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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system focuses on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your central touchscreen or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Discover how to create your own in only a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do so much, like changing temperature settings or checking video streams directly from your cell phone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work together. 

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
• Lock doors a specific amount of time after they are opened
• Set indoor cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at designated moments

There are few limitations to what you can do. You can even establish a comprehensive nighttime scene that secures doors, lowers lights, and initiates your system all at once. The best home security systems in Camden make it effortless with user-friendly mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Camden home

Customizing smart home automation is easier than you think, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint enable you to add convenience to your life in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with some optional automation actions you may easily switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Define the action by choosing what you wish to take place. To illustrate, you might want to arm your system, begin a video recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. To illustrate, you might want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock is engaged. You can also schedule an action according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems difficult, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's usability, you essentially just touch what you want and switch rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door lock activates, you will choose which camera to initiate from a list. You will also pick the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule can be programmed to run all day or only for particular timeframes.

Find advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine chores off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while attaining better protection for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Camden today by dialing (856) 746-6164 and connecting with a Vivint expert.