Up until now, only worked with standard deadbolts. Not anymore. The startup today announced a $100 August Smart Lock Mortise Kit for integration with mortise-style deadbolts. The $229 August Smart ...

This budget retrofit kit is a less exciting, but reasonable, way to turn any deadbolt into a smart lock. Like the August Smart Lock, the Kwikset Kevo Convert is designed to convert your existing ...

The Alfred DB2S is a standard deadbolt smart lock that can recharge via infrared beams, but the Wi-Charge wireless charging kit won’t be available through retail channels at launch. The Alfred DB2S is ...

Yale and August Home have each brought several smart locks to market over the years. When Yale's parent company Assa Abloy acquired August in late 2017, we wondered what it meant for the future of ...

Igloohome’s latest revision looks better than ever, but our installation experience was so painful we just can’t recommend it. It’s round three—or, round 2.5, anyway—for Igloohome’s upstart smart ...

So, you’ve decided the time has come to upgrade the first layer of your home’s security—the deadbolt lock on your door—to a smart model. The next step is to decide if you should replace the entire ...

The Alfred Interconnect Lock Kit delivers an industry-first breakthrough that transforms any Alfred smart deadbolt into a code-compliant interconnect lock with single-motion egress functionality. This ...

Smart locks are one of the more popular types of HomeKit accessories, and Yale's Assure Lock SL deadbolt announced last October is one of the more interesting options on the market today. It's ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — Home security is important to all of us. Sunday on 13Sunrise, Pat from Sullivan Hardware and Garden said many of our homes are less secure than we think. That's because deadbolt lock ...

Many of the deadbolt locks tested by Consumer Reports lack the level of protection you might want or expect. In our labs, a few well-placed kicks or a couple of minutes under assault from a cordless ...

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