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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through the use of your command panel or phone app, you can implement custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. See how to create your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do many things, like inspecting video streams or changing thermostat settings directly from your phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to function together. 

Here are a few examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm activates
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a set length of time
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Arm and disarm your system at specified times of day

Your choices are practically limitless. You might even create a varied nighttime scene that locks doors, dims lights, and activates your system all at once. The leading home security systems in Allentown make it effortless with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Allentown home

Programming smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are daunted by new technology. Cell phone apps like the one from Vivint enable you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with various recommended automation actions you can simply switch on.  

Here’s a brief rundown of how to make a new action, also called a rule:

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left corner and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Set the action by selecting what you would like to occur. For example, you could want to switch on a light, arm your system, or begin a camera recording. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. For example, you might want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor triggers or a video camera to record when a smart lock activates. You may also schedule an action based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears difficult, it’s far from it. Due to the app's usability, you may just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you can select 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 particular times of day.

Find innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily tasks off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting better security for your family. Design your smart home in Allentown today by calling (601) 514-6514 and talking to a Vivint expert.