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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your command panel or smartphone app, you can integrate custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. Learn how to design your own in only a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes allow you to do so much, like inspecting video footage or adjusting temperature settings directly from your smartphone. But that’s really just the start. Smart home automation allows different parts of your home to work off each other. 

The following are some examples of what you can program:

• Disarm your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a set length of time
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Arm and disarm your system at certain hours

There are few limitations to what you may do. You can even establish a comprehensive nighttime scene that dims lights, arms your system, and secures doors all at once. The leading home security systems in Ogden make it simple with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Ogden home

Programming smart home automation is more straightforward than you think, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint enable you to simplify your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various suggested automation actions you may easily toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Pick what you want to take place. To illustrate, you may want to start a camera recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find numerous options.
5. Next, specify what will trigger the action. For example, you may want a light to turn on when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock activates. You might also program an action based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to review your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds complicated, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you may just press what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you will pick which camera to use from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are multiple options. The rule may be implemented for all hours or only for certain timeframes.

Get advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while getting a better defense for your household. Start designing your smart home in Ogden today by placing a call to (385) 900-2979 and talking to a Vivint professional.