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Three-hour outage renders Nest-equipped smart homes very dumb

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: This story should be mandatory reading

>some insurance companies are au fair with smartlocks...

However, if you want more favourable premiums and easier claim payout, you do need to inform the insurance company of the grade of locks you are using and be able to show that at the time of the unfortunate event such locks were being used.

It is for these reasons, that I've taken a premium hit with my burglar alarm, as I cannot be sure that partner and teenagers would always set the alarm on leaving the house - most insurance companies would happily insure Fort Knox as if it had the security of a greenhouse, just don't expect the premiums to be reasonable.

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