How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Elizabethtown home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your smartphone app or command hub, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to design your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do so much, like adjusting thermostat settings or inspecting video footage remotely from your smartphone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to function together. 

These are some examples of what you can program:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector activates
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain length of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Disarm and arm your system at specified times of day

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You could even create a varied bedtime scene that adjust lights, activates your system, and fastens doors simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Elizabethtown make it effortless with user-friendly mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Elizabethtown home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to manage creating your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint let you add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with some recommended automation actions you may just switch on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Define the action by choosing what you would like to take place. For example, you might wish to activate your system, begin a video recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find numerous choices.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. As an example, you could want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor activates or a video camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You can also program an action according to the hour.
6. The last step is to review what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it seems complicated, it really isn’t. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just tap what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door is opened, you may choose which camera to use from a list. You will also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be programmed for all hours or only for specified times.

Enjoy the best in smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine chores off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting better security for your household. Customize your smart home in Elizabethtown today by calling (270) 550-1814 and connecting with a Vivint professional.