We are not having any functional or reliability problems with the August Smart Lock using the app. We have had some sporadic reliability problems with their dinky keypad in MI winters, even after I had it wired with an AC adapter (so no batteries exposed to the cold). Never any issue with the app, that’s why we are setting guests up that way (except for that one time objector). We have a hidden emergency physical key in case everything fails.
Our beef is with the way Airbnb lets August invade our message threads with our guests.
The “problem” is solved for now by manually setting up our guests, at some inconvenience and room for error. Whether August invite is initiated by us or automatically is transparent to the guest; the issue is with the automated message which we had to suppress.
We recently took a month-long trip along the West Coast and stayed in 9 Airbnb’s along the way, several of them with 5 or 6 digit codes. We are not ready yet for the memory unit in assisted living, but after a few stays the codes started to blurr at times.
Let’s acknowledge that there is more than one way to skin a cat (what a terrible thought in itself), and not one best way.
Cheers.