How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your West Bloomfield home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your cell phone app or central hub, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your conveneince and security. See how to create your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do many things, like examining video streams or changing thermostat settings remotely from your smartphone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to work together. 

Here are several examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a set amount of time
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at certain times of day

There’s no limit to what you can do. You could even create a varied end-of-day scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and activates your system all at once. The leading home security systems in West Bloomfield make it simple with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your West Bloomfield home

Configuring smart home automation is more straightforward than you think, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Cell phone apps like the one from Vivint enable you to add convenience to your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with many suggested automation actions you can simply turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Select what you want to take place. For instance, you could wish to turn on a light, arm your system, or begin a surveillance recording. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you might want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a smart lock opens. You may also initiate an action according to the hour.
6. The last step is to review what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complex, it’s not. Due to the app's intuitive design, you may just press what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door is opened, you may pick which camera to initiate from a list. You will also select the door if there are different options. The rule can be set for all hours or only for specified times of day.

Find innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in West Bloomfield today by calling (248) 963-1801 and speaking to a Vivint professional.