How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your San Diego home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your smartphone app or central hub, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. See how to create your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like changing temperature settings or examining video footage directly from your cell phone. But that’s really just the start. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work off each other. 

The following are some examples of what you might do:

• Disarm your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• When doors are opened, have them lock again following a specified length of time
• Configure interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Arm and disarm your system at designated hours

Your choices are practically limitless. You can even configure a multifaceted nighttime scene that arms your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting in unison. The top home security systems in San Diego make it effortless with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your San Diego home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to manage configuring your home’s automation, think again. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s allow you to make life easier with custom actions in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many recommended automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

Here’s a brief rundown of how to make a new action, also referred to as a rule:

1. Launch the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Pick what you would like to occur. For example, you could want to commence a video recording, arm your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. As an example, you could want a smart light to illuminate when a motion detector trips or a surveillance device to record when a door lock is engaged. You might also schedule an action 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 seems complex, it’s far from it. Due to the app's usability, you may just press what you want and switch rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you may select which camera you want from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be set for all hours or only for particular times of day.

Enjoy the best in smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine chores off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while attaining better protection for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in San Diego today by calling (619) 492-4324 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.