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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your smartphone app or command hub, you can implement custom actions that improve your security and convenience. See how to create your own in only a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do many things, like adjusting smart thermostat settings or examining video feeds directly from your phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work together. 

These are some examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Have doors lock automatically a set amount of time after they are unlocked
• Configure interior cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated times of day

There’s no limit to what you can do. You could even configure a multifaceted bedtime scene that activates your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting in unison. The best home security systems in Bloomington make it effortless with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Bloomington home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you won’t be able to manage configuring your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Cell phone apps like Vivint’s let you make life easier with custom actions in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with some suggested automation actions you may easily toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Select what you would like to occur. For instance, you may wish to commence a surveillance recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. As an example, you might want a smart light to switch on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a door lock activates. You might also initiate an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to review your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complicated, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you may just touch what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door lock activates, you will choose which camera to use from a list. You will also pick the door if there are more than one possibilities. The rule can be set to run all day or only for particular times of day.

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

Take some of life’s daily tasks off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll discover a higher level of convenience while attaining better protection for your household. Design your smart home in Bloomington today by dialing (309) 332-1140 and connecting with a Vivint professional.