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Buying guide The smart way to secure your home: understanding smart lock technology A smart lock is not as complicated as the advertising makes it sound, and not as clever as some of it suggests. Here is how these locks work, what they ask of you, and the question that decides everything.... Read the article → Living with it What happens when the batteries die The first question almost everyone asks, answered straight. How long a set lasts, the mechanical key, what the USB port does and does not do, and the four ways people actually get locked out.... Read the article → Compliance Smart locks on escape routes: what the Building Code actually requires There is a belief in the trade that a mechanical key override makes an electronic lock safe on an escape route. Read C/AS2 clause 3.15.2 and it does not. Where this bites, and who decides.... Read the article →