How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Lansing home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your cell phone app or command hub, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. Learn how to create your own in only a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

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

These are several examples of what you can program:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• Lock doors a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at certain times of day

There aren’t many limits to what you might do. You could even create a multifaceted bedtime scene that adjust lights, arms your system, and fastens doors simultaneously. The best home security systems in Lansing make it simple with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Lansing home

Configuring smart home automation is more straightforward than you realize, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint enable you to add convenience to your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many optional automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

Here’s a quick rundown of how to customize a new action, also called a rule:

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Begin by picking what you wish to happen. To illustrate, you might wish to begin a video recording, arm your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. To illustrate, you may want a light to switch on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also program an action simply based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to check your work, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems complicated, it’s not. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you can virtually just press what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you will choose which camera you want from a list. You will also select the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule can be implemented for all hours or only for certain timeframes.

Get the best in smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your family. Start designing your smart home in Lansing today by calling (517) 760-8950 and talking to a Vivint professional.