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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. These days, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. By using your hub or cell phone app, you can incorporate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Discover how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do quite a bit, like checking video feeds or adjusting thermostat settings directly from your smartphone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to work together. 

These are several examples of what you could do:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO detector or fire alarm activates
• After doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a set amount of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at designated moments

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You can even establish a varied end-of-day scene that activates your system, secures doors, and lowers lighting all at once. The leading home security systems in Lubbock make it simple with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Lubbock home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t master configuring your home’s automation, think again. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with various recommended automation actions you can just turn on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Select what you want to occur. For example, you might wish to start a surveillance recording, activate your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find numerous choices.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. As an example, you might want a light to switch on when a motion sensor triggers or a video camera to record when a front door lock activates. You might also have an action take place simply based on the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to review your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds difficult, it’s not. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you may just touch what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door is opened, you will choose which camera to initiate from a list. You will also select the door if there are multiple possibilities. The rule may be implemented for all hours or only for certain times of day.

Get innovative smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll discover another level of convenience while attaining better security for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Lubbock today by calling (806) 615-4325 and connecting with a Vivint professional.