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

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

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do many things, like checking video streams or changing temperature settings remotely from your phone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work together. 

The following are several examples of what you could configure:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm activates
• Once doors are opened, have them lock again after a certain duration
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor triggers
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified moments

Your options are virtually limitless. You might even create a multifaceted end-of-day scene that arms your system, locks doors, and dims lighting simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Wichita make it effortless with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Wichita home

Configuring smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s allow you to simplify your life in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with many recommended automation actions you can just turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Define the action by picking what you would like to happen. To illustrate, you may want to activate your system, commence a camera recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. For example, you could want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor triggers or a video camera to record when a front door lock opens. You may also schedule an action simply based on the hour.
6. The last step is to review your work, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds difficult, it’s far from it. Due to the app's usability, you can virtually just touch what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you will choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be implemented to run 24/7 or only for specified timeframes.

Get innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy another level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Wichita today by placing a call to (316) 844-6283 and connecting with a Vivint professional.