How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your South Bend home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. By using your hub or smartphone app, you can implement custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Learn how to design your own in just a few easy steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do quite a bit, like examining video streams or adjusting HVAC settings directly from your cell phone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to function together. 

Here are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Once doors are opened, have them lock again after a specified amount of time
• Program interior cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at specified times of day

Your options are virtually limitless. You could even establish a varied end-of-day scene that activates your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting all at once. The leading home security systems in South Bend make it simple with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your South Bend home

Customizing smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to simplify your life in just a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with some optional automation actions you may just switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Set the action by picking what you would like to occur. To illustrate, you might want to commence a camera recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. To illustrate, you may want a light to turn on when a motion detector activates or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock activates. You may also have an action initiate according to the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to check your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds difficult, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you can virtually just tap what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door lock activates, you may select which camera you want from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be programmed to run 24/7 or only for particular times.

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

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your loved ones. Design your smart home in South Bend today by dialing (574) 601-4641 and talking to a Vivint professional.