How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Trenton home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. These days, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or cell phone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to make your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do quite a bit, like checking video streams or adjusting temperature settings remotely from your smartphone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work together. 

Here are a few examples of what you could configure:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• Re-lock doors a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Configure interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at certain hours

Your choices are nearly limitless. You could even create a multifaceted bedtime scene that adjust lights, activates your system, and secures doors all at once. The leading home security systems in Trenton make it effortless with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Trenton home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you can’t master configuring your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s allow you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with some optional automation actions you may simply turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Define the action by choosing what you want to occur. For example, you may want to switch on a light, arm your system, or begin a surveillance recording. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. For example, you may want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock opens. You may also have an action take place based on the hour.
6. The last step is to verify your action, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complicated, it’s not. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just tap what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you may choose which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule can be set to run 24/7 or only for particular times.

Get advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily tasks off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll discover another level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your household. Customize your smart home in Trenton today by dialing (609) 928-8223 and talking to a Vivint professional.