How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Long Island home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your hub or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. See how to create your own in just a few easy steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like adjusting thermostat settings or checking video footage straight from your smartphone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation permits different parts of your home to function together. 

The following are several examples of what you can configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke 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 trips or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at designated moments

Your choices are virtually limitless. You might even configure a multifaceted bedtime scene that adjust lights, arms your system, and fastens doors in unison. The top home security systems in Long Island make it simple with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Long Island home

Customizing smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint allow you to add convenience to your life in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various recommended automation actions you can simply turn on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Set the action by selecting what you wish to take place. For instance, you might wish to illuminate a light, arm your system, or begin a camera recording. You’ll find numerous options.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. To illustrate, you might want a light to switch on when a motion detector trips or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock activates. You can also have an action take place simply based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to verify what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complex, it’s not. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just tap what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you will pick which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule can be programmed to run 24/7 or only for particular timeframes.

Find the best in smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while attaining better security for your household. Design your smart home in Long Island today by dialing (631) 502-4004 and speaking to a Vivint professional.