The auto-locking system that engages after you wander 200 meters away from your house also works fine, and is arguably more reliable with DoorSense in the mix. Installation is smoother than ever and guided by video clips in the app, the app is easy to use and keeps meticulous records of lock access, and the owner has infinite control over how additional keys are given out, with fine-grained control over access times and the ability to set keys that expire. Other tweaks have given August a further leg up on the competition.
He new August locks can now tell you not just whether the lock is engaged, but if the door is ajar. While the app crashed repeatedly during DoorSense configuration and sometimes reported the wrong door status (ultimately requiring recalibration), again I will chalk these issues up as beta growing pains for now.
Once calibrated, DoorSense mostly worked well, both indicating the door status through the app and suspending auto-locks until the door was closed. Alternatively, you can hollow out the jamb and embed the sensor inside it, but this may be asking a lot of a homeowner who in all likelihood choose August because he didn’t want to deal with drilling holes in his walls. If mounted externally, this is a real eyesore on the door jamb.
AUGUST SMART LOCK 3RD GEN VS 4TH GEN PRO
The August Smart Lock Pro now comes bundled with the August Connect Wi-Fi Bridge.ĭoorSense unfortunately requires extra hardware in the form of a magnetic sensor that attaches to the door and must be placed adjacent to the lock. In fact, the app updates to show you that the door’s ajar, too, which can be very handy on its own. With DoorSense, the auto-lock won’t engage if the door has been left open. The primary benefit here is found if you turn on auto-locking, in which a timer automatically engages the lock after it’s been unlocked for a certain amount of time.
August has attempted to remedy this by the inclusion of DoorSense, which is designed to tell August whether the door is ajar or not. One of the biggest issues with all smart locks is that while the lock may know if it is engaged or not, it doesn’t necessarily know whether the door is open or closed. Instead, the Connect device, which hasn’t changed, must still be permanently plugged in to a nearby electrical outlet. While that’s handy, it remains disappointing that August didn’t integrate the Connect directly into the lock itself. The significant change is that the August Connect-a separate device that bridges the Bluetooth-only lock to your Wi-Fi network and myriad smart home hubs, including Alexa and Wink-is now included in the box and does not have to be purchased separately. Let’s start with the big gun, the new August Smart Lock Pro, which has a near-identical design to the original August lock, a silvery hockey puck that is decidedly contemporary in design. The company had previously announced an Alexa skill that allowed you to lock its smart deadbolts with voice commands.
If you also own the August Doorbell Cam and an Amazon Echo with a display (either the Echo Show or the Echo Spot), you’ll be able to unlock your August smart lock with a voice command that includes a PIN while you’re watching the video feed from the doorbell camera on the Echo’s display.
AUGUST SMART LOCK 3RD GEN VS 4TH GEN UPDATE
The new August Smart Lock Pro now supports Wi-Fi, HomeKit, Bluetooth, and Z-Wave Plus.Įditors’ note: August announced an update to its Alexa skill on May 10, 2018.
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