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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your hub or phone app, you can implement custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. See how to create your own in only a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes permit you to do so much, like checking video feeds or changing thermostat settings straight from your cell phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to function together. 

Here are several examples of what you can program:

• Disarm your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• Re-lock doors a set amount of time after they are opened
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at certain times of day

There are few limitations to what you might do. You might even establish a comprehensive bedtime scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and activates your system all at once. The best home security systems in Salem make it simple with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Salem home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you won’t be able to manage customizing your home’s automation, think twice. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint enable you to simplify your life in merely a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with some optional automation actions you can just switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Begin by selecting what you wish to occur. For example, you might want to illuminate a light, arm your system, or begin a video recording. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. For example, you might want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also program an action based on the hour.
6. Then, you just have to check your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complicated, it’s not. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you may just tap what you want and slide rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door opens, you will choose which camera to use from a list. You will also choose the door if there are different choices. The rule can be programmed for all hours or only for particular times.

Find advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while attaining better security for your household. Design your smart home in Salem today by calling (503) 994-1230 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.