How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Austin 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 smartphone app or central hub, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your security and convenience. See how to design your own in only a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes let you do so much, like checking video streams or adjusting temperature settings directly from your phone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work off each other. 

Here are several examples of what you can program:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain length of time
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion sensor trips or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated hours

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You could even create a varied end-of-day scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and arms your system simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Austin make it simple with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Austin home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to master customizing your home’s automation, think twice. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s let you simplify your life in just a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with some suggested automation actions you can just toggle on.  

Here’s a brief rundown of how to customize a new action, also called a rule:

1. Launch the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Set the action by picking what you would like to take place. To illustrate, you could wish to activate your system, begin a surveillance recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find numerous choices.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. To illustrate, you could want a light to switch on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock opens. You may also initiate an action simply based on the time of day.
6. The last step is to check your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it seems difficult, it’s not. Thanks to the app's usability, you essentially just touch what you want and switch rules off or on. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you may select which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be implemented to run 24/7 or only for specified timeframes.

Find innovative smart home automation with a new 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 enjoy another level of convenience while obtaining better security for your household. Customize your smart home in Austin today by calling (512) 229-9684 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.