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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. These days, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your phone app or command panel, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to design your own in only a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do many things, like adjusting temperature settings or checking video feeds straight from your cell phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work together. 

The following are some examples of what you can program:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor activates or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at designated times of day

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You could even establish a comprehensive bedtime scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and activates your system all at once. The best home security systems in Fresno make it effortless with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Fresno home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you won’t be able to manage creating your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to add convenience to your life in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with some recommended automation actions you may easily switch on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Set the action by picking what you would like to occur. For example, you could want to activate your system, begin a video recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, determine what will cause the action. As an example, you could want a light to illuminate when a motion detector activates or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock opens. You might also have an action occur simply based on the hour.
6. The last step is to review your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complex, it’s not. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you may just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door is opened, you may choose which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are multiple choices. The rule may be set to run 24/7 or only for certain times of day.

Enjoy 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 manage them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your household. Design your smart home in Fresno today by dialing (559) 354-6624 and speaking to a Vivint expert.