How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your West Palm Beach home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your phone app or command panel, you can implement custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. See how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like checking video feeds or adjusting temperature settings straight from your phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work off each other. 

These are a few examples of what you might do:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a certain duration
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Activate and deactivate your system at designated times of day

There are few limitations to what you can do. You can even configure a multifaceted end-of-day scene that secures doors, dims lights, and initiates your system simultaneously. The leading home security systems in West Palm Beach make it a breeze with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your West Palm Beach home

Configuring smart home automation is simpler than you realize, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint allow you to simplify your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with many suggested automation actions you can just toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Begin by selecting what you wish to happen. For example, you might want to switch on a light, arm your system, or start a surveillance recording. You’ll find numerous options.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. For example, you might want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also initiate an action according to the hour.
6. The last step is to verify your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complex, it really isn’t. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you may just tap what you want and slide rules on or off. If you would like a video camera to record when a door opens, you can pick which camera you want from a list. You will also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be set to run 24/7 or only for specified times of day.

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

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while getting better protection for your family. Start designing your smart home in West Palm Beach today by calling (561) 556-7696 and talking to a Vivint professional.