August Smart Lock Pro (3rd Gen) + Connect Hub – Zwave, HomeKit & Alexa Compatible – Silver
$299.10
Last updated on July 15, 2024 1:00 am Details
- Works with Alexa for voice control. Wireless requirements – 2.4GHertz Wi-Fi network. Connect Wi-Fi Bridge included.
- Control and monitor your door from anywhere. Lock and unlock your door, control, keyless access and keep track of who comes and goes, all from your phone. Alexa can also provide notifications when your battery is running low so you can proactively replace them. Set up smart reorders through dash replenishment to make sure you always have replacement batteries when you need them.
- Be sure you’re secure with DoorSense. Only August has DoorSense to tell you if your door is securely closed and locked. Holding force: 600 pounds.
- Always know who is coming and going. Track activity at your doorstep with a 24/7 activity feed.
- Keep your existing lock and keys. Easily attaches to your existing deadbolt; Use your existing keys at any time. Requires 110 to 240 volts.
- Locks automatically behind you, and unlocks as you approach. Requires iOS (9.0 or higher) or Android (5.0 or higher) smartphones. Retrofit installation works with most standard single cylinder deadbolts.
- Biometric Verification Opt in to use your smartphone’s fingerprint or facial recognition as an added security verification before operating your lock remotely.
- Simple, DIY installation. Install in about 10 minutes with just a screwdriver.
- Simply speak to lock your door. Tell Alexa, Siri or the Google Assistant to control your August Smart Lock Pro + Connect.
- Certified Z Wave Plus home product. Works with Z Wave, the leading wireless technology for security and home control products.
Specification: August Smart Lock Pro (3rd Gen) + Connect Hub – Zwave, HomeKit & Alexa Compatible – Silver
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August Smart Lock Pro (3rd Gen) + Connect Hub – Zwave, HomeKit & Alexa Compatible – Silver
$299.10
Roberto Briones –
Me lo compré para el departamento donde vivo y me parece una excelente adquisición, lo malo es que no fue compatible con mi cerradura, así que tuve que comprar otra para poder adaptarlo, aclaro esto porque mi cerradura usaba llave tanto por dentro como por fuera, así que el metal que atraviesa la puerta estaba dividido a la mitad por cada cerrojo y se unían en el medio, esta cerradura necesita que dicho metal (desconozco el término correcto) esté sólo del lado de afuera de esa manera pueda atravesar el agujero y dejar espacio para adaptar esta chapa inteligente.
De todas maneras no fue mucho problema, la nueva cerradura que compré era de llave por fuera y mariposa por dentro me costó 200 pesos y después de eso fueron sólo 15 minutos lo que me tomó para tenerla funcionando.
Otra ventaja es que trae incluido un sensor de si la puerta está abierta o cerrada, independientemente de si está con llave o no, este sensor se tiene que instalar con tornillos que incluye, pero también tiene unos fuertes magnetos y en mi caso el marco de la puerta es de metal así que no tuve que hacer agujeros ni nada, sólo pegarla con el imán.
Es compatible con Alexa en México pero por el momento sólo permite cerrarla y preguntarle si está abierta o cerrada, pero no permite abrirla aún por temas de seguridad (imagínense que alguien grita desde afuera “Alexa, abre la puerta” y entre a su casa sin permiso). Así que no se preocupen por este tema.
Amazon Customer –
The setup was straight forward but the back plate and winglets need to be aligned at the atomic level to ensure they close smoothly. Took me forever to get that right.
The worst part of all this is the HomeKit integration. There is no feature to unlock the lock while at home using Siri on a HomePod it must be either an iPad or iPhone. I can understand when I’m not home because an intruder could just yell out “Hey Siri” through an open window…but I’m home and it still doesn’t work.
Lastly if you run an automation in HomeKit to unlock when you get home, it still requires you to authorize the running of the automation manually on your iPhone. It defeats the entire purpose of an automation.
The “smart lock” has a long way to go before it’s even close to being considered a smart device. For now it’s still a dumb lock.
Lawrence –
Wanted to give a few thoughts about my recently purchased August smart lock. For background, I’m running this lock in a decidedly “smart” house. Two Nest thermostats, a harmony hub, myQ garage, and 25+ LIFX connected lights.
Pros:
+ Super brain-dead easy install. Took less than 10 minutes with just a philips head screwdriver. The video walkthrough on the app makes it really hard to mess up.
+ HomeKit integration is badass, and works flawlessly for me. There’s something soo cool tellling Siri on my cellular Apple Watch to lock/unlock the door, and it’s done. This works from inside/outside my house, on wifi, cellular, doesn’t matter.
+ Auto-locking is customizeable and works great. Don’t have to fish my key out to lock the door every time I take the puppers outside for a potty break.
Neutral:
* Doorsense, the little nubbin that you attach to your door frame that tells you if the door is open/ajar, was really easy to install and setup. So far though, doesn’t seem like a must-have feature.
* Remote unlock with the included August Connect works fine, no issues so far. Takes a little bit longer than I’d like to actually connect to the lock when I’m out and about though.
