Kwikset’s newest smart lock gets almost everything right

Kwikset’s Halo Select astute lock.

Legacy fastener shaper Kwikset has been producing innovative smart locks since 2013, erstwhile it released the archetypal touch-to-open lock, the Kwikset Kevo. The institution followed that up with the motorboat of 1 of the first key-free locks successful 2016, 1 of the earliest Apple HomeKit locks, and 1 of the archetypal fingerprint-only locks. Kwikset has not shied distant from caller tech.

Its latest model, the Halo Select ($279.99), is 1 of the archetypal full-replacement Matter-over-Thread astute locks. I've tested astir each astute fastener that Kwikset has made implicit the years, and this is its champion yet. It's super-responsive with coagulated features and wide astute location compatibility. It's conscionable excessively atrocious that utilizing Matter means giving up its champion feature.

The Halo Select is simply a sleek-looking fastener that should acceptable successful with some accepted and modern doorway sets, though it has a modern slant. As Kwikset is 1 of 2 large residential fastener companies (the different being Schlage), you whitethorn already person Kwikset locks and grip sets connected your outer doors, meaning the Select mightiness acceptable successful with what you already person - thing fewer different astute locks do.

It offers 4 introduction methods: a keyway (which is rekeyable), a touchscreen k …

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