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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 services lock/lock and lock/unlock to control locks.

{% linkable_title Use the services %}

Go the the Developer Tools, then to Call Service in the frontend, and choose lock/lock or lock/unlock from the list of available services (Available services: on the left). Enter something like the sample below into the Service Data field and hit CALL SERVICE.

{"entity_id":"lock.front_door"}

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	yes	Only act on specific lock. Else targets all.