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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your phone app or command hub, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. See how to create your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do so much, like adjusting smart thermostat settings or checking video streams remotely from your smartphone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to function together. 

The following are a few examples of what you can do:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

Your options are virtually limitless. You might even create a comprehensive bedtime scene that secures doors, lowers lights, and initiates your system all at once. The leading home security systems in Charlottesville make it simple with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Charlottesville home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you’re not able to master configuring your home’s automation, think twice. Cell phone apps like the one from Vivint allow you to make life easier with custom actions in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with some recommended automation actions you may simply toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Set the action by choosing what you wish to occur. For instance, you may want to activate your system, start a camera recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you could want a smart light to illuminate when a motion detector activates or a video camera to record when a smart lock opens. You can also initiate an action according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your action, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds difficult, it really isn’t. Because of the app's intuitive design, you can virtually just press what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door lock activates, you will pick which camera to use from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are more than one options. The rule may be programmed to run 24/7 or only for specified times.

Enjoy advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while obtaining better protection for your household. Design your smart home in Charlottesville today by calling (434) 404-5302 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.