Yale Assure Lock 2, Plus, and Touch review: a smart lock for every smart home

I want three things from a smart lock: a slim, attractive design, more than two ways to control it, and the ability to connect to my smart home, with no single-purpose Wi-Fi bridge taking up an outlet in my house. Yale’s flagship smart lock series, the Assure Lock 2, ticks all those boxes. Plus, they work with all the major smart home platforms if you add the right networking module, and they now come in fingerprint or Apple Home Key variants.

The Yale Assure Lock 2 starts at $159.99, the