How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Santa Clarita home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. In today’s world, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your cell phone app or command hub, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. See how to design your own in just a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do many things, like changing temperature settings or checking video feeds remotely from your cell phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to work together. 

These are a few examples of what you can program:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm activates
• After doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain duration
• Program interior cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated hours

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You can even establish a comprehensive bedtime scene that lowers lights, activates your system, and fastens doors all at once. The best home security systems in Santa Clarita make it simple with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Santa Clarita home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to manage configuring your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to add convenience to your life in only a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with many recommended automation actions you can easily switch 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 smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Begin by choosing what you would like to occur. For example, you may wish to start a video recording, arm your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find numerous options.
5. Next, specify what will trigger the action. For example, you may want a light to illuminate when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock opens. You may also have an action initiate based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to review what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds complicated, it really isn’t. Due to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just tap what you want and slide rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door opens, you will choose which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule may be set for all hours or only for particular times of day.

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

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll discover another level of convenience while obtaining better security for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Santa Clarita today by dialing (661) 718-4936 and connecting with a Vivint professional.