How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your El Paso home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your central touchscreen or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. See how to design your own in only a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do many things, like changing smart thermostat settings or checking video streams directly from your phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work off each other. 

These are several examples of what you could do:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Have doors lock automatically a specific amount of time after they are unlocked
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at certain hours

Your choices are nearly limitless. You might even establish a varied nighttime scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and activates your system simultaneously. The leading home security systems in El Paso make it a breeze with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your El Paso home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t master customizing your home’s automation, think twice. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to simplify your life in merely a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various optional automation actions you can just switch on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Choose what you would like to take place. For instance, you could want to turn on a light, arm your system, or start a surveillance recording. You’ll find numerous choices.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. For example, you may want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance device to record when a door lock opens. You may also have an action initiate based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complicated, it’s not. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you may just press what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door lock activates, you can choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are multiple possibilities. The rule may be implemented for all hours or only for particular times.

Get advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily chores off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while obtaining better security for your household. Start designing your smart home in El Paso today by dialing (915) 465-3064 and connecting with a Vivint expert.