Yale’s latest smart lock covers all the smart home bases

Yale Assure Lock 2 review: a promising all-rounder

When auto-unlock works quickly enough, it’s quite magical, unlocking a few seconds before you get to the door. But when it doesn’t — about two times out of 10, in my experience — you end up standing in front of your door like a doofus for a few seconds waiting for it.The Assure 2 is significantly slimmer than the Assure SL.

That log includes who opened it and how — manually, remotely with the app, with a code, or using a smart home platform like Apple Home — and I can set up smart alerts to tell me when these things happen. The built-in Apple Home integration means I can add the lock to a Goodnight Scene or a Leaving or Arriving Automation. Leaving will lock the door , and Arriving can unlock the door. Although, unlike Yale’s auto-unlock feature, I have to tap a prompt on my iPhone or Apple Watch for the automation to run.Aside from being able to lock and unlock the door when you’re away from home, everything I’ve discussed so far pertains to the Bluetooth base model, with no extra networking modules.

This is likely some sort of connectivity issue; Garrett Lovejoy, VP of product management at Yale, says they’re working on a fix, and an update should be available next week. I’ll update this review if I see an improvement. At $260, the Wi-Fi version of the Assure 2 is expensive, although slightly cheaper than the previous Assure SL. But you might not need the Wi-Fi version.

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