How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your New Orleans home

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

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do many things, like inspecting video footage or changing thermostat settings straight from your cell phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to function together. 

Here are some examples of what you might configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• Lock doors a set amount of time after they are unlocked
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion sensor activates or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at designated times of day

Your choices are practically limitless. You can even establish a comprehensive bedtime scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and activates your system simultaneously. The leading home security systems in New Orleans make it simple with user-friendly cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your New Orleans home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you can’t master creating your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers let you simplify your life in merely a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with some optional automation actions you can simply toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Set the action by selecting what you wish to happen. To illustrate, you could wish to switch on a light, arm your system, or begin a surveillance recording. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. For example, you might want a smart light to switch on when a motion detector trips or a video camera to record when a front door lock opens. You may also have an action take place simply based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to review your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it seems complicated, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's usability, you may just touch what you want and slide rules on or off. If you would like a video camera to record when a door lock activates, you can pick which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also pick the door if there are more than one options. The rule can be implemented for all hours or only for particular times of day.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily tasks off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a higher level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your family. Start designing your smart home in New Orleans today by placing a call to (504) 285-9448 and talking to a Vivint professional.