Kwikset Convert Smart Lock Conversion Kit (Amazon Key Edition – Amazon Cloud Cam required), Compatible with Alexa in Satin Nickel

First I'd like to say, I pretty much have a smart home. There is n't much in my house that I cannot control with Alexa. I have about 15 Alexa devices from Dots to Echo Plus's all around my home and property. I can voice command or run routines on just about everything in my house. I can control my pool pump/pool heater/ceiling fans/lights/grow lights/sump pump/cameras/vetilation/roomba and much more. Some people even think that I may be a robot...LOL. But there was one thing I was always lacking.......the ability to lock and unlock my doors with Alexa. That is until now. I now have THREE of these on my three house doors and I could not be happier with them. I do not have the cloud cam. These are Zigbee devices and all you need to make these work is a Zigbee hub. But the Echo Plus has a Zigbee hub built in! So Once you install them and place them in learning mode, you use your Alexa app on your phone and search for new devices. That's it! The App will find them and now you can use them! You can even use them in routines! For instance, I Tell Alexa "Good Night" each night when I go to bed, then she shuts off all my lights, turns on my outside lights and Locks my doors! And sometimes she even reminds me to lock them! (New feature of Alexa called Hunches). She will notify me if I have left a door unlocked or a light on. This is great! I can lock or unlock my door from anywhere with my cell phone (or even my smart watch!) I can also voice command her to unlock my door, she will ask me what my PIN number is, then unlock! (You set your pin number in the Alexa app). So far, they have been working flawlessly. Installation was a bit tricky on the first one, but with anything new, you just follow the direction...after that, the other 2 were easy! Only about 10 minutes each from start to finish. This installs on the inside of your door, leaving the outside of your deadbolt unchanged. This is also nice as it keeps the look of your door/home the same as before. If you are looking for an upgrade to your smart home and to be able to lock/unlock your doors remotely or by voice, then look no further! No need to break the bank with $200+ devices, you really can't beat this price for such an item. I am very happy with these and believe me, I know smart homes.

Bought this after reading the reviews and seeing it could be set up without a cloud cam at first by linking it to Echo Plus. Long story short it DOES NOT link to echo plus! You need to get the cloud cam to go with it. So I went to order the cloud cam, and surprise surprise amazon isn’t selling it anymore. So basically this item is a fail! Amazon needs to read its own reviews of items and weed out false ones so people don’t get wrong items. And if you sell a product called “cloud cam edition” then you shouldn’t get rid of the required product for it to work. Update 7/21: I can’t believe amazon is still selling and pushing this lock since the no longer sell the cloud cam! I tried using an echo plus with built in hub to get it to work and no go. So now I’ve bought an echo plus and this lock and am extremely disappointed with both. Oh well lesson learned. Beware buyer, don’t but this.

I bought this product in order to be able to give access to by Condo to my girlfriend (plus it is a cool tech item, lol). While a failure in that regard, two months out I still have mixed feeling with regards to my purchase. To start off with the install was fairly complex, but doable for the average user. I had the misfortune/fortune, to have bought a different version of this lock previously (which is a different story) with the instructions only written in Spanish (which I unfortunately can't read). While that was frustrating it did make the installation of this lock fairly easy, as I learned from my previous experience from the other lock. Pairing it to the hub (which I bought separately) was fairly easy, and so was issuing the keys. Overall ascetically it's one of the best smart lock options out there, it's easy to use, allows for easy touch keyless entry, and for remote monitoring/key issuance. Those are the pros, the cons so far after two months (and why we are now back to physical keys at least as a backup) as I can tell are two, and for which I subtracted on star each. The first is that for a $200 purchase you shouldn't have to shell out another $100 for a separate hub to get remote non-Bluetooth access. At the $200 mark it already ranks as one of the more expense smart home purchases that you can make, and at $300 (with the hub) it's just ridiculous for what it is. The second and less serious (but perhaps even more annoying) is that they either need to pack better complimentary batteries with the lock or make you buy your own separately. About two weeks after I bought the lock, the lock began experiencing connectivity issues with the hub and a week or so later died. As I suspected, it was the batteries, and after replacing them with Amazon Basic rechargeable batteries (a good investment btw if you seriously into the smart home world as everything seems to run off of batteries) it started working again and I haven't had a problem since. At a $200 price point, in my opinion they should at least provide you with a decent set of batteries if they are going to bother. I also suspect, given the similarity of my issues to many of the reviews I read before buying, that Kwikset could eliminate a substantial number of complaints about their product and improve user reviews substantially by just providing purchasers with better batteries (and thus increase sales in the process). It's sad such an easy fix goes overlooked for an otherwise great product. Overall I would describe it as a potentially great product with lots of potential. At a better price point and with different batteries, it could be great.

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A little disappointed to find my NEW lock was actually opened and repackaged. Really should have made it clear it was a shop seconds, or opened pack. One adapter kit was repackaged in a sandwich ziplock bag. I have discovered i need and additional piece to make it work with the kwikset 985 deadbolt. Not sure if it was supposed to be in the box or not.

Using this with home assistant with Zigbee2mqtt. Reguarly it will just no respond to commands published for no reason. Will work well for ages then just 2 weeks of hit or miss, then back to fine. EDIT: I've changed my rating to 2 stars from free, as the turning component of the lock is plastic it has worn out after a year.