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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your cell phone app or command panel, you can integrate custom actions that improve your home’s safety 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 many things, like inspecting video feeds or changing thermostat settings directly from your smartphone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation allows different parts of your home to work off each other. 

The following are several examples of what you can configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a set duration
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Disarm and arm your system at designated hours

There are few limitations to what you can do. You might even configure a comprehensive bedtime scene that dims lights, activates your system, and secures doors simultaneously. The top home security systems in Minneapolis make it effortless with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Minneapolis home

Customizing smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are daunted by new technology. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s enable you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with some optional automation actions you may easily toggle on.  

Here’s a general rundown of how to create 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 of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Define the action by choosing what you would like to happen. For example, you might wish to switch on a light, arm your system, or start a camera recording. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. For example, you could want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a video camera to record when a front door lock activates. You may also schedule an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complicated, it’s not. Because of the app's usability, you essentially just touch what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door opens, you will select which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also select the door if there are multiple choices. The rule can be programmed for all hours or only for specified times of day.

Find 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 have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while getting better security for your family. Customize your smart home in Minneapolis today by dialing (612) 662-1765 and talking to a Vivint specialist.