How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Chattanooga home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. In today’s world, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your central touchscreen or cell phone app, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Learn how to design your own in just a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like adjusting thermostat settings or examining video footage remotely from your smartphone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to work together. 

The following are some examples of what you can configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• After doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain amount of time
• Configure interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Activate and deactivate your system at designated times of day

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You can even create a varied nighttime scene that arms your system, locks doors, and adjusts lighting all at once. The leading home security systems in Chattanooga make it simple with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Chattanooga home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t manage creating your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to simplify your life in only a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with various recommended automation actions you may easily toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Define the action by choosing what you want to take place. For example, you might wish to start a camera recording, arm your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. As an example, you could want a light to switch on when a motion detector activates or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock opens. You can also have an action take place based on the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to verify your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it seems difficult, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door opens, you may choose which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there are different options. The rule may be implemented to run all day or only for certain times of day.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your family. Start designing your smart home in Chattanooga today by dialing (423) 561-9767 and talking to a Vivint professional.