Yale’s new Google Home smart lock is here — but it costs more thanks to tariffs

The Yale Smart Lock with Matter will be launched tomorrow, June 24, for $ 189.99 – $ 20 more than it was first announced in March. Yale tells freedom Increased prices due to the impact of definitions. The lock will be available on Amazon and Yale.

According to Yale, the new Smart Lock is designed for Google Home and Matter and was specially designed to supplement the Dor Mabs Nest award in Google Home. However, thanks to the connection that gives up the matter, it can work with many smart home platforms, including Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Samsung SmartThings and Home Assistant.

In briefing, I tell Catelyn Herman, Director of the First Product at Yale, freedom “The costs of customs tariffs and the total product costs led us to increase the price slightly.” All other features are the same when it was first announced, which is also when Yale confirmed that it had stopped the previous two companies: The X Yale Lock.

The new Yale Smart lock comes with black and white, and in the fall, gray. It has a 12-month battery life on 4 AAS, thanks to the connection of the advanced material, which must also provide faster response times compared to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth locks. It is one of the increasing number of fully replacement locks that use the new protocol; It includes others from KwikSet’s Halo Select, Level Lock Plus, Eufy E30, U-TEC’s Matter Lock and Yale’s Presure SL.

Many control methods are available, including inserting a icon on the back-light keyboard and using a key. You can lock it and the Jesse Stroh, the Google Home and Nest product manager, can now open the material locks using the Google Assistant.

Unlike the Nest X Yale lock that can disarm the Google Safe Security System, the new lock will not integrate with any safety system at launch, which is surprisingly given both Yale and Google’s relationship with ADT home safety company.

Unlike other YALE-including Line Sure Under 2- Yale Smart Lock does not have a non-automatic function, just an automatic lock. The lock also contains keyway, which the nest did not do. Hermann says Yale’s research shows that the pressure button and the option of key are what most people prefer. I am on the payment buttons, but I think these locks will look more elegant without the key hole.

The lock can work with any MATTER platform, but Stroh said it has “the best integration in the class with the Google Home platform.” He said he was able to get “a full advantage of the material backed by Google Home.”

These currently include creating and editing codes for lock, including guest symbols with specific tables. Stroh said, “You can also display the lock activity in feeding the home application activity and get the lock notifications and unlock it, adding that the current Doors Nes Nest bell will merge with the lock so that you can control it while displaying a feeding directly from the door bell.”

Based on my experience in using the locks that support the material in the Apple Home and Samsung SmartThings, you should also get these same features on these platforms as well. However, although it will work with other platforms, it is clearly designed to attract Google Home users. Although those looking to upgrade from the Nest X Yale lock may not be happy with the new appearance. White and gray color may match Google Google nest, but without the bronze or nickel satellite options that had a nest, it will not coincide with the current door devices.

One of the benefits of the new lock is that you can prepare it directly in the Google Home app (or the application of the other material) without the need to use the yale application. However, as a device device, it requires a control unit and the boundaries of the boundaries of the threads; Matter Matter should be one of Google if you want to use it in Google Home.

Without it, you can control the lock using the Yale Home app via Bluetooth, which is not provided by Yale Over-Ever-HRREAD Lock, Yale SL, did not offer it. But this only works when you are in the range, that is, at home, where there is no compact Wi-Fi network.

The Wi-Fi lock can work with the Connect Wi-Fi Bridge worth $ 90, but I will not only buy it to use this lock. It is better to pick up something like Google TV Stremer for $ 95 to get connected connection, Google Home Matter and a good flow box. I plan to review the Yale Smart lock soon.