How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Shreveport home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your cell phone app or central hub, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. See how to create your own in just a few easy steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do many things, like examining video streams or changing temperature settings remotely from your phone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to function together. 

Here are several examples of what you might do:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector activates
• After doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a specified duration
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor trips or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at specified hours

There aren’t many limits to what you may do. You might even create a comprehensive bedtime scene that activates your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting in unison. The best home security systems in Shreveport make it effortless with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Shreveport home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to handle customizing your smart home automation, think twice. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with some recommended automation actions you may easily toggle on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Define the action by selecting what you want to happen. For instance, you could wish to activate your system, start a surveillance recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. As an example, you might want a smart light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a door lock opens. You might also have an action occur simply based on the hour.
6. The last step is to review your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complex, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's usability, you may just tap what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door opens, you may choose which camera you want from a list. You will also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be implemented to run 24/7 or only for certain times.

Get advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Shreveport today by placing a call to (318) 612-1329 and talking to a Vivint expert.