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Maintaining a truly smart home takes more than simply connecting to a digital assistant and a voice-activated speaker. Smart locks—or smart deadbolts, more accurately—streamline your daily routine and ...

When was the last time you thought about how secure your home is? It’s a chore that probably falls to the bottom of your to-do list, but taking a proactive approach to security may help avoid unwanted ...

Your front door lock is your first line of defense from the outside world. It’s also the piece of home security you use more than any other. If your lock hasn’t been replaced in a while—or if it’s the ...

Many of the deadbolt locks tested by Consumer Reports lack the level of protection you might want or expect. In our labs, a few well-placed kicks or a couple of minutes under assault from a cordless ...

Charlotte Pfahl, 68, prefers using an old-school mechanical key to access her New York City apartment. So when her landlord modernized the building and installed a smart lock in 2018, she and several ...

When people ask for recommendations for home security, one of my first suggestions is always a smart lock. Sure, your door already has a lock, probably a basic deadbolt, but it could be upgraded in so ...

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Smart entry locks are the biggest improvement to home security since the lock-and-key system was invented more than a thousand years ago. In many cases, smart locks dispense with physical keys ...