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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through the use of your hub or cell phone app, you can implement custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. See how to create your own in only a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

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

The following are some examples of what you might do:

• Disarm your system when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• After doors are opened, have them lock again after a set duration
• Program interior cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at certain times of day

There are few limitations to what you may do. You might even configure a varied end-of-day scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and arms your system in unison. The best home security systems in Albany make it effortless with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Albany home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you can’t master configuring your home’s automation, think again. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to add convenience to your life in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with some recommended automation actions you can simply switch on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Set the action by selecting what you want to happen. To illustrate, you might want to commence a surveillance recording, arm your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. For example, you might want a light to turn on when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance device to record when a door lock is engaged. You may also have an action initiate simply based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to check what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complicated, it’s far from it. Because of the app's intuitive design, you essentially just tap what you want and switch rules off or on. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you can pick which camera to use from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule may be programmed for all hours or only for specified timeframes.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your family. Customize your smart home in Albany today by dialing (518) 900-7096 and speaking to a Vivint expert.