SwitchBot Lock Ultra

Great solution to work with existing deadbolt and Apple Home

Decent Lock

This is a decent lock that functions as described. After living with it for a few weeks I’ve noticed that the Auto Unlock doesn’t really work. The main purpose for me was to eliminate carrying my keys. The auto unlock works if you take your phone out, unlock it, and wait for it to recognize that you’re on the same network. Takes for forever so I just manually unlock from my phone. I wish this feature was more reliable so I could walk up to my door and it would unlock. The two other downsides is that it’s not native to thread so I had to purchase the hub as well to get it into my Apple home. I’m so tired of buying bridges and hubs. Things just need to be natively matter compatible. I don’t want a hub/bridge for every new smart device. Lastly setup was easy but calibrating it was a nightmare. The lock would just spin and spin and spin every time I tried to calibrate.

So far so good