How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Eau Claire home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. By using your central touchscreen or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. Learn how to make your own in just a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do quite a bit, like adjusting smart thermostat settings or examining video streams directly 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 could program:

• Disarm your system 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 following a certain amount of time
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at certain times of day

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You could even configure a multifaceted end-of-day scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and activates your system simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Eau Claire make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Eau Claire home

Customizing smart home automation is more straightforward than you think, even if you are daunted by new technology. Mobile apps like Vivint’s allow you to add convenience to your life in only a few moments. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with various suggested automation actions you can easily turn on.  

Here’s a brief rundown of how to make a new action, also called a rule:

1. Launch the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Set the action by selecting what you would like to happen. To illustrate, you may wish to commence a surveillance recording, arm your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. As an example, you could want a light to turn on when a motion detector trips or a video camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You might also have an action initiate according to the hour.
6. Then, you just have to verify your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears difficult, it’s far from it. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just touch what you want and slide rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door opens, you will choose which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be set 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 routine chores off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while getting better security for your household. Start designing your smart home in Eau Claire today by dialing (715) 419-6703 and speaking to a Vivint expert.