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Smart Home Automation: Impressive Integrated Smart Door Lock and Video Doorbell

Smart Home Automation: Impressive Integrated Smart Door Lock and Video Doorbell

Best part of the fingerprint sensor system, is that it’s really fast, much faster than a keypad.  And the lock itself opens a good bit faster than my last couple of locks, once it starts.  So, from the time I touch the sensor, until the time I’m swinging the door open is normally under 2 seconds! (3 if I’m juggling packages).  Try that, keypad users!

I really like that one App handles everything,  And it just works well. I’ve answered the door, talking to a delivery guy, while I was 1000 miles away. It’s great that I can easily record all the activity in the front of my door using its motion sensor (whether the bell is rung or not), while I’m away on a two week vacation, while it’s all stored on a memory card in its Wi-Fi controller. Various basic cloud storage charges for storing video run from about $5/mo to $10/mo depending on the company.  Mid-priced is Google’s Nest basic for $8/mo. I prefer Free!

As a door lock, this Lockly is my favorite door lock so far.  Having the combination of features all in one device is great.  The speed and ease of the fingerprint sensor, just blows away any of the code based locks we’ve reviewed over the years. 

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