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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. In today’s world, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or smartphone app, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. Discover how to create your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do so much, like changing thermostat settings or inspecting video feeds remotely from your cell phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work off each other. 

These are a few examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a set length of time
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor activates
• Arm and disarm your system at designated times of day

Your options are nearly limitless. You could even create a multifaceted bedtime scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and activates your system all at once. The leading home security systems in Columbia make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Columbia home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to manage customizing your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers let you add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with various recommended automation actions you can easily turn on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Select what you want to take place. To illustrate, you might wish to arm your system, commence a surveillance recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. For example, you may want a light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock is engaged. You may also have an action occur according to the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to review your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complex, it’s far from it. Because of the app's intuitive design, you may just press what you want and slide rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door lock activates, you can pick which camera you want from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be implemented for all hours or only for certain times.

Enjoy the best in smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while getting better security for your family. Start designing your smart home in Columbia today by dialing (803) 921-0946 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.