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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your smartphone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do so much, like examining video footage or changing temperature settings directly from your phone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to work together. 

Here are several examples of what you can program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Configure interior cameras to record if a motion sensor trips or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified hours

Your choices are virtually limitless. You might even establish a varied nighttime scene that locks doors, dims lighting, and arms your system simultaneously. The top home security systems in Tucson make it a breeze with user-friendly mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Tucson home

Configuring smart home automation is more straightforward than you realize, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Cell phone apps like Vivint’s enable you to add convenience to your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with some suggested automation actions you can just turn on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Begin by selecting what you want to occur. For instance, you could want to switch on a light, arm your system, or begin a surveillance recording. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you could want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor activates or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock activates. You might also have an action initiate according to the hour.
6. The last step is to review your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds difficult, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just touch what you want and switch rules off or on. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you can select which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be programmed to run all day or only for particular times.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while getting a better defense for your family. Customize your smart home in Tucson today by placing a call to (520) 655-6492 and speaking to a Vivint professional.