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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your modern system focuses on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. By using your command panel or cell phone app, you can integrate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. Discover how to create your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do so much, like examining video feeds or changing temperature settings remotely from your phone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to work together. 

The following are some examples of what you can configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• Have doors lock automatically a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at certain moments

There’s no limit to what you might do. You could even create a multifaceted nighttime scene that adjust lights, arms your system, and fastens doors all at once. The leading home security systems in Duluth make it simple with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Duluth home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you can’t handle creating your smart home automation, think again. Mobile apps like Vivint’s allow you to simplify your life in just a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with many optional automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Pick what you wish to take place. For instance, you might wish to activate your system, start a camera recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. As an example, you may want a light to illuminate when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock opens. You may also have an action initiate simply based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it appears complex, it’s far from it. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you may just touch what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door lock activates, you will pick which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be implemented to run 24/7 or only for specified times of day.

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

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home take care of 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 Duluth today by dialing (218) 585-7945 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.