How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Lynchburg home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your hub or smartphone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. See how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do many things, like inspecting video footage or changing temperature settings remotely from your smartphone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation allows different parts of your home to function together. 

These are a few examples of what you might program:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a set length of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor activates
• Arm and disarm your system at specified times of day

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You could even create a multifaceted bedtime scene that dims lights, activates your system, and fastens doors in unison. The top home security systems in Lynchburg make it a breeze with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Lynchburg home

Customizing smart home automation is easier than you realize, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers let you make life easier with custom actions in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with some recommended automation actions you can easily turn on.  

Here’s a brief rundown of how to customize 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 the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Pick what you want to happen. For instance, you might wish to arm your system, begin a video recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you might want a smart light to illuminate when a motion detector activates or a video camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also have an action take place simply based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to review what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complex, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you can virtually just tap what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door is opened, you will select which camera you want from a list. You'll also pick the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule can be set to run all day or only for particular times.

Get advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your family. Design your smart home in Lynchburg today by placing a call to (434) 300-3689 and talking to a Vivint expert.