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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your hub or cell phone app, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to create your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes allow you to do so much, like adjusting temperature settings or checking video streams directly from your phone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work off each other. 

The following are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO or smoke detector activates
• After doors are opened, have them lock again after a set length of time
• Program interior cameras to record if a motion sensor activates or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at designated hours

There’s no limit to what you may do. You might even establish a multifaceted end-of-day scene that lowers lights, arms your system, and fastens doors all at once. The top home security systems in Monroe make it a breeze with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Monroe home

Programming smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers let you make life easier with custom actions in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with some optional automation actions you may just switch on.  

Here’s a general rundown of how to customize a new action, also called a rule:

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Define the action by choosing what you wish to take place. To illustrate, you may wish to activate your system, begin a video recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you may want a light to switch on when a motion detector trips or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock opens. You may also have an action take place simply based on the time of day.
6. The last step is to review your action, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds difficult, it really isn’t. Because of the app's user-friendliness, 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 will choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also select the door if there are more than one choices. The rule may be programmed for all hours or only for specified timeframes.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while getting a better defense for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Monroe today by dialing (318) 758-9140 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.