Hubitat compatible with Baldwin?

I bought Z-Wave daughter cards on EBay and managed to configure my Baldwin Keyless locks. You can buy the locks with or without the daughter cards already built-in.

What I did:

  1. Move my Hubitat pretty close to the locks (~5-6 ft). Took a long ethernet cable (and extension cord).
  2. Installed the daughter cards (drop-in installation).
  3. Launched "Discover Devices" on a web client connected to my Hubitat's internal web server. This is accessible on the mobile app as "Connect to Hub".
  4. Clicked "ZWave"
  5. Started the Z-Wave exclusion process.
  6. Pressed the "Z-Wave Ready" button on the lock itself - this is the left button of the two buttons near the top of the reference card. Before you install the Z-Wave daughter card this button does nothing, but once the card is installed it causes an amber light to display through the reference card on the back of your lock.
  7. Confirmed that "Unknown Z-Wave Device Excluded" displayed on my phone.
  8. Started the Z-Wave inclusion process
  9. Pressed and HELD the same button on the lock.
  10. Stopped when "Z-Wave Device Found" displayed on my phone - it will be a Generic Z-Wave Lock.

Through this pairing I was able to add codes, lock/unlock, etc. Everything I wanted. I'm hoping to be able to get battery low notifications as well, though we'll see. I was also able to move the Hubitat back much farther from the locks and the connection still worked - I think you do need to be fairly close for this pairing as it wasn't working earlier when I tried it with some distance.

Good luck! Just didn't want to leave this thread hanging since I have actually made this work.

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