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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. These days, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your smartphone app or central hub, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. See how to create your own in only a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like changing thermostat settings or checking video footage straight from your smartphone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation permits different parts of your home to function together. 

Here are several examples of what you could program:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• After doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a certain amount of time
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated times of day

Your choices are virtually limitless. You might even establish a varied bedtime scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and activates your system in unison. The best home security systems in Lima make it simple with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Lima home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you’re not able to handle customizing your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Mobile apps like Vivint’s allow you to simplify your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various suggested automation actions you may simply switch on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left corner and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Select what you want to occur. For instance, you could wish to illuminate a light, arm your system, or begin a video recording. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. For example, you might want a light to turn on when a motion sensor activates or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also schedule an action simply based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your work, 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 can virtually just tap what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door is opened, you can select which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be set to run 24/7 or only for specified timeframes.

Get innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your family. Customize your smart home in Lima today by placing a call to (419) 614-6227 and talking to a Vivint professional.