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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. These days, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your central touchscreen or phone app, you can implement custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. See how to create your own in only a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do quite a bit, like examining video feeds or adjusting HVAC settings directly from your smartphone. But that’s really just scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to function together. 

The following are some examples of what you might do:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• Re-lock doors a set amount of time after they are opened
• Program interior cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at certain times of day

Your options are virtually limitless. You could even create a varied bedtime scene that arms your system, locks doors, and dims lighting simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Kingsport make it simple with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Kingsport home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you’re not able to handle customizing your home’s automation, think again. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers let you make life easier with custom actions in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with some optional automation actions you can easily switch on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Define the action by picking what you want to occur. For instance, you could wish to start a camera recording, activate your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you could want a smart light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock opens. You can also initiate an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to review your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complicated, it’s not. Thanks to the app's usability, you essentially just touch what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you may select which camera to use from a list. You will also choose the door if there are more than one possibilities. The rule can be programmed for all hours or only for particular timeframes.

Find advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while obtaining better protection for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Kingsport today by calling (423) 556-9460 and connecting with a Vivint expert.