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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your phone app or command hub, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. Learn how to make your own in just a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do so much, like checking video streams or adjusting thermostat settings remotely from your phone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to work together. 

These are several examples of what you can configure:

• Disarm your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• After doors are opened, have them lock again after a specified duration
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at certain times of day

There’s no limit to what you can do. You might even establish a multifaceted nighttime scene that secures doors, dims lights, and initiates your system simultaneously. The top home security systems in Stockton make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Stockton home

Programming smart home automation is more straightforward than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with some optional automation actions you may simply switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Select what you wish to occur. For example, you may wish to arm your system, begin a camera recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. For example, you might want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You might also program an action simply based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds difficult, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just tap what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door lock activates, you can choose which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule can be implemented for all hours or only for particular times of day.

Get advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily chores off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while attaining better protection for your family. Start designing your smart home in Stockton today by dialing (209) 379-0036 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.