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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your modern system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your command panel or cell phone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Learn how to make your own in just a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like inspecting video footage or adjusting HVAC settings remotely from your cell phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work together. 

The following are a few examples of what you could do:

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

There are few limitations to what you might do. You could even create a comprehensive nighttime scene that activates your system, secures doors, and dims lighting all at once. The leading home security systems in Indianapolis make it simple with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Indianapolis home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you can’t manage configuring your home’s automation, think twice. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to add convenience to your life in merely a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many optional automation actions you can just toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Define the action by choosing what you wish to occur. To illustrate, you may wish to commence a surveillance recording, activate your system, or turn on a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. For example, you might want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock activates. You may also have an action occur simply based on the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to review what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complicated, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just tap what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you can pick which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there are multiple choices. The rule may be implemented for all hours or only for particular times.

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

Take some of life’s everyday chores 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 higher level of convenience while attaining better protection for your family. Customize your smart home in Indianapolis today by placing a call to (317) 978-5706 and connecting with a Vivint expert.