How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Johnson City home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your cell phone app or command panel, you can implement custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to make your own in only a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do quite a bit, like adjusting thermostat settings or inspecting video footage straight from your smartphone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to work off each other. 

The following are several examples of what you could configure:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a set duration
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion sensor trips or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified hours

Your choices are virtually limitless. You can even establish a multifaceted nighttime scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and arms your system all at once. The best home security systems in Johnson City make it simple with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Johnson City home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you won’t be able to master configuring your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint enable you to simplify your life in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with many recommended automation actions you may just toggle on.  

Here’s a quick rundown of how to make 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 your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Begin by selecting what you want to take place. For instance, you could wish to activate your system, begin a video recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find numerous choices.
5. Next, determine what will cause the action. For example, you may want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You can also initiate an action simply based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to check your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it seems complex, it’s far from it. Due to the app's intuitive design, you may just touch what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door lock activates, you may choose which camera you want from a list. You will also choose the door if there are different possibilities. The rule may be implemented for all hours or only for certain timeframes.

Find advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover another level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your family. Design your smart home in Johnson City today by placing a call to (423) 537-4338 and talking to a Vivint professional.