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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your cell phone app or command hub, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your conveneince and security. See how to design your own in only a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes allow you to do so much, like inspecting video feeds or changing HVAC settings remotely from your phone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work off each other. 

These are some examples of what you might program:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector activates
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a set amount of time
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor triggers
• Disarm and arm your system at designated moments

Your options are virtually limitless. You could even establish a multifaceted bedtime scene that lowers lights, activates your system, and secures doors simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Gulfport make it effortless with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Gulfport home

Programming smart home automation is more straightforward than you realize, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to make life easier with custom actions in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with various optional automation actions you can easily turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Begin by selecting what you want to take place. For instance, you may want to activate your system, begin a video recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. To illustrate, you could want a smart light to switch on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock activates. You might also program an action simply based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds difficult, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just touch what you want and slide rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door lock activates, you can choose which camera to initiate from a list. You will also select the door if there are more than one possibilities. The rule can be implemented to run all day or only for specified timeframes.

Enjoy the best in smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll discover a higher level of convenience while attaining better protection for your family. Start designing your smart home in Gulfport today by calling (228) 338-1467 and speaking to a Vivint expert.