How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Fort Wayne home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your central touchscreen or smartphone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. 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 adjusting thermostat settings or checking video feeds directly from your phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation permits different parts of your home to function together. 

The following are a few examples of what you might do:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• Re-lock doors a specific amount of time after they are opened
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified times of day

There are few limitations to what you may do. You can even configure a comprehensive end-of-day scene that arms your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting simultaneously. The best home security systems in Fort Wayne make it simple with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Fort Wayne home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you can’t manage configuring your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to simplify your life in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various recommended automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left corner and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Pick what you wish to take place. To illustrate, you may want to arm your system, start a camera recording, or turn on a light. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. To illustrate, you could want a light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You can also program an action simply based on the hour.
6. The last step is to check your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems complicated, it really isn’t. Due to the app's usability, you essentially just press what you want and switch rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door opens, you can select which camera to initiate from a list. You will also choose the door if there are more than one choices. The rule may be set to run 24/7 or only for specified times of day.

Enjoy the best in smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily chores off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy another level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your household. Start designing your smart home in Fort Wayne today by calling (260) 286-9602 and connecting with a Vivint professional.