How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Joliet home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your smartphone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. See how to create your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do quite a bit, like checking video streams or changing temperature settings remotely from your cell phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to work off each other. 

These are several examples of what you might program:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Have doors lock automatically a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Arm and disarm your system at specified moments

Your choices are nearly limitless. You could even establish a varied end-of-day scene that arms your system, secures doors, and adjusts lighting simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Joliet make it simple with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Joliet home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you’re not able to handle creating your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s enable you to add convenience to your life in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with some suggested automation actions you can simply 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. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Choose what you wish to take place. For instance, you could want to switch on a light, arm your system, or commence a camera recording. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, specify what will trigger the action. As an example, you might want a smart light to turn on when a motion sensor triggers or a video camera to record when a door lock is engaged. You can also have an action take place according to the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to check your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it seems difficult, it’s not. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door lock activates, you may pick which camera to use from a list. You will also pick the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule can be set to run all day or only for specified times.

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

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while getting a better defense for your household. Start designing your smart home in Joliet today by dialing (815) 427-4864 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.