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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your hub or cell phone app, you can implement custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. See how to design your own in only a few easy steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do quite a bit, like changing smart thermostat settings or examining video feeds remotely from your phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to function together. 

The following are a few examples of what you can program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• After doors are opened, have them lock again after a specified length of time
• Program interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Arm and disarm your system at certain times of day

There are few limitations to what you can do. You could even create a varied bedtime scene that dims lights, activates your system, and locks doors all at once. The top home security systems in Topeka make it simple with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Topeka home

Programming smart home automation is easier than you think, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to simplify your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various recommended automation actions you can simply switch on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Define the action by choosing what you wish to take place. For instance, you may wish to arm your system, commence a video recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find numerous options.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. For example, you could want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a door lock opens. You can also initiate an action simply based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complex, it’s not. Due to the app's intuitive design, you can virtually just tap what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you will pick which camera you want from a list. You will also select the door if there are multiple possibilities. The rule can be programmed for all hours or only for particular times.

Find the best in smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy another level of convenience while getting better protection for your household. Customize your smart home in Topeka today by calling (785) 369-9429 and talking to a Vivint professional.