How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Concord home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your modern system focuses on 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 conveneince and security. See how to make your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes let you do quite a bit, like changing temperature settings or examining video feeds straight from your phone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to work together. 

These are several examples of what you could configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Arm and disarm your system at certain times of day

Your choices are practically limitless. You can even configure a comprehensive nighttime scene that arms your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Concord make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Concord home

Customizing smart home automation is easier than you realize, even if you are daunted by new technology. Cell phone apps like the one from Vivint let you simplify your life in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with various optional automation actions you can just switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Select what you want to take place. For instance, you might wish to start a video recording, activate your system, or turn on a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, determine what will cause the action. To illustrate, you may want a light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also program an action according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems complex, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you may just press what you want and switch rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door is opened, you may choose which camera you want from a list. You'll also pick the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be implemented to run 24/7 or only for certain times of day.

Find innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting better security for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Concord today by placing a call to (802) 909-3379 and connecting with a Vivint expert.