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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. These days, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or cell phone app, you can implement custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Learn how to design your own in just a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do many things, like adjusting thermostat settings or inspecting video footage remotely from your smartphone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to work off each other. 

Here are some examples of what you might program:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a set amount of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor trips
• Activate and deactivate your system at certain hours

There aren’t many limits to what you may do. You could even configure a multifaceted nighttime scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and arms your system all at once. The best home security systems in Sacramento make it simple with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Sacramento home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to master configuring your home’s automation, think again. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with many optional automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Define the action by choosing what you want to happen. To illustrate, you might want to turn on a light, arm your system, or start a surveillance recording. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, specify what will trigger the action. As an example, you may want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector activates or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock is engaged. You might also have an action initiate according to the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to check your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complex, it’s far from it. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you can virtually just touch what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door lock activates, you can choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also pick the door if there are multiple possibilities. The rule may be set for all hours or only for particular times of day.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while attaining better security for your family. Design your smart home in Sacramento today by calling (916) 914-8674 and connecting with a Vivint professional.