How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Pittsburgh home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your command panel or phone app, you can implement custom actions that improve your conveneince and security. Discover how to design your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do many things, like checking video feeds or adjusting thermostat settings straight from your smartphone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work off each other. 

Here are a few examples of what you could configure:

• Disarm your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm activates
• After doors are opened, have them lock again following a certain length of time
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

There aren’t many limits to what you may do. You can even configure a comprehensive bedtime scene that dims lights, arms your system, and fastens doors simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Pittsburgh make it simple with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Pittsburgh home

Customizing smart home automation is more straightforward than you realize, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to make life easier with custom actions in just a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various suggested automation actions you can just turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Define the action by picking what you would like to happen. For instance, you might want to activate your system, start a surveillance recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. As an example, you may want a light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock opens. You might also have an action take place simply based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to verify what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it seems complicated, it really isn’t. Because of the app's intuitive design, you may just touch what you want and toggle rules off or on. 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 set to run 24/7 or only for specified timeframes.

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

Take some of life’s routine chores off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your family. Start designing your smart home in Pittsburgh today by dialing (412) 318-9359 and talking to a Vivint specialist.