Any cool options for outside keypads?

[PAToyota]

The only problem for me with the RFID stuff is that then you are back to needing to carry something. My one thought with putting a keypad or such on the shop overhead door was that if I locked myself out, I'd be able to get into the shop and have a housekey stashed away in there someplace.

 

[CountZero]

I've been considering a biometric door lock. As it is, I keep a key hid, last thing I need is another key on the key chain, but I would like to make entry a snap, not a hassle, so the biometric looks good. Saw them on ebay priced reasonably.

Charles

I've had biometric locks on my garage man doors for a while and they were nothing but trouble. Errors, not reading the fingerprints correctly, condensation, etc. The company kept insisting that it was a problem with how I was using it and not with the lock itself and refused to even look at the system for me. I've since gone back to a digital combination lock. Battery powered, so interrupting the power does nothing, and from a distance it looks for the most part like a standard knob. (You twist the knob right and left to enter the numeric combination.) Now to be fair, its been over a year since I tried the biometric lock, and one would hope that technology has evolved and corrected some of those issues. I was just not impressed with the one I had. It turned out to be more trouble than it was worth.

 

[tatra]

i saw on tv a while back where a guy had his whole place on rfid............always locked up til he was in proximity of the locks then it automtically opened..................don't need the big door going up and down everytime you walk by but some food for thought..............and as for biometric locks, mythbusters had a segment where they cracked the best with a photocopy of a fingerprint..............even though it had temperature and sweat sensors..............

 

[Vinko]

A friend of mine has an apartment complex and the thieve broke into his unit (thinking that there was money there) by cutting a hole in the wall. Yes, a big hole! He said it looked like someone had used a sawzall to cut a big opening for a window. The wall was on the side of his unit kind of close to a fence. The real kicker is that this happened in the middle of the day. People told the police that they thought it was a contractor putting in a window. Oh, the thieve didn't get much and also exited through the hole he had made, never even touching the front door (which had a deadbolt). Don't freak out guys/gals, this happened in a rough section of Southside Chicago.

I know a guy who had a fear of this happening to him. He put concrete and steel in his front walls!

 

[Vinko]

I think we've all seen those beige keypads for door openers. I'd like to get something a little different, or at the very minimum a different color.

Does anyone know of a place that sells different style keypads?

If it matters, I've got Craftsman openers ready to install.

Maybe not cool, but I've used these before:

http://www.doorking.com/pages/dks-acc-digkey.php

I'm sure you could find something from an industrial outfit that looked "sleek" enough in design though...