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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your central touchscreen or cell phone app, you can integrate custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to create your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like checking video streams or changing thermostat settings straight from your phone. But that’s really just the start. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work off each other. 

These are a few examples of what you might do:

• Disarm your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain length of time
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Disarm and arm your system at specified moments

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You might even create a comprehensive nighttime scene that activates your system, locks doors, and dims lighting simultaneously. The best home security systems in Chandler make it effortless with user-friendly mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Chandler home

Configuring smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s allow you to add convenience to your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many recommended automation actions you may easily turn 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. Tap the menu icon in the upper left corner and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Pick what you would like to happen. To illustrate, you might wish to activate your system, start a video recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. For example, you might want a smart light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You can also initiate an action simply based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complex, it’s far from it. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just touch what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you will choose which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there are multiple options. The rule can be set to run 24/7 or only for particular times.

Enjoy the best in smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover another level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your household. Design your smart home in Chandler today by placing a call to (480) 739-3177 and talking to a Vivint expert.