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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. In today’s world, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or smartphone app, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do so much, like inspecting video feeds or changing HVAC settings remotely from your phone. But that’s really just scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to function together. 

These are a few examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a specified duration
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at specified hours

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You could even establish a varied bedtime scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and arms your system all at once. The leading home security systems in Youngstown make it simple with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Youngstown home

Programming smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are daunted by new technology. Mobile apps like Vivint’s enable you to simplify your life in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various optional automation actions you can simply toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Define the action by picking what you want to take place. For example, you may wish to start a camera recording, arm your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. As an example, you could want a light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a door lock opens. You might also have an action take place based on the time of day.
6. The last step is to review your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complex, it’s not. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just tap what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door lock activates, you will select which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also pick the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be implemented to run all day or only for particular times of day.

Find innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while attaining better security for your family. Design your smart home in Youngstown today by placing a call to (330) 632-1363 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.