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Tammy Rogers

Nuki's new smart lock supports Thread so that you only need a HomePod or Apple TV to get it integrated into your HomeKit smart home — and it works with Matter

Nuki Smart Lock on a door being opened.

Building a smart home is a complicated affair. Some devices need to be hooked up directly to your existing HomeKit hubs, and then some need an extra hub to connect to those hubs. Some devices from the same manufacturer even need different hubs for different products to work and rely on different connection methods to hook it all up. It’s easy to see how complicated it can all get.

Nuki, the smart lock manufacturer, just streamlined the process of getting one of its devices connected to your HomeKit setup — and it’s all thanks to a little thing called Thread.

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