How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Dover home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. In today’s world, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. By using your hub or cell phone app, you can implement custom actions that improve your conveneince and security. See how to create your own in just a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes permit you to do so much, like inspecting video streams or changing temperature settings directly from your cell phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work off each other. 

These are some examples of what you might program:

• Disarm your alarm when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector activates
• After doors are opened, have them lock again following a specified length of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at designated hours

There’s no limit to what you might do. You might even configure a multifaceted end-of-day scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and activates your system simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Dover make it simple with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Dover home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you’re not able to handle configuring your home’s automation, think again. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint let you add convenience to your life in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with some suggested automation actions you can just switch on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Pick what you wish to take place. For example, you might want to arm your system, commence a surveillance recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. As an example, you could want a light to switch on when a motion detector trips or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock is engaged. You might also initiate an action simply based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complicated, it’s not. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just press what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door opens, you may pick which camera you want from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are multiple possibilities. The rule may be implemented to run 24/7 or only for particular times of day.

Find advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while getting better protection for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Dover today by calling (302) 321-3498 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.