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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. These days, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your cell phone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to create your own in only a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do so much, like examining video streams or changing temperature settings directly from your cell phone. But that’s really just the start. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work together. 

The following are several examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Re-lock doors a set amount of time after they are opened
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at specified moments

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You could even establish a comprehensive end-of-day scene that activates your system, secures doors, and lowers lighting all at once. The best home security systems in Tempe make it a breeze with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Tempe home

Programming smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to simplify your life in merely a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various suggested automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

Here’s a quick rundown of how to customize 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 your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Choose what you would like to take place. For instance, you could want to illuminate a light, arm your system, or commence a camera recording. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you might want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a door lock activates. You may also have an action take place according to the hour.
6. The last step is to review what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears difficult, it’s far from it. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you may just tap what you want and switch rules on or off. If you would like a video camera to record when a door is opened, you can choose which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also pick the door if there are multiple possibilities. The rule may be set for all hours or only for certain times of day.

Find advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily tasks off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while getting better security for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Tempe today by placing a call to (480) 360-6677 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.