How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your St. Paul home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your hub or cell phone app, you can implement custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to create your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do quite a bit, like checking video footage or adjusting HVAC settings directly from your smartphone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work off each other. 

These are several examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Lock doors a specific amount of time after they are opened
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at certain times of day

There aren’t many limits to what you might do. You might even configure a varied bedtime scene that secures doors, dims lights, and arms your system all at once. The leading home security systems in St. Paul make it simple with user-friendly mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your St. Paul home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you can’t handle creating your smart home automation, think twice. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint allow you to add convenience to your life in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with some optional automation actions you may just turn on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Choose what you would like to occur. For instance, you could want to illuminate a light, arm your system, or start a video recording. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you might want a light to illuminate when a motion detector triggers or a video camera to record when a door lock opens. You might also have an action occur simply based on the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to verify your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it appears complex, it really isn’t. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you can virtually just tap what you want and switch rules on or off. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you can pick which camera you want from a list. You will also select the door if there are different possibilities. The rule may be set to run all day or only for particular times.

Get advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while getting a better defense for your household. Customize your smart home in St. Paul today by dialing (651) 240-6686 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.