Smart locks are a powerful way to enhance your front door security, and few products are as popular as the Yale Assure Lock 2 and August Wi-Fi Smart Lock. Both are quite expensive (carrying price tags ...

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The $130 Yale Approach is the company’s first retrofit smart lock. It will start out with Wi-Fi, but a Matter-over-Thread upgrade is promised. The $130 Yale Approach is the company’s first retrofit ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The new Yale Keypad Touch brings biometric access to August’s retrofit smart locks for the first time — but at a ...

They're from August, Eufy, Kwikset, Schlage, Yale, and more A Yale smart lock (left) and one from August. By Daniel Wroclawski One huge advantage that you get with smart locks vs. conventional ...

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How we keep our properties secure really hasn’t advanced that much in thousands of years. According to Pliny the Elder, the first key was used by Theodorus of Samos in the sixth century BC. Today, ...