Ultimate Smart Lock Comparison: the 8 BEST on Amazon!
I compared some of the best smart locks and tested them hands-on. Let’s find the right one for your home!
Schlage Connect: https://amzn.to/3YP0AUf (🏆 Best long term)
Kwikset 916 Z-Wave: https://amzn.to/3qHlF6x
Schlage Encode: https://amzn.to/3sppq12 (🏆 Best for AirBnB)
Lockly Secure Pro: https://amzn.to/3KNoGZV (🏆 Best offline access)
ULTRALOQ Z-Wave: https://amzn.to/45GMbLZ
Aqara U100: https://amzn.to/45EMreB (🏆 Best fingerprint sensor)
Schlage Encode Plus: https://amzn.to/45Ay9vy (🏆 Best for iPhones)
Yale Assure 2 Z-Wave: https://amzn.to/3KSG13H (🏆 Best long term)
Nest x Yale lock: https://amzn.to/3r7cr3H
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0:00 Intro
0:27 Schlage Connect
2:03 Kwikset 916 Z-Wave
3:18 Schlage Encode
4:22 Lockly Secure Pro
5:33 ULTRALOQ Z-Wave
6:43 Aqara U100
7:53 Schlage Encode Plus
8:58 Yale Assure 2 Z-Wave
10:45 My picks
12:31 Out of control
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MUSIC
All of the music throughout is by Nihilore.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7LVYQYkdLFkkpJiGdkzX9K
Ending song is The End by EVA.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6UIs5b0zSXztIW5GHkCTkK
Are you an idiot? Keys are weak! They can pick most of these locks in a matter of seconds to minutes! I only want a smart lock with no damn physical key! Avoid locks with keys! Watch any video I watched them open many locks with a bump key or a pick from 5 seconds to a few minutes! NO KEYS! Don’t recommend locks with keys without that warning!
You want them to be loud. He gets that wrong, so i am assuming he doesn’t have one installed at his home. The newer Schlage is much more quiet and it’s not easy to audibly verify the door locked properly.
Ron Road
Almost perfect! I have to make some assumptions as to which locks REQUIRE having an online account.
I agree with skipping the camera locks. The camera belongs in the doorbell where they are never behind a screen/storm door, and are never recessed in doorways, as doors must be, so you have full range of view of people, packages, and can get intelligent motion sensing.
Now on to find the best doorbell with camera and intelligent motion sensing.
I like how the Schlage Encode Plus works, but I don’t want anything that requires being "locked" into their ecoprison and impossible for mixed households, nor requires mandatory membership dues, whether that be financial or becoming the commodity, and later be thrown under the bus when it is no longer supported. Voluntary participation for services rendered is fine. A lock with no physical key for backup is non-sense. What is already the near universal secure wallet and keys is the smart phone. They come with NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Internet, your calendar, email, for some states your driver’s license, passports are moving that way, access and ignition to few cars already, with the rest still requiring a subscription, your watch, alarm, stopwatch, navigation while driving or on foot, your Yellow Pages, recipes, books, learning videos, camera, video camera, call recorder/note taker, audio recorder, secure video chats, credit cards, replacing access cards, scanning barcodes, mirror, magnifying glass, E-Tickets, for all intents and purposes it is required for International travel for submitting your information at an AOE, flight schedules, your instant language translator by simply using the camera, and even translates telephone conversations or listening to someone speak in another language, and much more. It’s always on your night stand, on your desk, in your pocket, or in an armband at all times. 91-year-old grandmas in rest homes use them. There are zero reasons for not making a lock that uses NFC from phones and watches. If it’s safe enough for your credit cards, it’s safe enough for you door lock. A lost or stolen phone compromises nothing. Lost or stolen credit cards, checks, or keys grant access. They are all quickly replaced by restoring to a new device. It is a nightmare to replace everything with the compromise of keys or wallet.
Thinking people know where to draw the line between what they can and what they should automate, who view simplicity as a virtue, and who are not governed by "look at me, I’m smart" and making oneself indispensable to everyone using the system. (This is from someone highly-technical who doesn’t want to be enslaved by those with no interest in technology after implementation.)
Can you connect these locks to a home power source instead of battery?
I will say.. if using the single universal physical key is an important factor, all the Schlage smart locks can easily be re-keyed to an existing key as well. The tumblers can be removed just by the two screws inside the lock. Then take all the locks to local hardware or locksmith and they can re-key it for just a few bucks. Lowe’s does it for free even.
