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Pros & Cons
Pros
The lock is compatible with apple homekit. It is located within 20ft of my wifi router. Works well from iphone in homekit, apple watch, apple tv and siri from any of those. I have another apple tv hub upstairs that acts as the secondary/backup homekit... Read More
Smartkey allows you to rekey the lock yourself to another smartkey compatible kwikset key. Door handling process is where the lock is suppose to figure out which way it lock and which way is unlock. I wish it could be better at that, but i chalk it up... Read More
The premis performs extremely well against picking or bumping. It responds quickly to commands and provides audible feedback when locking or unlocking. It looks great and is spouse approved.
I'm sure somebody is going to say make sure the latch is not jammed and everything works smoothly. Super easy to install and works great.
Cons
Kwikset homekit lock malfunctions often and is not easy to fix. Deadbolt is hard to turn past a certain point when locking and unlocking, and will only lock or unlock completely by brute force using the key or inside knob. If you use home kit app to l... Read More
The touch pad is somewhat unreliable both in its preciseness of the keys and in its reliability. Screen responsiveness seems to work on delay when it actually does work.
Returning to schlage and not looking back. This product is so janky it’s pricing hurts. This contemporary one is a complete piece of manure.
The premis doesn't work via "smart" means. That utopia falls apart when said “smart” lock fails to recognize correct battery life.
Highlights
Quality
I use it with the homekit app and it does everything i need including automations
Easy to install and setup however i have not programmed and numbers in it yet because we all have apple phones and just lock an... Read More
Keypad is tricky to interact with and sometimes takes two to three tries to unlock with the keypad
Competitiveness
This is a great lock and has worked with homekit without any problems
If you are familiar with installing door locks and homekit devices and are patient with reading instructions then you can do th... Read More
Not a terrible lock i have a different kwikset model that does not have smart features with apple
I’m upgrading from a kwikset aura bluetooth lock so the lock mechanism itself is the same and i didn’t have to switch the bolt out
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- This product had a total of 1,551 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 16 2023.
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Installation was a pain as the directions advance to quickly
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My door opens from the right and getting it to switch was not easy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also getting the wires inside the device was a nightmare as they kept getting in the way of the locking mechanism
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I eventually got it set right but what should have taken about 20 minutes took me almost two hours
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And that doesn’t include the nightmare of getting it to talk to my wifi
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There have been a couple of times that it was unresponsive in the apphomekit but i was still able to use the touch pad
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The installation is not that bad but then you get to this part called door handling process and this is where everything goes sideways
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I tried multiple times including what they call the manual mode where you have to press a button while sliding in the battery pack and then quickly unless and repress
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