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Lock

Keeps track which locks are in your environment, their state and allows you to control them.

  • Maintains a state per lock and a combined state all_locks.
  • Registers actions lock.lock, lock.unlock, and lock.open (unlatch) to control locks.

Note

Building block integration

This lock is a building block integration that cannot be added to your Home Assistant directly but is used and provided by other integrations.

A building block integration differs from the typical integration that connects to a device or service. Instead, other integrations that do integrate a device or service into Home Assistant use this lock building block to provide entities, services, and other functionality that you can use in your automations or dashboards.

If one of your integrations features this building block, this page documents the functionality the lock building block offers.

The state of a lock entity

A lock entity can have the following states:

  • Jammed: The lock is currently jammed.
  • Open: Indication of whether the lock is currently open.
  • Opening: Indication of whether the lock is currently opening.
  • Locked: The lock is currently locked.
  • Locking: The lock is in the process of being locked.
  • Unlocking: The lock is in the process of being unlocked.
  • Unavailable: The entity is currently unavailable.
  • Unknown: The state is not yet known.

Actions

A lock integration provides the following actions:

Action lock.lock

Lock your door, the attribute should appear under a ‘data’ attribute for the action.

Data attribute Optional Description
entity_id no Entity of the relevant lock.

Example 

actions:
  action: lock.lock
  target:
    entity_id: lock.my_place

Action lock.unlock

Unlock your door, the attribute should appear under a ‘data’ attribute for the action.

Data attribute Optional Description
entity_id no Entity of the relevant lock.

Example 

actions:
  action: lock.unlock
  target:
    entity_id: lock.my_place

Use the actions

Go to the Developer Tools, then to Actions in the frontend, and choose lock.lock, lock.unlock or lock.open from the list of available actions. Enter something like the sample below into the data field and select Perform action.

{"entity_id":"lock.front_door"}
Data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Only act on specific lock. Use entity_id: all to target all.