Schlage Sense Smart Deadbolt with Camelot Trim in Aged Bronze (BE479 CAM 716)

Works great for a "just released" product. All I needed to install was a screw driver, took about 20 minutes. The lock looks nice, my wife actually approves (usually doesn't care for new tech items)! I had an August Smart Lock before this (wife didn't like) that I actually removed a month ago, this works a lot better. Easy to setup with an iPhone, just open the Schlage lock app and follow the commands. It's easy to add codes for the lock from the app and lock & unlock the door. Siri works great for locking & unlocking hands free. The lock works great away from home, takes 10-15 seconds to connect through the app, I have a new Apple TV for a bridge. I can check the status of the door from work or wherever, never have to worry about leaving the door unlocked. The motor that turns the bolt is quick and seems to have quite a bit of torque, definitely better than the August Smart Lock I had before. I really like that multitude of options for opening the door, you can use a key (like a regular deadbolt), the touch pad, or an iPhone. The lock has a couple features I haven't tried yet, like auto lock (after a set time), or an alarm that can sound if someone is trying to jar your door open. The only complaint right now was it took a few tries for the lock to update it's firmware, the first couple tries failed. I'm really happy with this lock and it has solid hardware and the software will only get better with time. This has been only available for a few days now and i'm impressed how well the app works to date. I'll keep updating my review if things change, thanks.

Excellent product. Made of very sturdy material. The physical installation was simple except if you choose to install the optional reinforcement plate to maintain the BHMA Grade 1 rating, which I did. You would then need a wood chisel to shave off the door frame to fit the reinforcement and strike plates. The Schlage app was a little moody and I had to reset the lock twice before the app recognized the unit. Getting my iPhone 6 onto homekit was simple as well my the wife's iPhone 5c. Had a lot of difficulty getting my daughter's iPhone 7 onto homekit. Ended up setting up her iPad Air instead which in turn automatically resulted in her iPhone working. Initially homekit would keep losing connection with our 4th Gen Apple TV, but that went away after I did a hard reset of my iPhone which is logged into the iCloud account connecting HomeKit. The lock itself works very well. I've read that the motor is loud but it's not any louder than the Kwikset Premis. If one follows the directions correctly and the alignment is satisfactory, the lock should not ever jam. I don't have any firsthand experience, but I've seen reviews on youtube that comment about the Kwikset locks jamming sometimes.

Easy to fit to standard location, easy to use, quality product

Works very well with gen. 4 Apple TV / Siri control (both while at home and away from home). In fact, when compared to my Lutron Caseta Wireless lighting fixtures, the Schlage Sense works much better! Siri control of the lock has yet to fail me--not even once. Keypad is also very easy to program in regards to adding / removing / changing user key codes. Installation was quick and painless. Lock feels secure, and it is responsive, dependable in a way that I heard the competition is not. It looks good, it works well, it's easy for my entire family to use, and the iPhone app is great. I was nervous to go with a smart lock but this one makes me happy I did.

As other reviewers have stated, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS!!! I bought 2 of these, one for the front door and one for the back door. I love the fact that I never have to worry if I left a door unlocked or not. The built in alarm works great, and you can adjust the sensitivity of it from the app. The auto lock feature works perfectly and has adjustable intervals (I set mine to 30 seconds). Adding user codes is a breeze with the app, however they all have to be the same length. This means that if you set your admin code to 4 digits, all your subsequent codes will have to be 4 digits. I am using 8 digit codes, but that's probably overkill. There is a max of 30 user codes, however you have to set them to each lock individually. A code programmed for your back door does not automatically get programmed into the front door or vice versa. This could be beneficial if you need a lot of codes and multiple locks as you could use 30 per device. Packaging was great. Install was a breeze and should be no problem for anyone who can read instructions and/or has installed a household deadbolt before. Only tool required for me (your results may vary) was a standard Phillips-head screwdriver. The setup with my phone was fine and went very quickly. Just don't manually test the lock before setting up the electronics (as is stated in the instructions). For me, when installing a deadbolt, its just second nature to test the action immediately after finishing the install. You shouldn't do that until you've gone through the electronic setup first. Once I finished setting everything up and pairing the app to the lock, I was prompted for a firmware update. No big deal except that I had to leave the app open on its update screen and my phone near the lock for about 10 minutes. Firmware update was simple and straightforward. I am docking a star for 2 reasons (both of which are probably more Apple's fault than Schlage's). First, I had to log in and out of icloud on both my AppleTV and iPhone twice to get the ATV to connect to the locks. Not a huge deal, but I think the ATV should be connecting just as easily as the phone. Once the ATV was connecting to them, I was able to get status and operate the locks from outside the bluetooth range. Second, there is a pretty significant lag (approx 30 seconds) when operating and checking status of the locks from outside BT range. This causes Siri to time out and tell you that she can't get a response from the lock. I hope a future firmware/app/homekit upgrade will resolve the latency issues. ***24 hour update*** I am convinced that schlage really needs to work on their app. It is not very well designed at all. Many times I just have to close the app and reopen it. The app arranges your locks by alphabetical order by the name used when first pairing the lock. So changing the name to reorganize them doesn't work. So if you're using more than one, make your front door "front" and the back door "rear" instead of "back." The app also doesn't detect homekit configs created by other apps. If you try to tell it the same name to use, it can't because its a duplicate. I am still having trouble with these locks responding through my AppleTV. I have not yet called schlage as I consider this a last resort. I am testing my "away" function simply by disabling wifi and BT on my iPhone. So far, I have cleared my homekit config, and set it up again from scratch. Logged into and out of icloud on every possible device in every possible order. And rebooted all devices in every possible order. The more I work with these, the more that I feel like they are designed to be keycode locks first and smart locks second. I am also giving schlage the benefit of the doubt as I'm pretty sure this is their first app development ever. This is getting a little frustrating, but I'll keep updating as I go. On another note, the built in alarm does work. I had to turn the sensitivity all the way up and give the door a good solid hammer fist to get it to sound. At least it doesn't go off when the pizza guy knocks or like those bad '80s car alarms that went off if you sneezed near them. Lastly, after a factory reset of my front lock, the thumb lever now has a lot of resistance in it where it didn't before. The rear lock is still fine. I'm not giving up, nor docking any additional stars... YET!