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Wink Lookout review Wink’s s.ecurity sensors aren’t good enough for your smart home.
I’ll be blunt. Never have I had so much trouble getting a smart home product to work. In fact, Wink Lookout is so difficult to get up and running—and so frustrating in actual operation—that shoppers should categorically look elsewhere for their home security needs.

This may come as a surprise, because the Wink Hub 2 is one of our most highly recommended smart home control systems, and that recommendation remains intact. But in July, Wink was acquired by i.am+ (the tech company owned by musician Will.i.am), and things appear to be in flux. The biggest news since that acquisition is the launch of Wink Lookout, Wink’s belated passel of security sensors designed to integrate with the Wink Hub ecosystem.

I recommend you avoid them.

The Lookout hardware—that’s the motion sensor on the left, and one of the door/window sensors on the righ—is small in size, but build quality isn’t the best.