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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your phone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. See how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like adjusting temperature settings or examining video feeds remotely from your cell phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to function together. 

Here are a few examples of what you could do:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• After doors are opened, have them lock again after a certain amount of time
• Set indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor trips or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at certain moments

There aren’t many limits to what you might do. You can even establish a multifaceted nighttime scene that activates your system, locks doors, and dims lighting all at once. The leading home security systems in Erie make it effortless with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Erie home

Programming smart home automation is easier than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint allow you to add convenience to your life in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with many optional automation actions you may simply switch on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left corner and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Choose what you wish to happen. For example, you may wish to arm your system, commence a video recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. As an example, you might want a light to illuminate when a motion detector activates or a surveillance camera to record when a door lock opens. You can also initiate an action simply based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your work, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complex, it’s far from it. Due to the app's usability, you may just touch what you want and switch rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door opens, you may select which camera to use from a list. You'll also select the door if there are multiple possibilities. The rule can be implemented to run all day or only for certain times.

Find innovative smart home automation by choosing 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! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while obtaining better protection for your household. Design your smart home in Erie today by dialing (814) 992-4902 and connecting with a Vivint expert.