How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Port St. Lucie home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. In today’s world, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your hub or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Discover how to create your own in only a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do quite a bit, like checking video feeds or changing thermostat settings remotely from your cell phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation permits different parts of your home to function together. 

Here are some examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Re-lock doors a set amount of time after they are opened
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor activates or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You might even establish a multifaceted nighttime scene that arms your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting in unison. The top home security systems in Port St. Lucie make it effortless with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Port St. Lucie home

Customizing smart home automation is more straightforward than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Mobile apps like Vivint’s allow you to make life easier with custom actions in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with many optional automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

Here’s a general rundown of how to create a new action, also referred to 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 pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Select what you wish to take place. To illustrate, you could want to switch on a light, arm your system, or start a camera recording. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. As an example, you could want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor triggers or a video camera to record when a door lock is engaged. You can also program an action based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems complicated, it really isn’t. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you may just press what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you would like a video camera to record when a door lock activates, you may select which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there are different choices. The rule can be programmed to run all day or only for specified timeframes.

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

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy another level of convenience while getting a better defense for your family. Design your smart home in Port St. Lucie today by calling (772) 257-4553 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.