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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your hub or smartphone app, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. See how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do many things, like changing smart thermostat settings or inspecting video feeds remotely from your cell phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work off each other. 

Here are a few examples of what you could do:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• When doors are opened, have them lock again following a specified amount of time
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion sensor activates or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at certain moments

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You can even create a multifaceted end-of-day scene that arms your system, locks doors, and dims lighting in unison. The leading home security systems in Florence make it effortless with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Florence home

Configuring smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are daunted by new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers let you make life easier with custom actions in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various recommended automation actions you may simply toggle on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Pick what you want to happen. For example, you might wish to arm your system, begin a surveillance recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. To illustrate, you may want a light to illuminate when a motion sensor triggers or a video camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You may also have an action take place based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complicated, it really isn’t. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you may just tap what you want and slide rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door is opened, you will select which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be implemented to run 24/7 or only for specified times.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while getting better security for your family. Start designing your smart home in Florence today by placing a call to (843) 438-7320 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.