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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your command panel or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to create your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do many things, like changing thermostat settings or inspecting video feeds straight from your phone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work together. 

These are a few examples of what you might configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• When doors are opened, have them lock again after a certain amount of time
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You might even establish a comprehensive bedtime scene that adjust lights, arms your system, and locks doors all at once. The leading home security systems in Lakeland make it simple with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Lakeland home

Configuring smart home automation is more straightforward than you realize, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint let you add convenience to your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with various optional automation actions you may easily toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Pick what you wish to take place. For example, you may want to activate your system, begin a video recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. To illustrate, you might want a light to switch on when a motion sensor activates or a video camera to record when a door lock is engaged. You can also initiate an action based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to review your action, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems complex, it’s not. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you can virtually just tap what you want and switch rules on or off. If you would like a video camera to record when a door is opened, you may choose which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be programmed to run 24/7 or only for particular times of day.

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

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your household. Start designing your smart home in Lakeland today by dialing (863) 591-5048 and connecting with a Vivint professional.