I appreciate your feedback @hevans1944. I was rather hoping that @StealthRT would return to this thread. He has been active on this forum, even up until this current month, so I hoped he would be willing to detail the results of his project for me or anyone else that might be interested.
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I know this is almost 2 years later, but did you ever happen to get this code working? And what did you do differently to get your up and going?
I've purchased the very same lock and am going down the path you've gone here. If you've got any more detail on your setup with your Esp8266, I would...