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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. In today’s world, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. By using your cell phone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your conveneince and security. See how to design your own in just a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do so much, like checking video streams or adjusting temperature settings straight from your cell phone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to function together. 

Here are a few examples of what you might do:

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

There are few limitations to what you might do. You could even create a varied bedtime scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and arms your system in unison. The leading home security systems in Manchester make it effortless with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Manchester home

Configuring smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to simplify your life in merely a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with many suggested automation actions you can just switch on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Set the action by choosing what you would like to occur. For instance, you may wish to start a video recording, arm your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. For example, you might want a light to switch on when a motion sensor activates or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock opens. You might also have an action take place simply based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complicated, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's usability, you essentially just press what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door lock activates, you will choose which camera to use from a list. You will also select the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be set to run all day or only for specified timeframes.

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

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while getting better security for your family. Customize your smart home in Manchester today by calling (802) 944-4500 and connecting with a Vivint expert.