock feature is available on iPhone 4S, 5, 5C, 5S, 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, SE, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, X, X Max, XS, XS Max with iOS 9 or newer.
[3] Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Intermittent, which is not the description you want for the front door lock to your house. Auto Unlock works about 60% of the time. It’s pretty rare that it won’t connect at all, but it’s happened. Sometimes it will just decide to unlock when I’m upstairs in my house. User management through the app is a bit intermittent as well. Often, I will get a time out error that it’s not connected to the “candy server” but I’m online and connected to the unit via Bluetooth. I wanted to like this much more than I do, and I have to hear about its failings from my wife every other day, so I will likely go buy a real solution, and retire this fun toy.
Solution to most of the problems with Sesame’s bad connection
JG2293
From my experience using Sesame for years, the solution for “disconnected” and waiting to connect while standing in front of your door is to have your access point literally in within less than 5 feet away from the door, doing this will minimize the time for sesame to disconnect or connect itself from WiFi access point to Bluetooth. Sesame needs time to disconnect itself from the access point before allowing you to connect thru Bluetooth, and putting the WiFi access point as close as possible to your door where the sesame is will definitely improve the connection but if your WiFi access point is over 5 to 10 feet away from the door, then it’s better off you make sure your phone is already connected to your homes WiFi with your Bluetooth on before opening Sesame app. Another way is to open your sesame app from within out of range of your homes WiFi(for example: before you get to your driveway) and then unlock it immediately before you get in range to your homes WiFi network, because the problem is... if you access sesame remotely from far away(like if you’re not home and wanting to unlock your door for somebody) sesame uses the WiFi access point to do that, but once you’re in Sesame’s WiFi and Bluetooth range, sesame automatically disconnects itself from the WiFi access point(which is the headache because this is what takes forever). And then of course we all have no patience and tries to disconnect and connect our WiFi or Bluetooth on our phones, which makes it worse cuz Sesame gets confused and keeps disconnecting and connecting to the WiFi access point in which takes time and you’ll wait even longer and longer. So the only 3 solution like I said 1). Is to plug your WiFi access point less than 4 feet away from your door which is where the sesame is, 2). Use only the Bluetooth function(so only open sesame app when your phone is already connected to your homes WiFi and the Bluetooth is turned on), 3). Open Sesame app and unlock the door from far away(as long as your phone is not connected to your homes WiFi, and no Bluetooth either).
Very Functional but incomplete
TNSLPPTSO
I got this lock originally from its kickstarter campaign a few years back.Having use it ever since i can say that it does work pretty accurately for what it offers. It allows you to manually unlock your door, it allows you to lock your door based on a timer and it gets the Bluetooth connection pretty quick and from far away.However if you use the widget to unlock the door, it still brings you to the actual app to click to unlock. All activities related to the lock remain local to Bluetooth because the wifi dongle is not ready, geofencing and knock to open are beta so basically don’t count until they are officially part of the mainstream app. And last but not least there is no HomeKit to be seen anywhere around. On a side note: Supposedly homekit could still be reached via software update as apparently apple will allow it, but from that to actually happening is another story.All being said. If you are looking for a simple lock/unlock device to control your door without your actual key. Sesame could be a good option.Ohhh and I forgot. Battery life does go a looooooooong way. In a couple of years I don’t remember changing battery on the lock maybe once.!!
Developer Response
Hi TNSLPPTSO, thank you so much for your 5-star review! Your support means a lot to us and we appreciate the feedback and kind words. We are starting to ship beta units of the Wi-Fi Access Point and would love to send you one. Please email sesame@candyhouse.co for more information. We do have plans to add Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple HomeKit integrations this year, so stay tuned! Thanks again for your support of Sesame, we will be working hard to continue improving it! - CANDY HOUSE, Inc.
Unreliable
th1sn1ckn@m31st@k3n
I’m having nothing but problems with this. I can not reliably leave my keys at home thinking this will unlock. We have the WiFi module, and the latest version on iPhone X and Xs. 50% of the time I try to use it or more, it will connect, but won’t unlock the door. So I sit in front of the door, like an idiot trying reconnect via BT or WiFi hoping it’ll make the little buzzing sound. I’m at the point where I’m going to smash it with a hammer. Luckily I have an iris system at home and it works 100% of the time.Update, still has issues. When trying to connect via Bluetooth it cycles between connected and disconnected. Today it only took me 1 minute to open the stupid lock because I’m used to turning BT and WiFi on and off to trick the app into connecting. I’ll be selling this soon.
1. Sometimes Sesame app gets frozen, we've fixed that problem.
2. More bug fixes.
Version 1.47
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Information
Seller
CANDY HOUSE, Inc.
Size
57.4 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 4.2 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Languages
English and 3 more
English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
