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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your cell phone app or command hub, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. See how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes allow you to do many things, like adjusting thermostat settings or examining video streams directly from your smartphone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to work together. 

Here are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

There aren’t many limits to what you may do. You could even create a multifaceted nighttime scene that adjust lights, activates your system, and locks doors simultaneously. The best home security systems in Columbia make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Columbia home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you’re not able to master customizing your smart home automation, think twice. Cell phone apps like Vivint’s let you simplify your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various optional automation actions you can simply toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left corner and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Define the action by choosing what you wish to happen. For example, you could want to switch on a light, arm your system, or start a camera recording. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, specify what will trigger the action. For example, you may want a light to turn on when a motion sensor activates or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock activates. You might also have an action take place according to the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to review your action, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems difficult, it’s not. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you can virtually just touch what you want and slide rules off or on. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door is opened, you may select which camera to use from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be programmed to run 24/7 or only for specified times.

Find advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while obtaining better security for your household. Customize your smart home in Columbia today by calling (573) 641-8250 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.