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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your hub or smartphone app, you can implement custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. See how to create your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like adjusting temperature settings or checking video footage remotely from your smartphone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work off each other. 

These are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• When doors are opened, have them lock again after a set duration
• Set indoor cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at designated hours

There’s no limit to what you can do. You can even establish a multifaceted bedtime scene that adjust lights, activates your system, and locks doors all at once. The best home security systems in Baltimore make it a breeze with user-friendly cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Baltimore home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t handle creating your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint let you make life easier with custom actions in merely a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with some optional automation actions you may simply turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Set the action by choosing what you wish to happen. To illustrate, you may want to arm your system, start a video recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you may want a smart light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also have an action initiate according to the hour.
6. Then, you just have to review your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complex, it’s not. Due to the app's usability, you can virtually just touch what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you will pick which camera you want from a list. You will also choose the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule can be programmed to run all day or only for specified times.

Get advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy another level of convenience while obtaining better security for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Baltimore today by calling (410) 231-7697 and speaking to a Vivint expert.