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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. In today’s world, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your command panel or cell phone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. See how to create your own in just a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do many things, like checking video footage or changing temperature settings straight from your smartphone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work off each other. 

The following are some examples of what you can configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• When doors are opened, have them lock again after a specified length of time
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at designated moments

There’s no limit to what you can do. You might even create a multifaceted bedtime scene that lowers lights, activates your system, and locks doors simultaneously. The best home security systems in Rockford make it simple with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Rockford home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you’re not able to manage configuring your smart home automation, think again. Mobile apps like Vivint’s let you make life easier with custom actions in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with some recommended automation actions you can easily turn on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left corner and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Choose what you want to happen. For example, you could wish to arm your system, begin a video recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will trigger the action. To illustrate, you could want a light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance device to record when a door lock is engaged. You may also schedule an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to review what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds difficult, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's usability, you may just tap what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you may pick which camera to initiate from a list. You will also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be programmed to run 24/7 or only for particular times.

Find innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while obtaining better security for your family. Start designing your smart home in Rockford today by dialing (815) 362-1830 and speaking to a Vivint expert.