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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. By using your cell phone app or central hub, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. Learn how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do so much, like inspecting video streams or changing thermostat settings straight from your smartphone. But that’s really just scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work off each other. 

These are a few examples of what you could configure:

• Disarm your alarm when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector trips
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Program interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor triggers
• Disarm and arm your system at certain moments

Your options are virtually limitless. You could even establish a comprehensive bedtime scene that activates your system, secures doors, and lowers lighting in unison. The leading home security systems in Hoover make it simple with user-friendly mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Hoover home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t master customizing your smart home automation, think again. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to simplify your life in only a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with many recommended automation actions you can just switch on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Begin by selecting what you would like to occur. To illustrate, you might want to arm your system, begin a camera recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. For example, you might want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor triggers or a video camera to record when a door lock is engaged. You can also have an action initiate according to the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to check what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complicated, it really isn’t. Due to the app's usability, you can virtually just press what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door is opened, you can select which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule can be programmed 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 everyday tasks off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll discover a higher level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your family. Start designing your smart home in Hoover today by calling (205) 898-6989 and talking to a Vivint professional.