How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Sioux City home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or smartphone app, you can implement custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Learn how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do many things, like examining video streams or adjusting temperature settings straight from your smartphone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work off each other. 

The following are some examples of what you could do:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a certain duration
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at designated moments

Your options are virtually limitless. You might even establish a comprehensive end-of-day scene that activates your system, locks doors, and adjusts lighting all at once. The top home security systems in Sioux City make it simple with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Sioux City home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t manage configuring your smart home automation, think again. Cell phone apps like the one from Vivint allow you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with various suggested automation actions you can easily turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Pick what you wish to occur. For instance, you might wish to commence a camera recording, activate your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. To illustrate, you could want a light to switch on when a motion detector triggers or a video camera to record when a smart lock activates. You can also have an action take place based on 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 sounds complex, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you may just tap what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door is opened, you can 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 24/7 or only for certain timeframes.

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

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while attaining better protection for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Sioux City today by placing a call to (712) 600-3453 and speaking to a Vivint professional.