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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. These days, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your smartphone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your conveneince and security. Learn how to design your own in only a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do quite a bit, like examining video feeds or adjusting thermostat settings directly from your smartphone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to function together. 

Here are several examples of what you might configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector activates
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a specified duration
• Configure interior cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated hours

There aren’t many limits to what you may do. You might even configure a varied nighttime scene that dims lights, arms your system, and secures doors simultaneously. The best home security systems in Wilmington make it a breeze with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Wilmington home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you can’t manage customizing your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to make life easier with custom actions in only a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with many recommended automation actions you may just switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Pick what you wish to occur. For example, you may want to switch on a light, arm your system, or start a video recording. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. For example, you might want a light to turn on when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance device to record when a door lock opens. You can also schedule an action according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your action, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems difficult, it’s not. Thanks to the app's usability, you essentially just press what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door lock activates, you will pick which camera to use from a list. You will also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be implemented to run all day or only for specified timeframes.

Enjoy advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting better security for your household. Design your smart home in Wilmington today by calling (910) 634-2695 and speaking to a Vivint expert.