* a little bit pricey at $279 retail, but c’est la vie, yolo, and fomo
Cons:
– Auto-Unlock is finicky and unpredictable. It doesn’t work when you expect it to. This is the only reason why I gave it 3-stars instead of 5. The way it’s supposed to work is that you set your home location in the august app, and this puts a 200-meter radius around that spot (about a couple city blocks). When you (and your phone) leave this area, the lock enters “auto-unlock” mode, and is supposed to automatically unlock the next time you enter Bluetooth range (maybe 15-20 feet) or seemingly whenever you hop on to the same wifi network as the lock. Obviously, you have to keep Bluetooth on, and not force-close the app for this to work. The app will even send you a push notification when it detects that you’ve left your home area, and that the lock has entered auto-unlock mode. The problem is that it just doesn’t work 100% of the time. I’ve had instances where I did exactly as I was supposed to (left home area, got push notification saying lock was in auto-unlock mode, kept Bluetooth on and app active), and the lock doesn’t unlock even though I’m literally standing on the other side of the door. I’ve also had times when the lock won’t detect that I’ve left my neighborhood, and thus never enters auto-unlock mode in the first place. No rhyme or reason to it. On twitter, August says they’re constantly tweaking the algorithm of auto-unlock, so there’s hope that this will get better. Also, the home radius should be way less than 200-meters! I don’t live in a mega-mansion/ranch, and I shouldn’t have to wander a couple city blocks for the lock to know I’m not at home.
Other random thought(s):
* How badass would it be if the lock could use my cellular Apple Watch to auto-unlock??
TLDR: Easy install, auto-locking is awesome and customizable, HomeKit integration is sweet, but auto-unlocking algorithm needs more time in the oven. If “hey Siri unlock the door” from my Apple Watch didn’t work as well as it did, I’d probably return the lock.
*update 11/8/17* – upgrading to 3.5 stars
– Picked up the new iPhone X last week. Absolutely love this phone. Can you imagine if August put FaceID in their lock?? The future will be amazing (and a little creepy). Oh yeah, the iPhone X works fine with the August lock, no issues at all.
– August issued a firmware update to the lock about a week ago (1.5.21). Auto-unlock feels like it is getting better at recognizing when I’ve arrived home. Still not 100% reliable. It sometimes takes too long for the lock to recognize that I’m standing outside (sometimes up to 5-10s). But the frequency of it working as it should is going up! Good job August, keep it coming!
– If you have an iPhone, add the August widget to your lock screen. This gives you one-touch lock/unlock capability. And if you have the new iPhone X and Face ID, your phone will automatically unlock for you as soon as you look at it, so unlocking your august lock is one swipe + one tap away.
– Not having to fish my key out every time I leave/come home truly is a luxury. Auto-locking works perfectly every time. And even with the ongoing auto-unlock finickiness, I feel confident enough in the lock that I removed my house key from my key ring (only the car key and mail key left!). And pulling out my phone and hitting unlock on the widget screen is still faster and more convenient than fumbling with a physical key in the dark.
*update 5/25/18* – upgrading to 4.5 stars
– August keeps improving the lock. Recently issued an update that makes remote connection almost instantaneous now. You don’t have to manually connect to the August Connect any more either – it just does it automatically. Very cool.
– Auto-unlock continues to improve. Still wish it would enter auto-away mode much sooner! One little quirk that I did not mention in the original review is that even when I enter the house from the garage on the other side of my home, the August Lock will auto-unlock. It does this reliably and consistently, even though I don’t really want it to. I believe this is called out in the support documents, so it’s not really a bug. It doesn’t really bother me at all though, since it will always auto-lock itself after a few minutes anyway. Probably just uses the battery a little bit more is all.
– Guest access keys work great so far!
– Speaking of battery, I get about 3 months of use out of 4xAAs. I switched to some rechargeable eneloops, and seem to be getting a bit more use this time.
*update 6/25/18* – upgrading to 5 stars
– August updated the lock firmware again, and this time, it allows me to use the iphone widget to directly unlock the lock. Before, hitting the unlock button on the widget would take you to the app, and you had to tap the screen again to unlock the lock. It’s so much faster now!
– Still wish the away-mode radius could be smaller, but maybe it’ll get there soon with how regularly August seems to be improving the lock!
– Having had the lock for the better part of a year, I feel confident enough about it to recommend it to family now. Friends and family who have seen/used it have also commented on how much easier it is to use than a regular key.
fatima alkenane –
It is very nice but you have to know this before buying it. I live in an apartment and it does not work when we leave the house it will not lock by itself as a sensor. We have to either lock it from our phone or use the key to lock the door. After one month of use one time I got a call from my husband at 1 AM telling me that the door is jammed and I had to re-open the entire thing and use metal to unlock the door and get him into the house. We reinstalled it back in and it seems to be working OK so far. It definitely helps when you don’t have the key on you that you can open it and unlock it from your phone and you can keep track of who is coming in and out of your house as well as you can give access to visitors if they’re staying with you instead of making a key for them. I’m guessing every technology has its good and it’s bad
Amazon Customer –
I’m sure this lock is fantastic when fitted to a american dead bolted door, however hear in England it’s a bit more effort, the internal mechanism of the dead bolt has to conform to a none European design and it is recommended to work on a single lock only which most new high security doors have more than one bolt which secures the door
Terence S –
I have an Australian Lockwood deadlock currently on my door a i live in Australia. The tail is short in the deadlock unlike the long one shown in the simulation and does not say how to manage such locks. Basically only works on single cylinder deadlocks not double cylinders which most Australians use. I guess this product is built specifically for common American deadlocks.
