Anyone remember the first real PMS–smart lock integration in the wild? I swear I saw real-time credential sync around 2016 with Yardi + Schlage on a 120-unit in Phoenix — was there an earlier setup, and do you think Matter/Thread will finally make fobs obsolete?
I’m pretty sure there was a 2015 Entrata + SALTO pilot doing near‑real‑time ‘credential push,’ but your 2016 Yardi + Schlage is the earliest I saw at scale. If you’re testing Matter/Thread, spin up a small lab with Yale/Schlage Thread locks and script move‑in/out to measure sub‑minute propagation, and keep fobs for elevators/gates for now — they’re the dandelions of access control. For context on Matter’s direction: Build With Matter | Smart Home Device Solution - CSA-IOT.
We ran a 2015 Entrata + SALTO pilot on about [redacted]; “real‑time” worked but we still had to do a nightly full resync to clear stale creds, and fobs weren’t replaceable for elevators/garage access. If you’re trying Matter/Thread, stick your border router on a UPS and cap guest code TTL to about 15 min to avoid ghost access. @michael6214, have you seen Thread hold up on battery locks without a drain spike?
We had a setup like your ‘2016 Yardi + Schlage in Phoenix’ and the one thing that stopped random move‑in code failures was forcing every lock gateway and the PMS to the same NTP source (UTC only) with local offsets disabled. Matter/Thread helps the radio layer, but fobs aren’t going anywhere until elevator and gate controllers expose the same time‑aware stack, and I’m curious if anyone has NTP status exposed on those yet.