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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. These days, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through the use of your smartphone app or command hub, you can implement custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Learn how to create your own in just a few easy steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes permit you to do so much, like changing temperature settings or checking video streams remotely from your cell phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to work together. 

The following are several examples of what you can configure:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Program interior cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

Your choices are nearly limitless. You can even create a multifaceted nighttime scene that arms your system, locks doors, and adjusts lighting in unison. The best home security systems in Tallahassee make it simple with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Tallahassee home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you can’t manage customizing your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Mobile apps like Vivint’s enable you to add convenience to your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with some suggested automation actions you can easily turn on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Set the action by picking what you would like to take place. For instance, you might wish to begin a video recording, arm your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. For example, you might want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock activates. You might also have an action occur according to the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to review what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complicated, it’s not. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you may just press what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you will choose which camera you want from a list. You will also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be set to run all day or only for specified times of day.

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

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while obtaining better security for your family. Customize your smart home in Tallahassee today by dialing (850) 790-4997 and talking to a Vivint expert.