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Who should buy the Tapo DL100?
If you’re working with a tight budget and you can do without a fingerprint reader to gain admission to your home, the Tapo DL100 is a great and full-featured smart lock for not a lot of money—it’s less expensive than our favorite retrofit product.
It’s BHMA certified as an ANSI Grade 3 lock, the lowest of the three grades, but those ANSI grades are for commercial, as opposed to residential, locks.
This lock is outfitted with a numeric PIN pad and a conventional key cylinder, and it’s a Wi-Fi lock. That means you don’t need a bridge or hub to integrate it with your smart home. It’s compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, SmartThings, and IFTTT. What’s missing? A fingerprint reader, Matter certification, and Apple Home support.
Tapo DL100: Further considerationsTapo promises seven months of battery life from four AA batteries when connected to Wi-Fi (that rises to 10 months if you only use a Bluetooth connection), but there’s a USB-C on the bottom of the lock that will power it up if the batteries die while you’re out.