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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. In today’s world, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your command panel or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Discover how to make your own in just a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes allow you to do so much, like examining video footage or changing temperature settings straight from your phone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different parts of your home to work together. 

Here are several examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• After doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain length of time
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified times of day

Your choices are virtually limitless. You might even establish a varied nighttime scene that activates your system, secures doors, and adjusts lighting in unison. The leading home security systems in Chicago make it simple with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Chicago home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you’re not able to master customizing your smart home automation, think again. Cell phone apps like the one from Vivint allow you to make life easier with custom actions in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with some optional automation actions you may simply toggle on.  

Here’s a brief rundown of how to customize a new action, also called a rule:

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Select what you want to happen. For instance, you may want to activate your system, commence a surveillance recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you could want a light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a door lock activates. You may also schedule an action simply based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complex, it’s far from it. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you can virtually just touch what you want and switch rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door opens, you can choose which camera you want from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be programmed for all hours or only for particular times of day.

Enjoy advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while obtaining better security for your household. Design your smart home in Chicago today by dialing (312) 626-4802 and talking to a Vivint expert.