Yale Approach Smart Wi-Fi Deadbolt Retrofit Smart Lock, Unlimited Virtual Keys, App Remote Control, Keyless Entry - Black

The best for rentals/apartments that don’t allow you to swap out the deadbolt completely. Super easy to install and set up. The only downside for me was that if you don’t have the keypad, then any visitors you want to grant access to will have to download the app and create an account just to be able to lock/unlock the door while visiting. This issue was solved with the addition of the keypad though. So if you’re a person that has a lot of visitors I highly recommend purchasing the lock and the keypad.

Lock has been working great for about two months. I understand some people’s reviews talking about difficult set up because no instructions are included but if you’re even the slightest bit tech savvy, you’ll be fine. I purchased one of the refurbished locks.

This thing always loses connection, locking sound is too loud, coming from Wyze lock. It’s almost as if it’s an inconvenient because it takes too long to reconnect to the apps to unlock the door. So if you’re trying to get away from someone you would have to time it perfectly to unlock your door with because if you unlock too early, by the time you make it to the door, the door’s locked back if you wait till you get too close to the door, then you’d be standing in front of the door waiting for the door to unlock. I wouldn’t give it to some for free, that’s how bad it is.

I bought this because it "integrates" with simplisafe alarms. What they don't tell you is that requires Simplisafe monitoring (at least $9.99/month) and the only thing it does is lock/unlock/ignore based on the alarm status. It does not set or unset alarm. Also the linking process is not documented anywhere. Yale support didn't know at all how to do it. You have to call simplisafe support and the directions they give are full of single sign on bugs between the two companies. If I weren't highly technical that would have been blocked me.That aside this is the easiest smart lock system I've ever installed by a country mile. I have had more than a few. The keypad is excellent and responsive. Glad I paid a little more to have it. The lock itself looks good and doesn't make the outside of my house ugly. It also locks well even though the deadbolt isn't perfectly aligned. The last Yale/Nest lock I had would error out at the slightest friction.

Love the lock! I’ve been having it for a couple of months now and works great.

Some reviews say there are no instructions. WRONG! There is one little piece of paper with two QR codes. One walks you through the lock installation, and the second walks you through the bridge installation. It took around 30 minutes to complete the installation. Now when I approach the door, it unlocks. Once in the house, the door locks after a preset time that you provide. It can be unlocked through Alexa after providing a verbal unlock code. Through the bridge and the app, it can be locked or unlocked from anywhere you have cell or wifi service. Great buy!

Easy to install. Easy to set up app. Works well.

If you cannot get the firmware to update correctly do a factory reset then remove one of the batteries for 1 minute then put the battery back in. Reopen the app and the farmer should update.