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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through the use of your smartphone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Learn how to design your own in just a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like changing thermostat settings or examining video footage directly from your phone. But that’s really just scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work off each other. 

The following are several examples of what you can do:

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

There’s no limit to what you can do. You might even create a comprehensive nighttime scene that dims lights, arms your system, and secures doors simultaneously. The best home security systems in Prescott make it effortless with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Prescott home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you’re not able to master customizing your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with some suggested automation actions you may just turn on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Choose what you want to take place. To illustrate, you may wish to commence a video recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you may want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector activates or a video camera to record when a door lock opens. You may also schedule an action according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complex, it’s not. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you may just tap what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door is opened, you may pick which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule can be implemented for all hours or only for certain times.

Find innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your family. Design your smart home in Prescott today by dialing (928) 267-6739 and talking to a Vivint professional.