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August announces new suite of smart doorway devices back in October 2015 a new smart lock of doorbell camera and connected keypad are all designed to give you full control of your doorway they were supposed to hit the market in December 2015 with the latest hit apple's homekit smart home platform held things back in the lock of adorable camera company says there's light at the end of the tunnel though and it expects to finally receive full sign-off from Apple in a week or two you'll be able to buy each device individually once they ship the lock for 230 bucks the doorbell cam for 200 and the keypad for 80 if you have all three you'll be able to open and close your door lock remotely monitor and communicate with anyone at your door via the doorbell cam and use the keypad to give a discreet access to anyone you want to share a code with we like the original august smart lock when we reviewed it back in February 2015 it looked good it had the most unencumbered policy around assigning digital access keys to other smartphone owners and it generally worked pretty well as this new suite embraces the HOME key ecosystem it could become a flagship product for Apple's smart home plans we'll need to see not only how well it works but also how well all the various pieces integrate with the whole kit platform and the other smart home products in it we hope to find out as soon as it ships which should be early this year you