How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Detroit home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your smartphone app or command hub, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your security and convenience. See how to make your own in just a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like changing temperature settings or checking video feeds remotely from your cell phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to work together. 

These are a few examples of what you could do:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector activates
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a set duration
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at specified moments

There are few limitations to what you might do. You can even establish a multifaceted bedtime scene that lowers lights, activates your system, and fastens doors simultaneously. The best home security systems in Detroit make it simple with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Detroit home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you’re not able to manage creating your home’s automation, think again. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to simplify your life in merely a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various optional automation actions you may simply turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Define the action by selecting what you want to happen. To illustrate, you might want to illuminate a light, arm your system, or start a video recording. You’ll find numerous choices.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. As an example, you might want a smart light to switch on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a door lock opens. You can also schedule an action based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to verify your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complex, it’s not. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you essentially 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 will choose which camera you want from a list. You'll also pick the door if there are different choices. The rule can be set to run all day or only for particular timeframes.

Enjoy advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting a better defense for your family. Design your smart home in Detroit today by dialing (313) 766-2527 and connecting with a Vivint expert.