Powered by four double AA batteries, Yale’s designers have done their best to hide the guts of the lock in a suitably premium housing – but there’s a lot of kit to pack in. Sadly, while the keypad delivers a touch of modernity to the outside of your front door, you won’t escape having to hang a huge lock and automatic turning mechanism to its rear. Its design is consistent with newer devices in the Yale family, like the Assure Lock SL, but thanks to a slimmer, taller form factor, it’s certainly more elegant than its predecessors. A sleek, but comfortingly heavyweight touchscreen keypad replaces the traditional key mechanism on the door front. Thankfully, the lock itself is beautifully designed and finished.
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SimpliSafe now offers live home monitoring with new Smart Alarm Wireless Indoor Security CameraĪqara launches U100 smart lock with full Apple HomeKit support The lock and its accessories are well packaged, but the unboxing lacks the premium experience you anticipate from Nest. While the Nest X Yale Lock outer carton certainly advertises both sides as equals in the creation of the device, opening the box reveals a heavier Yale influence. Stylish exterior, poor design and components lack Nest’s usual polish That move positions Nest and Yale as indirect competitors, and this collaboration a somewhat curious proposition. Most notable is that Yale’s parent company, Assa Abloy, made the decision to snap up smart lock specialist August, whose third-generation Smart Lock impressed us greatly last year. But two and a half years on from the reveal, the smart lock marketplace looks very different.
You could say that the delays in getting the lock to market are beneficial – there are now a plethora of devices that it can play with. Simple to operate, with surprisingly fewer features than competitors.Stylish exterior, poor design and components lack Nest’s usual polish.
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