How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Stamford home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your cell phone app or command panel, you can implement custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do many things, like inspecting video feeds or adjusting temperature settings directly from your cell phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work together. 

The following are several examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• Once doors are opened, have them lock again after a set duration
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at certain hours

Your choices are practically limitless. You could even create a multifaceted bedtime scene that locks doors, dims lights, and arms your system all at once. The best home security systems in Stamford make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Stamford home

Programming smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are daunted by new technology. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint enable you to make life easier with custom actions in just a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with some recommended automation actions you can easily turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Select what you want to occur. To illustrate, you may wish to arm your system, commence a surveillance recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. For example, you may want a light to turn on when a motion sensor activates or a video camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You might also have an action take place simply based on the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to verify your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complicated, it’s far from it. Due to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just press what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door lock activates, you may select which camera to use from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule may be set to run 24/7 or only for particular times.

Get advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while attaining better protection for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Stamford today by calling (475) 250-2250 and talking to a Vivint professional.