How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Alpharetta home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. 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 implement custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Learn how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do many things, like inspecting video feeds or adjusting HVAC settings directly from your smartphone. But that’s really just the start. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to work off each other. 

Here are several examples of what you can program:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector activates
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Disarm and arm your system at designated hours

Your options are practically limitless. You can even configure a multifaceted bedtime scene that lowers lights, activates your system, and secures doors in unison. The leading home security systems in Alpharetta make it simple with user-friendly mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Alpharetta home

Customizing smart home automation is easier than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s enable you to simplify your life in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various recommended automation actions you may just turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Begin by selecting what you wish to take place. For example, you could want to turn on a light, arm your system, or begin a camera recording. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you might want a light to illuminate when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock is engaged. You might also have an action occur according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it seems complex, it’s far from it. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you may just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you may select which camera to initiate from a list. You will also pick the door if there are different choices. The rule may be set to run all day or only for particular times.

Get innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine chores off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while obtaining better security for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Alpharetta today by calling (678) 379-1627 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.