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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. In today’s world, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your hub or cell phone app, you can implement custom actions that elevate your security and convenience. Discover how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes let you do quite a bit, like checking video feeds or changing HVAC settings remotely from your smartphone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to work off each other. 

These are a few examples of what you can configure:

• Disarm your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Re-lock doors a specific amount of time after they are opened
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor activates or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

Your options are virtually limitless. You could even configure a comprehensive bedtime scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and activates your system in unison. The leading home security systems in Columbus make it a breeze with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Columbus home

Customizing smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers let you simplify your life in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with many optional automation actions you may just toggle on.  

Here’s a general rundown of how to customize a new action, also called a rule:

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Select what you would like to take place. For example, you could want to activate your system, begin a camera recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. To illustrate, you could want a light to turn on when a motion detector activates or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock activates. You can also have an action take place based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems difficult, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you may just press what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door opens, you may select which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also select the door if there are more than one possibilities. The rule may be programmed to run all day or only for certain times.

Find advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while attaining better protection for your family. Start designing your smart home in Columbus today by dialing (706) 770-6611 and talking to a Vivint specialist.