Victor –
I have no issues with the Lock itself, the issue I have is with the Wi-Fi Bridge.
I purchased this because I rent rooms through Airbnb in my home. I also bought the keypad. I like that I don’t have to hand out a physical key and I have a record of who enters or leaves. As you can see in the picture, even though it states that the Wi-Fi bridge can be 10 feet away, I had to run an extension cord and mount it right next to the door. I have double opening doors, but that should not make a difference. I will eventually buy something to cover the cord. I can live with that. My major concern is that the door will unlock if I am walking by my door either talking on my cell phone or I just happen to have my cell phone in my pocket. This has happened twice when someone knocked on the door. As I approached the door to see who it was, the door unlocked because I had my cell phone on me. While I am at home, it should not automatically unlock the door. I may not want the door to unlock if I don’t know who the person is. This needs to be fixed!
James B. –
Before buying this lock, I did a lot of research. I looked at (e.g., read the articles, specs, and user reviews) August, Schlage, Kwikset, and Yale. And I thought hard about what my family would and would not be willing to do on a daily basis. I slowly realized that for my wife, who has a borderline intolerance for most tech, this lock needed to be functionally invisible, easy in every way, and not too alien or unfamiliar. For my kids, who are tech savvy in that way all kids are, I needed this lock to have an app that installed and worked with little to no fuss. For me, I was up for just about anything as long as I could check on the door’s status remotely, integrate it into my Smart Things hub, and unlock or lock the door as needed. The August Smart Lock Pro (purchased along with the Smart Keypad) has given me all those things. I’ve had it for a little more than a month, and I think I now know enough about it to write a fair review.
For my wife, the lock has basically dropped from her daily awareness (a very good thing). When she gets home, the door is unlocked by the time she gets to it. She lets the door lock itself whether entering or leaving. The only time she notices the lock is when she’s sitting in her car in the driveway talking on the phone and the autolock re-locks the door before she actually gets out of the car. I think she’s then either used her app or her key depending on whether she’s still talking on the phone. Then and only then does my wife complain about the tech. Otherwise, I think she actually likes not having to unlock the door all the time. She’s only used the keypad once, and it worked perfectly.
For my kids, the lock has also worked flawlessly. They never use their keys — they either use their phone or the Keypad to open the door. The lock has come in handy a number of times — when my daughter has had to get a ride from someone or when my son goes out and then gets home after we’ve gone to bed. I did have to give my son grief a couple of times for not closing the door completely — the door couldn’t lock. [I don’t remember if it notified me. I was home both times it happened and heard the warning beep from the lock when the locking process failed.]
We’ve also had folks working in/on the house get access to the house via the Keypad. They also had zero trouble getting in. And I can set the time of day and day of the week that the code they are using works and receive notifications when/if it has been used. There’s a weird glitch in the app that doesn’t show the right access time after it has been set and saved. And I admit that I haven’t tested whether the code works outside the timeframe. But part of the reason why I’ve been blase about not knowing is that we also have an alarm system, and I know the access times on that sucker works!
For me, the lock has worked well. I like the easy access. I like how the interior metal drum feels in my hand when I lock the door (mindful of the batteries, I tend to turn the drum manually when I get home). But the lock set-up is not perfect — I’ve noticed a few flaws. The August app requires you to turn on the internet — otherwise the default is bluetooth. So when you open the app to get remote access to the lock, you have to push a little button to activate the ‘net access. I’m not sure that makes sense (I imagine they are doing it for a reason but I don’t know what that reason is), and it makes for a clumsy and unnecessarily slow app experience. The app UI also seems very primitive and while not confusing, it could certainly be a bit more intuitive. The app integration with my apple watch is so crappy and slow as to be nearly useless. On rare occasions (twice over the past month), the door has not been open when I’ve gotten to it. Once it opened right after I took my phone out of my pocket but before I could do anything. The other time, I ended up opening the app and opening the door. Since I’ve gone in and out of the house a ton of times, these two occasions don’t bother me or even stand out much. And while the smart hub integration works, the interaction feels a little clunky (see, e.g., app) and somewhat limited.
The installation could not have been easier. The invitation/owner designation process was a little clunky, but manageable. So I can say that the whole upfront thing was pretty easy.
I’m not giving the August Lock Pro five stars because: (1) it’s still a little bit overpriced for what it is; and (2) for this much money, I’m expecting a Lexus/Cadillac-level app experience rather than the Fiat/Fiesta experience that is actually provided. If you’ve got the cash, a technophobe significant other, and some tech savvy, but zero-patience-for-hassle kids, then I would highly recommend this lock. And I would get it with the Keypad — not because you absolutely have to, but because the Keypad really completes the package for everybody.