How to install and set up the Nest × Yale Lock

The Google Nest × Yale Lock can be installed on most standard doors. Yet, your door needs to meet certain size requirements.

Later on 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 tin can 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.

If yous want an overview of steps, you can watch our video on how to install and set upward the Nest × Yale Lock.

Of import things to know before you lot showtime

  • Bank check that your door meets the following requirements (well-nigh standard doors will). You can use the template included in the installation transmission or a measuring record.

    • Your door'southward thickness is whatsoever of the following:

    • 1 ⅜ inches
    • ane ¾ inches
    • 2 to ii ¼ inches

  • The lock hole center is either 2 ⅜ or ii ¾ inches from the edge of the door.

Annotation: If your door's lock holes are out of these specs yous 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 yous check your system'due south compatibility, install, and set upward your Nest products.

  • Proceed your one-time lock handy, only in case. The Nest × Yale Lock works with most standard doors. However, if there'due south an issue, yous can reinstall your sometime lock and get installation help. To go a professional to help install and prepare your Nest products, contact our installation partner, OnTech.
  • Exercise not install the batteries before you are told to past 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 yous 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.
  • Close the door during the lock test as instructed. If you don't, your lock may calibrate itself to your door and jam. Don't worry about getting locked out during the examination. If your lock does not successfully calibrate, it should automatically unlock.

What yous demand to get started

Everything you need to get started to install the lock is in the box. Check that you lot accept all the parts:

  • Nest × Yale Lock
  • Mounting screws
  • 4 AA batteries
  • Installation fundamental
  • Installation manual
  • Nest Connect (Bundles but)

Nest Yale lock parts for installation image

Your lock's installation manual also comes with a template for measuring your door. Y'all tin as well use your own measuring record.

installation manual

Y'all'll also demand some boosted tools:

  • Phillips screwdriver or a power drill with Phillips fleck

To connect your lock to the Nest app and the internet, you demand:

  • A uniform phone or tablet (check the requirements here)
  • Your Wi-Fi network password

1. Install Nest x Yale Lock

1. Remove your sometime lock

Remove the electric current lock and strike plate if yous take one already installed on the door. You lot may demand a different screwdriver or wrench to fit your lock's hardware.

Re-drill the lock holes if needed.

If your lock hole's center 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.

Use a ii ⅜ inch spade drill fleck 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 aid y'all check your system's compatibility, install, and ready up your Nest products.

Go on your old lock handy.

The Nest × Yale lock works with most standard doors. Nevertheless, if there's an upshot, y'all tin can just reinstall your former lock and get installation assist. To get a professional to help install and set up your Nest products, contact our installation partner, OnTech.

ii. Install the deadbolt

Screwing backplate into place

  1. Earlier you lot put the deadbolt in your door, adjust its length to fit your door and make certain the deadbolt is retracted.

  2. Press fit the deadbolt into the door equally shown. So, employ two of the included screws to secure information technology.

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

three. 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 one. If yous exercise non, 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 upwardly with the lock'due south deadbolt earlier y'all install it. If not, adjust the cutout for the plate with a chisel.

Annotation: You tin employ either the brusk screws for easier installation with a screwdriver, or the long screws for extra security.

iv. Install the keypad on the outside 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 before you continue.

  1. Run the cable through the lock hole.

  2. Press to fit the keypad into the hole. It should concord itself in identify.

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 hole at the elevation of the lock and press down. Pull the battery cover straight off.

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

Remove battery plate on table lock

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

cable through mounting plate

  1. Employ the bolts that are the correct length for your door to secure the mounting plate.

  2. Before you fully tighten them, brand sure the keypad and plate are square to the door. You lot can use a bubble level if needed.

half dozen. Install the lock

  1. Plug the cable to the connector on the lock. It can only exist plugged in ane way. Look for a minor tab to align it correctly. Then, route the cable backside the cable hooks to hold it in place.

Nest plug the lock

Important: Brand sure the lock'southward thumb plough 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. Press the lock firmly onto the plate. It should snap into place.

Nest Yale Lock spindle through hole

  1. Use the 2 small black bolts to screw your lock into the mounting plate. You can find the holes for the bolts in the battery compartment of your lock.

2. Examination and ready up your lock

1. Examination your lock

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

thumb turn lock test

  1. With the door open:

  • Turn the thumb turn and brand sure the deadbolt fully extends.
  • Turn the pollex turn so the deadbolt is retracted.

  1. With the door closed:

  • Turn the thumb plow to lock the door.

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

2. Install the batteries

  1. Close the door before yous install the batteries.

Of import: Keep the door unlocked while you install the batteries. If the door is locked, your lock might non test and calibrate itself to your door properly.

  1. Insert the included AA batteries into the bombardment compartment. The lock should plough on and play the Nest greeting.

  2. Don't put on the battery embrace yet. The Nest app requires you lot to scan the lawmaking in the bombardment compartment when you connect.

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

iii. 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 you how to create a temporary passcode for your lock before you connect it to the Nest app.

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

4. Calibrate the deadbolt/lock

The lock should ask you lot to close the door so it can calibrate itself. If the lock detects an consequence (such equally a jam), it should automatically unlock.

3. Connect your lock to the Nest app

i. Sign into your business relationship

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

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

Note: If you have more than ane home in your account, brand sure that you lot first select the Nest home where you desire to install your photographic camera. Tap the Card Arrow pointing down in the top left of the domicile screen to alter homes.

2. Have Nest Connect, Nest Guard, or Nest Hub Max already prepare

Your Nest × Yale Lock uses a Nest Connect, Nest Guard, or Nest Hub Max to get cyberspace connection. Information technology doesn't connect directly to Wi-Fi.

You must have one of these devices already connected to the Nest app to add together the Nest × Yale lock. If you don't, use the Nest app to set either of them upwards.

Once the Connect, or Guard, or Nest Hub Max is set up, you can proceed to set up upwardly your lock.

iii. Browse QR code

QR code lock

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

  1. The app should inquire you to scan the QR code on your production so it knows what device you desire to install. The Nest × Yale Lock code is in the battery compartment.

  2. Offset with your phone nigh a pes abroad and slowly move information technology closer to the code. It doesn't need to make full the box in the app to scan.

Tip: As you lot scan the code, make sure you have good lighting and that there'south no shadow covering the code.

  1. If you yet can't browse the code, tap Continue Without Scanning and type in the numbers at the superlative of the QR lawmaking.

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

iv. 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, so selection one that makes sense.

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

  3. When information technology'south found ane, printing and hold the white button above your lock'due south thumb turn to connect them.

Troubleshooting tip: If your lock can't connect, motion your Baby-sit, Connect, or Hub Max closer to your lock. Fifty-fifty a few inches or a couple of feet tin can make a difference.

five. Create Nest passcodes

Create a Nest passcode with the app. This passcode will replace the master passcode yous created on the lock.

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

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

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