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The Terrific Budget Kwikset Smartcode 888 Deadbolt REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
There are a lot of smart deadbolts on the market that can integrate into your smart home, but they all cost so darn much it's prohibitive to upgrade too quickly. Until now, until the budget priced Kwikset Smartcode 888 electronic deadbolt. Whether you plan on hooking it up to your Z-Wave system (Samsung SmartThings or Amazon Alexa via a Wink hub), it's a great place to start smartening up your home, second home, AirBNB or VRBO rental or similar. Tech expert and smarthome owner Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ installed a Kwikset Smartcode 888 and demos how it all works as he shares his experiences with both the install and operation of the unit. Check them out at https://amzn.to/2Ojnvp5
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is this your next smart deadbolt let's
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have a look Dave Taylor here and I'm
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looking at this this is the Kwikset
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SmartCode 8 8 8 electronic deadbolt well
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this is the box this is actually the
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deadbolt
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and let's go ahead and lock my door
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that's pretty easy now
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it's locked double check yep I can't get
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back in my house I'd better make sure I
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remember the code so let's go ahead and
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try the code so I'm gonna try a
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temporary code that I've just set for
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this review there we go
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so super easy code easy to remember and
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obviously it works and now if I can
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actually get to the door handle I can
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open my door it's amazing so let me tell
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you about this deadbolt because it's
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actually really cool and the biggest
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thing that's great about it is that it's
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really at set at an entry-level price
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this is actually a budget smart home
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deadbolt and that's a great thing
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now the deadbolt the quick set actually
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supports up to thirty four to eight
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digit combinations or access codes as
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they call them and if you do the math
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that means if you have four digits and
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you only have these five buttons to get
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all of the digits in that means you have
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a total of 625 combinations as a
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four-digit number but here's a handy tip
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when you set up a code for someone use
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their cell phone number it's pretty darn
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easy random people that walk into your
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front door or walk into your garage in
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my case they're not gonna have a clue
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what those numbers are and seven digit
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gives you a lot more combinations in
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fact if you go to an eight digit access
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code there are 390,000 combinations that
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take into account the fact that 1 & 2 &
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3 & 4 for example are basically the same
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button push so plenty of security 30
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different combinations means you can
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have one for your cleaner and another
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one for your kids and then and one that
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you set for Grandma
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no longer is in town so now you take
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that code away or maybe you leave
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grandma's and you take away the cleaners
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code mmm well however you want to do
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that it works off of four double A
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batteries and will go out back into the
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house I'll show you the other side in
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just a second and it has an auto lock
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feature too this is kind of cool for
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some settings you can actually have it
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where once you unlock it after 30
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seconds to three minutes it will
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automatically lock again that can be
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really helpful if you are around people
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who forget to lock the door
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although honestly it's one push and the
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doors locked again it's pretty hard to
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make it any easier than that now the
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other thing that kwikset's done that's
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really cool is they have what they call
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their smart key re key technology so
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you'll notice it has this actual
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traditional key as an emergency override
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but you don't need to use it turns out
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that you can actually always use the
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code of course if the battery dies then
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you're going to need the code it comes
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with a key I'm sorry you're going to
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need the key it comes with the key but
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if you already have a bunch of keys you
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can actually redo this yourself you can
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reset it so that it works with your
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existing house key how cool is that
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now I haven't tried that piece of
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technology because I don't use keys
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anymore I just have smart dead bolts
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everywhere but if that's something
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that's important to you it's really nice
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to have that failsafe so that's a really
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good benefit and quick-set has some
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really nice videos on their website that
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explained exactly how to do that it's
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not super easy but people do report
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success so it's something you can do
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without having to call a locksmith and
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speaking of calling a locksmith I
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installed this myself it's pretty darn
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easy it's gonna take you probably 30
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minutes to an hour all told to take out
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an old traditional deadbolt and put this
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one in but that's also it took that long
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for me because I'm very meticulous about
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the steps I take so you know if you're
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gonna just zip through it and you're
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experienced with this sort of homework
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then it's super easy but even if you
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don't feel you're very much of a
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handyman or a DIY person handy person
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sorry
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and you can still I am confident you'll
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be able to install this thing and have
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it all ready to roll so that's really
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cool now let's talk about what happens
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when you plug it into a z-wave base
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because that's where this really shines
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so I have a Samsung smartthings z-wave
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hub for my whole home security system
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and this knows exactly how to talk to
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that which means that I have remote
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access through smart things the app and
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through something called smart locks
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which is a separate standalone app you
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install within the smart things universe
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and with all of that installed and it's
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that's pretty darn easy to get this all
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hooked up now I have remote locking and
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unlocking I can set remote access codes
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and I can even get remote notifications
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so let me show you how this all works
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what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna remote
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unlock the door and then I'm gonna set a
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code just a temporary code and it's
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actually the one that I used earlier and
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then I'm gonna actually go and have a
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quick look at history to see when it's
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been locked and unlocked and all of that
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you do via the app so it's super easy
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now if you want to work with Alexa and
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you have that as your home eco system
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then you're gonna need something called
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a wink hub as opposed to a smartthings
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hub but that's something I don't have
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experience with but other people report
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that it works just fine and they can
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then say things like Alexa lock backdoor
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that sounds very nice and really let's
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just jump inside real quick and let me
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show you just real quickly what the
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other side of the lock looks like the
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inside controls are super easy to work
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with this is the manual lock so we can
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lock it or unlock it that's easy enough
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and then this cover slides off and now
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you have access to the batteries which
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you can see here for doublea's it's easy
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enough to replace them you drop it back
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in and you're good to go and this is the
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program button so if you don't have a
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Smart Hub this is actually how you
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change the codes and such by pushing
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this in combination with the buttons on
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the other side and when you're ready to
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go you just slide this on and
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you're done so let's end by just going
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ahead and locking my door so that's all
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pretty straightforward actually and I
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have to say that it's pretty easy to
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work with this whether you're setting
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your codes manually or whether you get
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it all hooked up through your z-wave hub
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and you're setting them through the app
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of course the apps probably a little bit
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easier but either way it was pretty
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straightforward for me to get it all
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working and it obviously is up and
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running really really impressed it's
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really simple and when you find out how
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much it costs you'll be really impressed
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and you might well just rush out and
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click that button and go buy one that's
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what I did
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so let's see this is the Kwikset
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SmartCode 8 8 8 but well before we get
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to that let me ask if you can go ahead
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and click on that little red button on
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the lower right and subscribe to my
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channel I really appreciate when you
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subscribe to my channel and while you're
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at it leave me some feedback tell me
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what kind of deadbolt do you have on
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your front door and how does it work for
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you and if you have a smart door or
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smart deadbolt then what do you have and
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how is that working out cool now let's
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get back to this this is the Kwikset
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SmartCode 8 8 8 electronic deadbolt and
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it comes in this finish which is satin
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nickel it also comes in a venetian
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bronze and it also comes in a polished
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brass they're all very nice the goal of
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course is to have it match the rest of
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your door hardware which I demonstrably
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have not done I'll get to it at some
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point but here's the thing that's most
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amazing about this the smart code 888 is
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107 dollars now if you've been looking
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at smart deadbolts they are considerably
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more expensive than this in general so
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this is a really nice entry-level option
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for people and this could work really
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great for like an air B&B or if you just
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have people who come and visit or you
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just want to have a bunch of roommates
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and you don't want to want to worry
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about keys going everywhere super
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convenient so this is Dave Taylor I am
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gonna get back to programming my door
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and
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I'll catch you in my next video
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