Amazon’s Echo and its voice assistant Alexa can help users do all sorts of tasks, such as hailing you an Uber, ordering a pizza, checking up on the weather, reading you a book, and so on. Now it looks like it can even control your house’s lock, but that’s assuming you have equipped it with the August Smart Lock.
The August Smart Lock is a lock system that we reviewed back in 2014. One of its advantages over other systems is that it has a very easy DIY installation. All users have to do is pop it over their existing deadbolt lock and they’re good to go. Now with support from Amazon Echo, users will be able to control their lock using voice commands.
This will allow users to ask Alexa to check whether or not the door has been locked, which is a good idea when you’re going to bed and want to make sure that everything is locked up and secured. It will also let users lock the door if they haven’t done it already, which is a convenient feature as you could be somewhere in the house and still control the locking mechanism.
This will work with users who own the 1st or 2nd generation August Smart Lock, so if you do have either lock system and an Amazon Echo, this is a feature that could be worth checking out.
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