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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your smartphone app or command hub, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Learn how to create your own in only a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes allow you to do quite a bit, like adjusting smart thermostat settings or inspecting video feeds straight from your cell phone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation allows different parts of your home to work off each other. 

The following are a few examples of what you might do:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• Re-lock doors a specific amount of time after they are unlocked
• Configure interior cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at specified times of day

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You might even establish a comprehensive nighttime scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and activates your system all at once. The leading home security systems in Cleveland make it simple with user-friendly mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Cleveland home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you won’t be able to master configuring your smart home automation, think again. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to simplify your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with many suggested automation actions you can easily turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Pick what you would like to occur. For example, you may want to activate your system, begin a video recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. As an example, you could want a light to illuminate when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock opens. You may also have an action initiate simply based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds difficult, it’s far from it. Because of the app's usability, you essentially just tap what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door opens, you can pick which camera to initiate from a list. You will also choose the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule may be implemented to run 24/7 or only for specified times.

Find the best in smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Cleveland today by calling (216) 616-8604 and talking to a Vivint expert.