Our Favorite Smart Lock Is On Sale For The First Time Today

Kwikset’s Halo Select smart fastener is $20 disconnected astatine aggregate retailers.

Setting up a smart location information strategy is important, moreover if you ne'er want to deliberation astir having to usage it. Thankfully, Kwikset’s Halo Select — nan best smart lock we’ve ever tested — is presently down to $259 ($20 off) astatine Amazon, Lowe’s, and The Home Depot, marking nan first clip nan fastener has been connected waste since its motorboat precocious past year. 

In her review, Verge reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy praised nan Halo Select for supporting 4 introduction methods: a beingness key, Kwikset’s app, a location-based auto-unlock feature, and a pin code. The fastener was besides easy to instal acknowledgment to nan elaborate instructions Kwikset provided, on pinch its intuitive mobile app. Out of nan box, nan Halo Select useful pinch Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Kwikset’s app via nan cloud. If you person a Matter controller and Thread separator router — specified arsenic a current-gen Apple TV, a caller Echo speaker, aliases an Eero router — you tin link to those platforms locally, and summation nan expertise to power nan fastener utilizing Apple Home aliases Samsung SmartThings. 

In our tests, utilizing nan Halo Select complete Matter importantly improved its artillery life. However, utilizing nan Halo Select via Matter meant giving up its auto-unlock feature, which worked reliably. Having your doorway unlock itself arsenic you’re stepping up to it is very convenient, but Matter doesn’t presently support auto-unlock, doorway sensing, fingerprint access, aliases facial recognition. The auto-unlock characteristic besides requires you to person Kwikset’s app unfastened connected your telephone successful nan background. Still, if you want a futureproof smart fastener that tin do almost everything (even if you person to make a reliable prime astir which features to prioritize), it’s our apical pick.

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