How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Palm Springs home
Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your central touchscreen or smartphone app, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. Discover how to make your own in just a few straightforward steps.
What is possible with smart home automation?
Modern smart homes allow you to do many things, like inspecting video streams or adjusting thermostat settings directly from your smartphone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work together.
These are a few examples of what you can do:
- Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
- Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
- Lock doors a certain amount of time after they are opened
- Set interior cameras to record if a motion sensor trips or door opens
- Activate and deactivate your system at specified hours
Your choices are virtually limitless. You might even create a comprehensive end-of-day scene that secures doors, dims lights, and activates your system all at once. The best home security systems in Palm Springs make it simple with easy-to-use smartphone apps.
Creating home automation actions in your Palm Springs home
If you’re intimidated by technology and think you won’t be able to handle configuring your smart home automation, think again. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to make life easier with custom actions in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with many recommended automation actions you can simply turn on.
Here’s a general rundown of how to create a new action, also known as a rule:
- Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
- Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
- Press the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
- Choose what you would like to take place. For example, you might want to commence a surveillance recording, arm your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find various choices.
- Next, specify what will trigger the action. As an example, you may want a smart light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock is engaged. You might also have an action occur according to the hour.
- The last step is to verify your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.
If it seems difficult, it’s not. Due to the app's usability, you may just press what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door is opened, you may select which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there are different choices. The rule can be implemented to run all day or only for certain times.
Enjoy innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system
Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy another level of convenience while attaining better security for your household. Start designing your smart home in Palm Springs today by dialing (760) 334-5668 and connecting with a Vivint professional.