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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your command panel or cell phone app, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Learn how to design your own in only a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do many things, like adjusting temperature settings or inspecting video footage remotely from your phone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to work together. 

The following are several examples of what you might do:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain amount of time
• Configure interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at designated hours

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You might even establish a multifaceted bedtime scene that activates your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting simultaneously. The best home security systems in Oceanside make it simple with user-friendly mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Oceanside home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to manage configuring your smart home automation, think again. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to simplify your life in just a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with many suggested automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Define the action by selecting what you wish to take place. For instance, you could wish to arm your system, commence a camera recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. To illustrate, you might want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance device to record when a door lock activates. You may also have an action take place simply based on the hour.
6. The last step is to check your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears difficult, it’s far from it. Due to the app's intuitive design, you may just press what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door is opened, you may pick which camera to use from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be implemented to run 24/7 or only for particular times of day.

Find innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine chores off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a higher level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Oceanside today by calling (760) 304-1641 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.