How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your State College home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your hub or smartphone app, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. See how to make your own in only a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes permit you to do many things, like inspecting video streams or changing temperature settings straight from your smartphone. But that’s really just scratching the surface. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work together. 

These are a few examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a certain amount of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Disarm and arm your system at designated moments

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You might even create a comprehensive end-of-day scene that adjust lights, activates your system, and secures doors simultaneously. The leading home security systems in State College make it a breeze with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your State College home

Programming smart home automation is easier than you think, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers let you make life easier with custom actions in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various recommended automation actions you can easily switch on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Pick what you would like to happen. To illustrate, you may want to switch on a light, arm your system, or commence a video recording. You’ll find numerous choices.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you may want a smart light to illuminate when a motion detector trips or a video camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You may also initiate an action based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to check your action, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complex, it’s not. Due 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 is opened, you can choose which camera to initiate from a list. You will also pick the door if there are multiple choices. The rule may be implemented for all hours or only for specified timeframes.

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

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy another level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your household. Design your smart home in State College today by dialing (814) 752-4276 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.