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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your command panel or smartphone app, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to design your own in just a few easy steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do so much, like adjusting temperature settings or checking video footage remotely from your cell phone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to work together. 

Here are some examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your alarm when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• After doors are opened, have them lock again after a certain duration
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified moments

There’s no limit to what you can do. You could even establish a comprehensive end-of-day scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and activates your system all at once. The best home security systems in Phoenix make it simple with user-friendly cell phone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Phoenix home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you can’t master creating your home’s automation, think twice. Mobile apps like Vivint’s enable you to simplify your life in only a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with some optional automation actions you may just turn on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Set the action by picking what you would like to take place. To illustrate, you might want to illuminate a light, arm your system, or start a surveillance recording. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. As an example, you might want a light to turn on when a motion sensor activates or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock activates. You might also have an action initiate according to the hour.
6. The last step is to check your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complex, it’s not. Because of the app's usability, you essentially just tap what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door is opened, you can pick which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule can be programmed to run all day or only for certain times of day.

Get the best in smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your household. Start designing your smart home in Phoenix today by calling (602) 755-6051 and speaking to a Vivint expert.