Hub needed? Z-wave? What does this mean do you need this to make the lock work
I would just get the SCHLAGE Encode over the SCHLAGE Connect because it is much quieter and modern. 3:46
If anyone is considering Nest x Yale: don’t!
When you use it you have maybe 30 days or so before it whines about low battery for the next 6 months. Only way around it is to use disposable batteries.
what help or additional features are provided if you match a Schlage connec with Winkhub2? thanks
Any one that support thread
If you have a regular lock and a deadbolt several inches above it, the deadbolt won’t be able to cover both lock holes, right? So you leave the regular knob in place and just put a smart lock where the old deadbolt was?
There is a big issue with the Yale Assure 2 Z-Wave:
"This product will not work outside of the U.S. or Canada."
I don’t know what someone has to fuck up when designing a smart lock to make it only work in two countries, but I guess they managed to do it.
WHERE’S THE PUN TALLY????
3:49 total coincidence?
Can someone tell me if any of these locks will open from a distance? I am in a wheelchair and I’m looking for a lock that will open if I cannot get to the door inside the apartment any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you.
Zwave module units all are "offline" user codes. The Zwave controller sends the info to the lock. That would be true for all the Zwave locks and only would matter how many users are allowed in the lock.
all smartlocks with shitty regular bypass keys that even a toddler can pick, are garbage.
THE NUMBER 1 FEATURE I NEED IS LOCK RELIABILITY 0 SERVICE CALLS IN FIRST FIVE YEARS. TELL ME ABOUT THAT. THANKS.
They should add Emergency SOS in case a robber breaks into your house at night.
Justyn Turnpike
Great video… Downvoted for the puns.
Nader Glen
Do not use Yale locks! I have an AirBandB and used these locks. They worked for a few months and suddenly stopped working the day a guest was checking in to my home. I was 2 hours away. I had to get a lock smith come out and charge $400 to break the lock. Yale refuses to help other than offering to replace the lock with another of their lock which I have zero confidence in
Also, Which of the Schlage locks have the longest battery life & why?
STAY AWAY FROM LOCKLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m on the second Ultraloq – after a warranty replacement. It is an absolutely terrible product. He’s right – the sensor is bad. But the WORST part is the battery. It’ll eat thru 4 AA batteries in a couple weeks. And after the batteries get low, then none of the features (including auto lock) work at all. Avoid!
Confusing for visitors well let them in. I don’t give visitors the code or keys anyways millions of people don’t run a air bnb lol 😂
Great reviews! And that little skit at the end, OPENED my mind to a new way thinking 😛
Another question. For the Schlage smart locks with a mechanical key, are the rekeyable to your other locks on your home? Also are any other of the smart home locks you reviewed rekeyable to a kwikset or Schlage? ;thanks
What is the best with camera and fingerprint? Philips now has one with palmprint sensor.. I wonder how good that works.
2:19 I had a Schlage locks before I replaced it with the Schlage Encode. I was able to use my old keys be replacing the Encode core with my old one. Maybe not as easy as Kwikset, but it’s doable.
Lol cool video
No interest in the Philips Wi-Fi Smart Door lock?
Bergnaum Plains
iPhone users 12:13 over $300 and not many 1 star reviews but they are scary and some of the 5 star reviews appear fake.
What about the Lockly video locks. Wan to ge one of those so I don’t have the ring and a lock.
Amazing information! Encode plus it is!
What happens if the WiFi goes out?😊Are you locked out?
I have the Ultraloq and the fngerprint sensor works fine every time.
Any recommendations on interior door handle locks (not deadbolt, to replace interior turn handles…)
hi im lanz
Skip the Lockly from anywhere you’d buy it as a "normal consumer". You want the 728Z version that has Z-wave. It’s a little hard to find but worth it. And the Locklys are LPL approved. 😂
What’s up with the smooth reflective glass displays on these? After a few uses you can see the greasy fingerprint marks. Might not give the order, but it’s certainly not ideal. Should have been a fingerprint resistant matte glass
Very cool video and informative video I enjoyed watching it. It would be cool to see a smart lock for the rental home-friendly to see your take on that point of view and more. 😃
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All of the links are locked away (🔒+1) in the description!
what about home assistant integration, let’ say you need one from home usage, I would want to know who just opened the door, for example if I enter home I would like to start playing a certain playlist on spotify, in your opinion which one of these locks can allow us to create these configurations on homeassistant?
Lock picking lawyer laughs about these reviews… Good locks?? Meh!
Grady Islands