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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your phone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. Discover how to create your own in only a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do quite a bit, like adjusting smart thermostat settings or examining video feeds remotely from your phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work together. 

Here are a few examples of what you might configure:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm activates
• Lock doors a set amount of time after they are opened
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor trips
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified hours

Your possibilities are practically limitless. You might even establish a varied bedtime scene that dims lights, arms your system, and secures doors simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Beaumont make it effortless with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Beaumont home

Configuring smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint enable you to add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with various recommended automation actions you may just toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Pick what you would like to occur. For example, you could want to activate your system, start a video recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. For example, you may want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector activates or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock activates. You might also have an action occur according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds complex, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you may just tap what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door is opened, you will select which camera you want from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are different options. The rule may be implemented to run all day or only for specified times of day.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine chores off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while attaining better security for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Beaumont today by placing a call to (409) 978-7822 and talking to a Vivint expert.