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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your smartphone app or command hub, you can implement custom actions that elevate your security and convenience. Learn how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes permit you to do many things, like inspecting video footage or adjusting temperature settings directly from your phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work together. 

These are a few examples of what you could configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• Once doors are opened, have them lock again after a set duration
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified hours

There’s no limit to what you may do. You might even configure a varied nighttime scene that secures doors, lowers lights, and activates your system in unison. The top home security systems in Lafayette make it simple with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Lafayette home

Configuring smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are daunted by new technology. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint allow you to make life easier with custom actions in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with many recommended automation actions you may simply turn on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Pick what you would like to occur. To illustrate, you may want to start a surveillance recording, activate your system, or turn on a light. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you may want a light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a video camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also program an action simply based on the time of day.
6. The last step is to check your action, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complex, it really isn’t. Because of the app's usability, you may just touch what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door opens, you can choose which camera to initiate from a list. You will also select the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be implemented for all hours or only for particular times of day.

Find advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily chores off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your family. Customize your smart home in Lafayette today by dialing (765) 540-9213 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.