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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your phone app or command hub, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Learn how to create your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do many things, like checking video feeds or changing HVAC settings straight from your phone. But that’s really just scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work off each other. 

Here are a few examples of what you can configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Have doors lock automatically a specific amount of time after they are unlocked
• Configure interior cameras to record if a motion sensor trips or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at designated moments

Your options are practically limitless. You could even configure a comprehensive bedtime scene that lowers lights, activates your system, and secures doors in unison. The top home security systems in Tyler make it simple with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Tyler home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t manage customizing your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to make life easier with custom actions in just a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with many suggested automation actions you can simply turn on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Begin by choosing what you want to occur. For instance, you could want to begin a surveillance recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. As an example, you may want a light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a door lock is engaged. You might also have an action initiate based on the hour.
6. The last step is to verify your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems complex, it’s not. Due to the app's usability, you essentially just touch what you want and switch rules off or on. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you can select which camera to initiate from a list. You will also choose the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule may be implemented to run all day or only for specified times of day.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll discover another level of convenience while getting better protection for your family. Customize your smart home in Tyler today by dialing (903) 459-7565 and speaking to a Vivint professional.