The Lockly Flex is an attractive and easy-to-use fingerprint smart lock that doesn’t look like one. Lockly Flex Touch Smart Lock review: Bottom Line Fortunately, a tap on the fingerprint sensor locks the door after you have gone through it, so it wasn’t a big problem. Eventually, I got so sick of it beep-beep-beep-beeping all of the time I disabled the auto-lock feature and locked it manually instead. That happened because the door I installed it on had a habit of opening slightly in a breeze, which meant that the lock could not automatically close after I had opened it.

This lock also has an incredibly irritating beep-beep-beep-beep-beep error noise when it can’t lock or unlock properly. All smart locks create a certain amount of noise, but the Lockly mechanism seems especially loud. The lock mechanism is also rather noisy, opening and closing with a grinding noise that was audible through my house. I also asked several other people to try and open it with their fingers, and it didn’t open for any of them, rejecting them with a beep and flashing red and green light. Reading the fingerprint took just a second or so, and a green light glowed around the fingerprint pad to indicate success. I found the Flex Touch to be very easy to use: once I had added fingerprints for my wife and me to the lock, we could both open the door with a touch. Lockly Flex Touch Smart Lock review: Performance These can also check the lock's status, so you can double-check that the doors are locked without getting out of bed. The same Wi-Fi hub also supports opening and closing the lock via Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home voice assistants. With this, you can check the lock's status, get alerts when it is used or unlock it from anywhere with the app. If you want to be able to unlock the door when you are away from home or use voice control, you will need to add a Lockly Secure Link WiFi Hub, an $80 device that connects the lock to your WiFi network.

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