How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Scottsdale home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your cell phone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Learn how to create your own in just a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do many things, like changing temperature settings or checking video footage straight from your cell phone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to function together. 

The following are several examples of what you might program:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• When doors are opened, have them lock again following a specified amount of time
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Disarm and arm your system at certain hours

There are few limitations to what you can do. You could even create a varied end-of-day scene that arms your system, secures doors, and lowers lighting simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Scottsdale make it effortless with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Scottsdale home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t master customizing your home’s automation, think twice. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to make life easier with custom actions in just a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with various optional automation actions you can easily turn on.  

Here’s a quick rundown of how to create a new action, also known as a rule:

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Choose what you would like to take place. To illustrate, you might wish to turn on a light, arm your system, or commence a camera recording. You’ll find numerous options.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. For example, you might want a light to switch on when a motion detector trips or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You can also program an action according to the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to check your action, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems difficult, it’s not. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you can virtually just tap what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you may select which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule can be implemented for all hours or only for particular times of day.

Enjoy the best in smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while getting better security for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Scottsdale today by calling (480) 681-6262 and speaking to a Vivint expert.