How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Fort Lauderdale home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your command panel or smartphone app, you can incorporate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Learn how to create your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do quite a bit, like inspecting video feeds or changing thermostat settings straight from your cell phone. But that’s really just the start. Smart home automation allows different parts of your home to function together. 

Here are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• After doors are opened, have them lock again after a specified amount of time
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Disarm and arm your system at specified moments

There’s no limit to what you might do. You can even configure a comprehensive end-of-day scene that activates your system, secures doors, and lowers lighting all at once. The best home security systems in Fort Lauderdale make it effortless with user-friendly mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Fort Lauderdale home

Configuring smart home automation is easier than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to add convenience to your life in only a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many optional automation actions you may just switch on.  

Here’s a brief rundown of how to create a new action, also known as a rule:

1. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Define the action by choosing what you wish to happen. To illustrate, you might wish to arm your system, commence a surveillance recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find numerous options.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. To illustrate, you may want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor activates or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock is engaged. You can also program an action simply based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to review what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it appears difficult, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's usability, you can virtually just tap what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door opens, you may choose which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there are different options. The rule may be programmed for all hours or only for particular times of day.

Find innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Fort Lauderdale today by placing a call to (954) 287-0437 and talking to a Vivint professional.