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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your modern system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your central touchscreen or cell phone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Discover how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do many things, like changing thermostat settings or examining video feeds directly from your phone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to function together. 

These are several examples of what you can do:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain length of time
• Configure interior cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at certain times of day

There’s no limit to what you may do. You can even configure a varied nighttime scene that dims lights, arms your system, and secures doors simultaneously. The top home security systems in Sugarland make it a breeze with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Sugarland home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you won’t be able to handle customizing your home’s automation, think twice. Mobile apps like Vivint’s allow you to make life easier with custom actions in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with many suggested automation actions you can just toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Select what you wish to occur. For example, you could want to arm your system, begin a camera recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find numerous choices.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. To illustrate, you might want a light to illuminate when a motion detector activates or a video camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You may also initiate an action based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to review what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complicated, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you may just touch what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you will select which camera to initiate from a list. You will also choose the door if there are multiple choices. The rule can be implemented for all hours or only for certain timeframes.

Get the best in smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while getting a better defense for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Sugarland today by dialing (281) 688-2891 and connecting with a Vivint expert.