When we first released the iLock, it was called the ‘Digilock’. However, we soon found another company selling entry controls with the same name and decided to change the name. We searched high and low to see if any other companies were marketing an ‘iLock’ for access control at the time. We couldn’t find anything, so the Digilock became the iLock.
About 3 years ago, we started to get queries from car owners who had iLocks installed in their vehicles. They usually wanted additional key fobs, but we never got into details about the system they had. I had a couple people who bought a car used with an iLock ask how to disable it, which we helped them with. Nothing extraordinary. Until about a year ago, when we had someone send an email very upset that our 800 number was now a gay sex/porn line (800-759-5625). Needless to say, we were a little surprised. We didn’t have an 800 number. I exchanged a few emails and finally they sent me some digital pictures of the system their car had. Apparently a company had started marketing an almost identical system to ours for car security and called it the iLock. The name of the company and an 800 number were embossed on the key fobs holding the iButton keys. It definitely wasn’t our product. Since then we’ve had a handful of people contact us about their ‘iLock’. Almost universally they mention the 800 number that routes them to a sex line. That’s how we know it’s not our system! The makers of that iLock system are clearly no longer in business, so people usually end up here asking us if we can help.
So if you have an ‘iLock’ system in your car or house - it’s easy to tell if it’s our system or not. Their system’s key fobs will have the name ‘iLock’ and an 800 number embossed on them. The key fobs with them are usually clear blue or purple plastic. Our key fobs come in a variety of colors, but have no writing on them at all and are opaque. It appears they both use Dallas iButton technology, but I’ve never had one of these other iLocks so I can’t say for sure if our key fobs will work. Thinking back, we may have sold a few key fobs to people who had this other system, not ours, and none have complained that their fob we sent didn’t work. So if you still have the instructions for programming a new key into your iLock from the other defunct company, our key fobs MAY work. But I can’t guarantee it.
If you have one of these systems in your car and no longer use it, let me know. Especially if you still have the instruction manual. We might like to get ahold of one so we can help other users of this system program new keys or even writeup instructions for swapping out our system for theirs. Contact me at support@cc-concepts.com if you do.
