How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Ann Arbor home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your modern system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your hub or cell phone app, you can implement custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Discover 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 many things, like inspecting video feeds or changing HVAC settings directly from your phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation permits different parts of your home to work off each other. 

Here are some examples of what you could do:

• Disarm your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Activate and deactivate your system at certain times of day

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You can even establish a varied end-of-day scene that dims lights, activates your system, and secures doors simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Ann Arbor make it effortless with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Ann Arbor home

Customizing smart home automation is easier than you realize, even if you are daunted by new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers let you add convenience to your life in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with various recommended automation actions you may just switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Define the action by picking what you would like to occur. To illustrate, you may want to commence a camera recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. For example, you might want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You might also have an action initiate simply based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complicated, it really isn’t. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just tap what you want and slide rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door lock activates, you may pick which camera you want from a list. You will also select the door if there are multiple possibilities. The rule may be programmed to run all day or only for particular timeframes.

Find 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 have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover another level of convenience while getting a better defense for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Ann Arbor today by placing a call to (734) 206-7166 and talking to a Vivint specialist.