How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your College Station home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. These days, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your command panel or phone app, you can implement custom actions that improve your conveneince and security. Learn how to make your own in just a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do so much, like inspecting video footage or changing thermostat settings remotely from your smartphone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to function together. 

Here are a few examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• Lock doors a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor trips
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

Your possibilities are practically limitless. You can even create a multifaceted bedtime scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and initiates your system all at once. The leading home security systems in College Station make it simple with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your College Station home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to manage customizing your home’s automation, think again. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint enable you to simplify your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with many recommended automation actions you may simply toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Pick what you want to occur. To illustrate, you might wish to commence a video recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. As an example, you may want a light to illuminate when a motion sensor activates or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock opens. You may also schedule an action according to the hour.
6. Then, you just have to review your work, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems difficult, it’s not. Because of the app's usability, you may just touch what you want and switch rules off or on. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door is opened, you can pick which camera you want from a list. You'll also pick the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be set to run all day or only for specified times of day.

Find innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while attaining better security for your family. Design your smart home in College Station today by dialing (979) 356-2138 and speaking to a Vivint expert.