How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Seattle home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. These days, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your phone app or central hub, you can implement custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do many things, like inspecting video feeds or adjusting HVAC settings straight from your smartphone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work off each other. 

Here are several examples of what you could configure:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• Have doors lock automatically a specific amount of time after they are unlocked
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at designated times of day

There’s no limit to what you can do. You could even establish a varied bedtime scene that arms your system, secures doors, and dims lighting simultaneously. The best home security systems in Seattle make it effortless with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Seattle home

Customizing smart home automation is easier than you realize, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint let you add convenience to your life in merely a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with some recommended automation actions you may easily toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Define the action by choosing what you would like to happen. For example, you may wish to arm your system, start a camera recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. As an example, you could want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a smart lock activates. You can also schedule an action simply based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to review what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complex, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door is opened, you can choose which camera to use from a list. You will also choose the door if there are multiple choices. The rule can be implemented to run 24/7 or only for certain times.

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

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Seattle today by dialing (206) 590-6257 and speaking to a Vivint expert.