How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Sandy Springs home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your central touchscreen or phone app, you can incorporate custom actions that elevate your security and convenience. See how to design your own in just a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do so much, like adjusting temperature settings or examining video streams remotely from your smartphone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to work off each other. 

Here are a few examples of what you might do:

• Disarm your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain amount of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Activate and deactivate your system at designated moments

Your options are practically limitless. You might even create a multifaceted bedtime scene that arms your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Sandy Springs make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Sandy Springs home

Customizing smart home automation is easier than you realize, even if you are daunted by new technology. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint allow you to make life easier with custom actions in only a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with some optional automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left corner and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Define the action by picking what you would like to happen. To illustrate, you might want to switch on a light, arm your system, or commence a camera recording. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, specify what will trigger the action. To illustrate, you may want a light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance device to record when a door lock opens. You can also initiate an action simply based on the hour.
6. The last step is to check what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complex, it really isn’t. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you may just touch what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you will pick which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there are more than one possibilities. The rule may be implemented to run all day or only for particular times of day.

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

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while getting better security for your family. Start designing your smart home in Sandy Springs today by placing a call to (470) 466-8688 and speaking to a Vivint professional.