Wyze’s Budget-friendly Smart Lock Gets A Wi-fi Upgrade Without A Price Increase

The Wyze Lock Bolt v2 has an improved fingerprint scholar and a caller solid touchpad. | Image: Wyze

Wyze has announced a caller type of its physics doorway fastener that features Wi-Fi, allowing it to beryllium controlled remotely from anyplace utilizing a mobile app aliases sound commands done Amazon Alexa aliases Google Assistant.

The original Wyze Lock Bolt is presently featured successful our smart fastener buyer’s guide arsenic nan “best fund smart(ish) lock,” but pinch only Bluetooth connectivity, its functionality is limited. With nan summation of Wi-Fi, nan caller Wyze Lock Bolt v2 offers much elasticity and bid of mind arsenic you tin guarantee it’s locked while distant from location aliases show who’s coming and going. It’s priced nan aforesaid arsenic nan original astatine $79.98, too, and is now available done nan company’s online store.

The Wyze Lock Bolt v2 carries guardant an integrated fingerprint reader, which nan institution says tin place users and unfastened nan doorway successful astir half a second, while biometric information is stored locally connected nan instrumentality for added security. The keypad buttons connected nan original person been replaced pinch an illuminated touchpad covered successful a scratch- and smudge-resistant furniture of tempered glass. The fastener tin shop up to 50 unsocial entree codes and create single-use passcodes for guests that expire aft a preset magnitude of time, and you tin obscure nan codes by tapping a bid of other digits earlier and aft nan correct one.

Battery life maxes retired astatine up to 8 months, somewhat little than Wyze’s original Lock Bolt, which tin run for up to a year. There’s a USB-C emergency larboard that tin beryllium utilized to temporarily powerfulness nan fastener and summation introduction should nan batteries dice while you’re away, and Wyze includes nan action to usage a beingness cardinal to unlock it if you don’t person a powerfulness slope and USB cablegram handy.

There’s a customizable siren that will sound if personification attempts to tamper pinch nan Lock Bolt v2 aliases if location person been excessively galore unsuccessful attempts to unlock it. If you besides ain a Wyze video doorbell, you tin merge nan 2 devices and unlock your doorway straight from nan doorbell’s livestream.