Remote admin of locks

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There is a roundabout way to do this with Dashboard involving hub variables, among other possible ways you might be able to indirectly make this happen. Here is one old explanation that should still more or less work:

Use Dashboard to Manage Lock Codes

A question that comes up frequently is how to manage lock codes from a Dashboard. This is actually fairly easy with a Rule Machine rule and a Global Variable Connector. First, each lock code is defined by 3 values: the slot number (Code position), the code itself (PIN code), and a name (Name) for the code. These can be set from a lock's device page: [Screen Shot 2020-12-26 at 7.49.47 PM] What we want is a tile on a Dashboard to set those three values for a particular lock. This will look …

If you were to do this nowadays:

1. You'd need a hub variable (a new hub-wide feature in Settings) rather than a "global" variable (a now-Rule Machine Legacy feature, i.e., Rule 4.x and earlier)
2. You also don't need the connector, as Hubitat Dashboard can create tiles from variables directly without needing the connector (though that would still technically work, just not really necessary).

That being said, a VPN into this network or the Remote Admin service would both let you see the regular hub UI and do whatever you want to from there. Either may be handy to have regardless of how you make this change since it will let you see the entire device (might be helpful as some locks are a bit finicky), among other things you could do with either.