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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. In today’s world, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or phone app, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your conveneince and security. See how to create your own in just a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do many things, like adjusting smart thermostat settings or examining video footage directly from your cell phone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work together. 

These are several examples of what you can program:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• When doors are opened, have them lock again after a specified length of time
• Set indoor cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at certain hours

Your possibilities are virtually limitless. You might even create a varied bedtime scene that arms your system, secures doors, and dims lighting simultaneously. The top home security systems in Worcester make it a breeze with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Worcester home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you can’t handle customizing your home’s automation, think again. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to simplify your life in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with some suggested automation actions you can easily turn on.  

Here’s a brief rundown of how to make a new action, also called a rule:

1. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Choose what you want to occur. For instance, you might wish to switch on a light, arm your system, or commence a surveillance recording. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. As an example, you could want a light to switch on when a motion sensor triggers or a video camera to record when a front door lock opens. You may also schedule an action according to the hour.
6. The last step is to review what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complicated, it’s far from it. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you may just tap what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you can pick which camera to use from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule can be implemented to run all day or only for particular times of day.

Get innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine chores off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll discover a higher level of convenience while getting better protection for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Worcester today by dialing (508) 392-5472 and speaking to a Vivint professional.