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Yale Smart Lock with Matter, designed for Google Home, is available for purchase SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Earlier this year, Yale unveiled the Yale® Smart Lock ...

Available in black and white, the Yale Smart Lock with Matter is available to buy now for $189.99 at Yale and Amazon. As of writing, UK availability and pricing has yet to be announced. Today's ...

Yale is releasing its new Smart Lock with Matter support. The lock can be set up and operated entirely within Google Home. Operation requires the use of a Matter hub with a Thread border router.

To use the Yale Smart Lock with Matter, you’ll need some form of Matter hub with Thread support in your home. In Google’s ecosystem, that can include a Nest Wifi Pro, Nest Hub Max, Google TV ...

This past March, Google announced that a new Yale-made lock was inbound, with availability now kicking off. The new Smart Lock for Google Home is available for $189, purchasable via Yale directly ...

Matter technology promises to give the Yale Lock a lengthy battery life of up to 12 months. Of course, I'll have to test it for an extended period of time to get a better idea of that part, but ...

The new Nuki Smart Lock ($159), the company’s first designed for US deadbolts, is the most advanced retrofit smart lock I’ve ...

A simpler system than the Yale Smart alarm featured above, Yale’s Sync kit does not offer monitoring. As such, this is a system that you monitor and control entirely yourself.

With most DIY systems, such as the SimpliSafe Home Security Kit and the Ring Alarm Security Kit, you purchase the hardware outright and can avoid any monthly fees if you decide to self-monitor.