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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your cell phone app or command panel, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Discover how to design your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do quite a bit, like inspecting video footage or adjusting thermostat settings directly from your smartphone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to function together. 

Here are several examples of what you can configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• Have doors lock automatically a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at designated times of day

Your possibilities are practically limitless. You might even create a comprehensive nighttime scene that lowers lights, activates your system, and fastens doors in unison. The top home security systems in Augusta make it simple with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Augusta home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you won’t be able to master customizing your home’s automation, think again. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to add convenience to your life in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various recommended automation actions you may easily switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Begin by picking what you would like to occur. To illustrate, you might want to switch on a light, arm your system, or begin a surveillance recording. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. As an example, you could want a light to turn on when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance device to record when a door lock is engaged. You can also have an action take place simply based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to review what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds complicated, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just touch what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door is opened, you can choose which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be implemented to run 24/7 or only for certain times.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily chores off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while attaining better security for your household. Start designing your smart home in Augusta today by placing a call to (706) 780-3805 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.