Yale Real Living: Yale's Real
Living deadbolt lock comes with Z - Wave and Zigbee connectivity, meaning its a great choice for those that want to use their lock with other smart home devices.
Not exact matches
Deadbolt locks on exterior doors make
life difficult for burglars and New Jersey beats the national average of 95.9 %.
After finding only dated or lukewarm reviews for Yale's Touchscreen
Deadbolt and Yale Assure
lock, we chose not to add either to our test group (we had previously tested a Real
Living model).
For example, the Yale Real
Living Assure
Lock Touchscreen
Deadbolt has both a keypad and a key; however, Yale also makes models that are key - free, meaning they only have a keypad.
The Yale Real
Living Assure
Lock is a Bluetooth - only device that wholly replaces your
deadbolt.
If there's more than a couple of people in the house, a coded
lock such as the Yale Real
Living Deadbolt might be a better choice.
We've reviewed the Kwikset Premis, the August Smart
Lock, the Kwikset Kevo, the Kwikset Kevo Convert, the Poly - Control's Danalock the Yale Real
Living Touchscreen Z - Wave
Deadbolt, the Schlage Sense and the Schlage Camelot Touchscreen
Deadbolt.
That's a disappointing move, and a bit of a head scratcher given that competing products like the August Smart
Lock and the newly announced Yale Real
Living NFC
Deadbolt offer similar features without charging any sort of service fees.
Most Schlage, Kwikset and Yale
locks, including the Schlage Sense Bluetooth
Deadbolt, the Schlage Camelot Touchscreen
Deadbolt, the Yale Real
Living Touchscreen Z - Wave
Deadbolt and the forthcoming Nest x Yale
lock all have touchpads.
Another general concern is battery
life, but this will vary significantly (for all smart
locks) based on how much you
lock or unlock your door, the quality of the batteries you're using, if your
deadbolt occasionally sticks and requires extra effort from the built - in motor, and even the weather — colder temperatures can hurt battery
life.
Neither the Yale Real
Living Lock nor the Schlage Touchscreen
Deadbolt offers any connectivity on its own, you have to connect them to the cloud using a separate hub such as SmartThings.
Thanks to the free Android app (available to users through the Google Play store and Apple users through the App Store), owners of this
deadbolt can create and delete up to 30 unique access codes from their phones, schedule access codes so guests can enter only at specified times, update their
lock's settings, and check on battery
life.