Installation
The Product
I picked up a Schlage deadbolt with keypad, Z-Wave bridge and Nexia Z-Wave lamp module. This is sold as a starter kit and I purchased mine from Amazon.com. The lock is really nice; very high quality, with 2″ screws and a security baseplate, it should increase the level of security at the installed door. The bridge is quite small and unassuming, and the lamp module looks nice and comes with a pass-through socket to allow you to plug items into the wall without controlling them with Z-Wave. This lock is not motorized; you have to manually turn the handle to operate the lock.
Hardware Installation
The lock installed into the door between my kitchen and my garage. On Friday night after dinner, I took off the old lock and installed the new one. The Schlage lockset is well-designed and was braindead easy to install. I had to chisel out some wood from the door frame to ensure proper bolt operation, but that was easy; the lock was in the door and ready for the Nexia installation in about 45 minutes. Not bad.
The lamp module plugs into a socket; the lamp that I want to control with it was plugged into the outlet market Z-Wave and I was good to go. The next step was setting up the Nexia bridge and account.
Nexia Setup
Go to www.mynexia.com and choose Ready to setup a Nexia™ Home Intelligence system? Get started here!
Accept terms and conditions and click Continue.
Enter account information. Click Continue.
If you looked up the relationship of vivint 2gig and nexia. You would realize where all this technology stems from. In one way or another it stems from vivint. Just saying.
Not sure what you are getting at. Vivint uses Alarm.com as its backend, where Nexia hosts its own servers and maintains its own systems while you provide, via broadband internet, the pipe to the Nexia servers. Vivint was a viable option, but wanted a contract extension of 52 months and offered entry-level locks.