How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Provo home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. By using your smartphone app or command hub, you can implement custom actions that improve your conveneince and security. See how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

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

Here are a few examples of what you might program:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Have doors lock automatically a set amount of time after they are unlocked
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor trips
• Activate and deactivate your system at certain moments

Your options are nearly limitless. You could even create a varied end-of-day scene that arms your system, secures doors, and lowers lighting all at once. The top home security systems in Provo make it simple with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Provo home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to handle configuring your home’s automation, think again. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers let you simplify your life in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with various recommended automation actions you may easily toggle 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. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Choose what you would like to take place. For example, you may want to start a camera recording, arm your system, or turn on a light. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will trigger the action. As an example, you may want a light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a door lock opens. You might also have an action initiate according to the time of day.
6. The last step is to review your work, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complicated, it’s not. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you can virtually just press what you want and switch rules off or on. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you will select which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there are multiple options. The rule can be programmed for all hours or only for particular times.

Find the best in smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while attaining better security for your family. Customize your smart home in Provo today by dialing (385) 455-7233 and connecting with a Vivint expert.