Even better, while the Nest x Yale Smart Lock only supports Google Assistant, the August Wi-Fi Smart Lock supports Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Siri. With August, you can unlock your door through the app, via your smartwatch, or with your voice. One attempts to augment the existing key-and-lock experience while the other completely replaces the entire paradigm of a front door lock.

While it's not the end of the world to have to open an app on your smartphone to remotely unlock your door, it's also a limiting factor that the August Wi-Fi Smart Lock doesn't have. Sure, you can ask Google to lock your door remotely (or build it into Google Assistant Routines), but the only way to remotely unlock your smart lock is to open the app and tap the button. One of the biggest disappointments with the Nest x Yale Smart Lock is the inability to unlock it with your voice.

Nest does feature a simple one-touch locking mechanism by pressing the Yale lock on the top of the keypad, so while it's not automatic, it's certainly an easy way to lock the door on your way out. Nest has an automatic locking feature, but it only works one of two ways: either after a set amount of time (1, 5, or 10 minutes) or if you set your Nest app to away mode. That way, when you leave your home you can pull up the August app and see that your door is both locked and closed. That's why August has built-in a feature, known as DoorSense, that lets the smart lock detect when the door is closed, not just locked. What good is automatic locking if the door wasn't shut in the first place? When you're trying to get out of the house, sometimes it's a little too easy to forget to shut the door. Similarly, when you get close enough to home, the August app will send a signal to your smart lock and have the house unlocked and ready for you the moment you walk up to the door. Simply put, when you leave your driveway (or apartment hallway), the August lock can detect your location and automatically secure itself. August gives users the ability to designate whether or not their August Wi-Fi Smart Lock can automatically lock and unlock based on how close you are to your home. Let's start first with proximity locking. But August does two things that give it a significant leg-up on the Nest x Yale Smart Lock: proximity locking, and door open detection. 2.59 x 4.59 x 0.8 (outside), 2.78 x 7.08 x 2.02 (inside)īoth locks support virtual keys, guest keys, and other ways of locking and unlocking from right within their respective apps.

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