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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your cell phone app or central hub, you can incorporate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. See how to design your own in only a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do quite a bit, like adjusting thermostat settings or inspecting video streams directly from your phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work together. 

These are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Once doors are opened, have them lock again following a specified length of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at designated moments

Your choices are nearly limitless. You can even establish a multifaceted bedtime scene that adjust lights, activates your system, and locks doors all at once. The leading home security systems in Springfield make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Springfield home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you won’t be able to handle creating your home’s automation, think twice. Cell phone apps like the one from Vivint enable you to add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various optional automation actions you may easily switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Choose what you want to happen. To illustrate, you might want to start a video recording, activate your system, or turn on a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. For example, you could want a light to switch on when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock opens. You can also initiate an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to check your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complicated, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you may just touch what you want and switch rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door opens, you may choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also pick the door if there are different choices. The rule may be programmed to run 24/7 or only for specified timeframes.

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

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while attaining better security for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Springfield today by dialing (413) 277-7517 and talking to a Vivint specialist.