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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through the use of your phone app or command hub, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. See how to create your own in just a few easy steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do quite a bit, like adjusting temperature settings or checking video feeds directly from your smartphone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to function together. 

Here are some examples of what you could program:

• 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
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor activates
• Disarm and arm your system at certain times of day

Your possibilities are virtually limitless. You could even configure a multifaceted bedtime scene that lowers lights, arms your system, and locks doors in unison. The best home security systems in Salinas make it simple with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Salinas home

Customizing smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Mobile apps like Vivint’s allow you to add convenience to your life in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with various optional automation actions you can easily switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Pick what you want to take place. For instance, you might want to commence a video recording, activate your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. As an example, you might want a light to turn on when a motion detector activates or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock is engaged. You might also initiate an action based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to verify what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems complex, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you may just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door opens, you can choose which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also pick the door if there are multiple options. The rule can be set to run all day or only for certain timeframes.

Get advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting a better defense for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Salinas today by dialing (831) 400-5196 and talking to a Vivint specialist.