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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. In today’s world, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Learn how to create 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 adjusting smart thermostat settings or examining video feeds straight from your smartphone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work together. 

These are some examples of what you can do:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• Have doors lock automatically a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor activates or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated times of day

There are few limitations to what you can do. You can even create a comprehensive nighttime scene that locks doors, dims lights, and activates your system all at once. The best home security systems in Kennewick make it effortless with user-friendly cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Kennewick home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you’re not able to handle configuring your home’s automation, think again. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint enable you to add convenience to your life in only a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with some recommended automation actions you may simply switch on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Pick what you would like to occur. For instance, you might wish to start a camera recording, activate your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you could want a light to turn on when a motion sensor activates or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock is engaged. You might also have an action initiate according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems difficult, it’s not. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you can virtually just touch what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you will select which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be set to run 24/7 or only for specified timeframes.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while attaining better security for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Kennewick today by dialing (509) 794-3375 and talking to a Vivint specialist.