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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your hub or cell phone app, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. See how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do so much, like checking video streams or changing temperature settings remotely from your phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work together. 

The following are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• Lock doors a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Program interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified times of day

There are few limitations to what you may do. You might even establish a varied nighttime scene that dims lights, activates your system, and locks doors all at once. The best home security systems in Mesa make it effortless with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Mesa home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you can’t handle creating your smart home automation, think again. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to make life easier with custom actions in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with some recommended automation actions you may simply toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Set the action by selecting what you want to take place. For example, you could want to turn on a light, arm your system, or begin a camera recording. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. For example, you could want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a door lock is engaged. You can also program an action according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds difficult, it’s far from it. Due to the app's usability, you can virtually just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door opens, you will choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also select the door if there are multiple options. The rule can be programmed to run all day or only for specified times of day.

Get advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting better protection for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Mesa today by placing a call to (480) 568-6350 and talking to a Vivint specialist.