How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your St. Petersburg home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. These days, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your smartphone app or central hub, you can integrate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. Discover how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do many things, like checking video footage or changing thermostat settings directly from your cell phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation lets different elements of your home to work together. 

The following are some examples of what you might do:

• Disarm your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a certain length of time
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor triggers
• Disarm and arm your system at specified hours

Your possibilities are virtually limitless. You can even establish a varied bedtime scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and initiates your system all at once. The best home security systems in St. Petersburg make it simple with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your St. Petersburg home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you won’t be able to manage creating your home’s automation, think again. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s enable you to add convenience to your life in only a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various recommended automation actions you may easily turn on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Set the action by choosing what you would like to happen. For instance, you could wish to start a surveillance recording, activate your system, or turn on a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. To illustrate, you might want a light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock activates. You might also have an action take place based on the hour.
6. The last step is to check your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems difficult, it really isn’t. Due to the app's intuitive design, you may just tap what you want and slide rules on or off. If you would like a surveillance device to record when a door lock activates, you may pick which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there are multiple possibilities. The rule may be implemented to run all day or only for particular times of day.

Enjoy innovative smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while getting better protection for your family. Start designing your smart home in St. Petersburg today by dialing (727) 353-8318 and talking to a Vivint specialist.