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today we're gonna review this high-tech key coded Bluetooth smart lock hopefully it's a bit more secure than the last lock we tested I'm going to show the installation on it to huge thanks to LastPass for sponsoring this video let's get started this residential door lock claims to be pretty intelligent but today we're gonna find out how smart it is ourselves with little installation and of course a review from the inside the first component out of the box and the only portion on the outside of the door is the keypad which appears to have a solid metal construction and a couple internal Phillips head screws holding the locking mechanism in place the other check of the housing is what goes on the inside door with the metal mounting plate and three screws holding the guts to the metal exterior now we don't have to worry much about this half of the lock because an intruder wouldn't have access since it's inside of the door but we're still gonna take it apart anyway the guts come out cleanly enough we have a rubber button used to control some of the alarm programming and the internal for double-a batteries it's nice that everything is self-contained and no exterior power is needed it makes installing this lock and much more do-it-yourself project the large black circle in the center of the board is the alarm speaker so if the lock does fill itself being forced opened or jiggled it can blast a shrill high-pitched car alarm sounding noise into the house so far so good it seems secure there is a series of clips holding a motherboard to the plastic backing once that's pulled away we see a bunch of white gears and the electric motor in charge of locking and unlocking the lock whether it's from the correct key code being entered or wirelessly with the integrated smart home system or phone app which will test out in a second for reference this is the little motor inside of the smart padlock that I opened up in a previous video there's a big size difference the residential door lock is much larger and much more powerful I'll put the motherboard back in and plot the components back into the solid metal housing and get all the screws back in place I'll get the batteries installed and you can see here how the two parts sandwiched together on either side of the door to make a working lock one last look inside the exterior portion of the lock the one that's most vulnerable and we see that even under the plastic keypad it's just metal if an intruder were to rip off the electronic keypad portion they would have no access to the inside of the lock just metal and as you can hear the thing is pretty solid let's see what happens when we install it installation is pretty easy I'll just remove the two screws holding the old unintelligent lock in place and then pull the deadbolt itself out from inside the door the new bolt can be adjusted depending on the size of the hole mine needs to be fully extended and the whole thing can be screw into the door the front housing gets set into the door and the solid metal plate gets placed on the back and the two beefy screws hold your two parts together I made sure to pull the keypad display ribbon through the slot in the middle plate so I could plug it into the computer guts on the backside of the door the computer guts and the alarm portion slide on to the metal plate easy enough there's a little hole for the locking mechanism and then there's two screws one large screw in the center and a little guiding screw up at the top the speaker hole might look screwable but definitely don't stick anything in there it is a speaker and can be damaged everything seems to be working so far to program the lock there is a super important six digit number on the back side of the instructions as well as written inside of the lock and that number is used to program the thing there is an app directly from the company dedicated to the operation of the lock but we'll talk about that in a second so from a hardware perspective everything on this lock is working super smoothly it only took me about ten minutes to install and all of the coding and programming internally in the lock is working great from a hardware perspective huge thumbs up from a smart lock perspective I'll get to that in a second the nice thing about this lock is that it can hold thirty different key code combinations which is kind of like instead of having to remember a key every time you leave the house you just remember your simple password works great for people who are running Airbnb ease who have big families you can reset the internal codes whenever you want you can lose your keys you won't lose your passwords lately it seems like we need passwords for everything whether it's the latest social media apps online platforms are now your doorknob it's getting hard to remember every single one of them LastPass does have a solution for that it is a free app I'll link it down in the video description that can remember all of your passwords for you if you're like most people you probably have one super simple password for everything which is probably not the most secure way to do things LastPass has the ability to generate and remember for you super long so your passwords and all those passwords are encrypted so only you can access them not even LastPass employees can see what they are because of that encryption it is free to everyone but for an extra two bucks a month you can get one gigabyte of encrypted storage only you can access and see those files that are stored in your drive it has been downloaded by millions of people so you don't have to take my word for it whether you just don't want to remember your passwords anymore or you actually want the secure long encrypted passwords there's always that link right in the video description huge thanks to LastPass for sponsoring this video back to the lock though from a smartlock perspective from me it gets a massive thumbs down like I said before everything on the lock works perfectly the hardware is great it can't be physically hacked from the outside but I was never able to connect my phone to the lock I'm currently using a galaxy s 8 and it would never connect even after a master reset on the lock itself and I wasn't able to unlock the lock with my phone which is part of the bare-bones smart lock capabilities you would expect from this piece of hardware at first I thought it was just me or maybe my lock was defective but after reading the reviews it is a widespread issue of this lock not being able to connect to cell phones it's a big deal and you would think that the lock would be smart all by itself but if you wanted to connect it to like an Amazon Alexa or like a smart home automated system you have to have something called a hub which actually connects it via Wi-Fi so by itself it's not smart at all and the thumbs-down is the price I paid massive smart lock pricing and receive something that has no smart lock capabilities so for a keypad lock it's great for a smart lock it's not so great I will continue my search for a smart lock better than this one if you have any questions go ahead and leave them down in the comments and huge thanks to LastPass for sponsoring this video I will leave that free link in the video description and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around