How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Dallas home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your hub or phone app, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. See how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do many things, like adjusting thermostat settings or examining video feeds straight from your cell phone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to work off each other. 

Here are some examples of what you could configure:

• Disarm your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• Once doors are opened, have them lock again following a specified duration
• Configure interior cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at designated times of day

Your options are virtually limitless. You might even configure a varied bedtime scene that locks doors, dims lights, and initiates your system simultaneously. The best home security systems in Dallas make it simple with user-friendly cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Dallas home

Configuring smart home automation is easier than you realize, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Mobile apps like Vivint’s let you make life easier with custom actions in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with many recommended automation actions you may simply toggle on.  

Here’s a general rundown of how to make a new action, also called a rule:

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Set the action by choosing what you would like to happen. For instance, you might wish to commence a camera recording, activate your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you could want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock activates. You might also schedule an action according to the time of day.
6. The last step is to check your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complicated, it’s far from it. Due to the app's intuitive design, you may just tap 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 pick which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are more than one choices. The rule can be implemented to run 24/7 or only for specified times of day.

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

Take some of life’s daily chores off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting better protection for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Dallas today by placing a call to (469) 812-8953 and speaking to a Vivint professional.