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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. These days, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your phone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Discover how to make your own in only a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes allow you to do quite a bit, like changing temperature settings or inspecting video streams straight from your smartphone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation allows different parts of your home to work off each other. 

These are several examples of what you might configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm activates
• Have doors lock automatically a specific amount of time after they are opened
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Activate and deactivate your system at certain hours

Your choices are virtually limitless. You might even establish a comprehensive end-of-day scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and activates your system in unison. The leading home security systems in Utica make it effortless with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Utica home

Configuring smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s allow you to make life easier with custom actions in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with many suggested automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Set the action by selecting what you wish to happen. For example, you could want to activate your system, commence a camera recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. For example, you could want a light to illuminate when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock opens. You can also schedule an action according to the hour.
6. The last step is to review your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it seems complex, it really isn’t. Because of the app's intuitive design, you may just tap what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you may pick which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule may be set for all hours or only for certain times of day.

Find advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily tasks off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while obtaining better security for your household. Design your smart home in Utica today by placing a call to (315) 819-0721 and talking to a Vivint professional.