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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through the use of your smartphone app or command panel, you can implement custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to design your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like changing smart thermostat settings or examining video streams remotely from your cell phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation allows different parts of your home to work off each other. 

These are some examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• Have doors lock automatically a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Set indoor cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You can even configure a multifaceted nighttime scene that dims lights, activates your system, and secures doors simultaneously. The best home security systems in Houston make it a breeze with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Houston home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you’re not able to handle configuring your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Cell phone apps like Vivint’s let you simplify your life in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with many suggested automation actions you can just turn on.  

Here’s a quick rundown of how to create a new action, also known 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 pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Set the action by selecting what you want to take place. For example, you might want to illuminate a light, arm your system, or begin a video recording. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. As an example, you could want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector trips or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock activates. You may also have an action take place according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complicated, it’s far from it. Because of the app's intuitive design, you may just touch what you want and switch rules on or off. If you would like a video camera to record when a door is opened, you may choose which camera to initiate from a list. You will also pick the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be implemented for all hours or only for particular times.

Find the best in smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while getting a better defense for your household. Design your smart home in Houston today by calling (713) 597-3506 and talking to a Vivint expert.