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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your cell phone app or command hub, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. See how to design your own in just a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do many things, like checking video streams or adjusting thermostat settings remotely from your smartphone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work together. 

Here are several examples of what you could configure:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a set amount of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified hours

There are few limitations to what you can do. You can even establish a comprehensive end-of-day scene that arms your system, secures doors, and lowers lighting all at once. The top home security systems in Pensacola make it a breeze with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Pensacola home

Configuring smart home automation is easier than you realize, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers let you make life easier with custom actions in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with many suggested automation actions you can just toggle on.  

Here’s a quick rundown of how to create a new action, also called a rule:

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Begin by selecting what you wish to take place. For instance, you might wish to switch on a light, arm your system, or commence a camera recording. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will cause the action. For example, you may want a light to switch on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also have an action take place simply based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to check your work, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complex, it’s not. Because of the app's intuitive design, you essentially just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you can choose which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are more than one choices. The rule can be programmed to run 24/7 or only for specified times of day.

Find advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting better protection for your household. Design your smart home in Pensacola today by placing a call to (850) 790-5902 and connecting with a Vivint expert.