Now you can use Apple’s Home Key to get into your garage or home office

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Aqara has launched its first-ever astute lever lock, the U300 we saw earlier this twelvemonth astatine CES. Available successful achromatic oregon metallic for $229.99 connected Amazon, the U300 is 1 of the archetypal astute lever locks to enactment Matter implicit Thread and Apple Home Key.

You tin unlock these doors done Aqara’s app oregon Matter apps similar Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, but Aqara besides offers a wide scope of different introduction options, including the built-in fingerprint reader, keypad, oregon carnal keys. Apple Home Key enactment besides means you tin conscionable pat your iPhone oregon Apple Watch to enter, adjacent erstwhile they’ve tally retired of power.

Lever locks are typically recovered connected doors for garages, broadside entries, and location offices. The Verge’s astute location reviewer, Jennifer Tuohy, is inactive successful the process of investigating the U300, but truthful far, she has recovered it incredibly casual to unlock. One crushed is that the fingerprint scholar is located wrong the handle, truthful each you request to bash is drawback it arsenic you usually would, and it automatically unlocks.

Other notable features include weatherproofing and an IPX4 rating, truthful you tin instal the astute fastener connected interior and exterior doors. Aqara besides promises a artillery beingness of up to 10 months. There’s besides a USB-C Emergency Port.

The U300 lever fastener is disposable present connected Amazon successful North America, with availability volition grow to different retailers successful South America, South East Asia, and Oceania soon.

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