I've seen announcements that Yale now has a 700 series Z-Wave lock module for their Assure lock.
Does anyone have it yet or know when it is coming?
Following... I've heard rumors of it for well over a year, but nothing concrete so far. Is there new recent news you've heard?
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I checked the Z-Wave Alliance product database, sorted locks by newest and filtered to Yale. There are 6 products ending with "ZW3" in the product ID. They are all listed as Z-Wave Plus version 2, so that's 700 series. They all look exactly like previous models to me but with the new 700 chip. No idea if the module would be backwards compatible. I know you couldn't from 300 series to 500 series modules.
Continued poking around and found two instances of ZW3 locks have sold on eBay, another is for sale now and then I found the module appears to be "AYR-MOD-ZW3". All I can readily find for this is a sold eBay listing 4 days ago and an FCC listing for the device.
It's a head scratcher-- can't find them even listed anywhere including the "Pro SL" distributors but somehow a few popped on eBay. I guess I'm not too surprised, I just bought a couple YRD136-ZW2 units back in January and had to get those from eBay back then.
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Don't know. The kwikset zwave 700 lock (the 620) is finally shipping this month, so maybe Yale will get theirs out soon too.
That would be nice.. I like my Yale.. But dislike the S0.. Looking forward to Yale having S2 and supervision.
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I emailed the Yale support team since their website did indicate that they now had 700-series devices, and they had the following response:
This website is actually advising that Z-Wave will have an update, is not yet to be released. We don't have an estimated time yet. Currently, the module that we have is 500 series.
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