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Smart Home Consumers Advised to Start Small
- Cnet, Tuesday, December 8, 2015 10:25 AM
My colleague Megan Wollerton was out at the CNET Smart Home, about a 40-minute drive from the office where we both work. She was working on a video project, and needed an essential shot of the smart lock in the front door turning on its own. The problem? The app on her phone wouldn't pair with the lock. The fix seemed simple. The lock was the Schlage Sense Bluetooth deadbolt, a smart lock built to work with Apple's HomeKit protocols in iOS devices. The Apple HomeKit products in the CNET Smart Home are all tied to my iCloud account, and Megan was using an iPhone tied to an account that hadn't been linked to mine yet. Without Apple TV plugged in at the house, I couldn't control the lock from afar, so I needed to share HomeKit access from my account to hers. Easy enough.
