How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Reno home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that elevate your security and convenience. Discover how to design your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do quite a bit, like adjusting thermostat settings or examining video streams directly from your cell phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to function together. 

These are several examples of what you might do:

• Disarm your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector activates
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a certain length of time
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified times of day

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You could even create a multifaceted nighttime scene that activates your system, locks doors, and dims lighting simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Reno make it simple with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Reno home

Programming smart home automation is easier than you think, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers let you simplify your life in only a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with various suggested automation actions you may simply toggle on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Set the action by selecting what you wish to happen. To illustrate, you could wish to switch on a light, arm your system, or begin a camera recording. You’ll find numerous options.
5. Next, determine what will cause the action. To illustrate, you could want a smart light to switch on when a motion sensor activates or a video camera to record when a smart lock opens. You might also have an action take place based on the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to review your work, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complicated, it’s far from it. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you may just tap what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door is opened, you may pick which camera to use from a list. You'll also pick the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be programmed to run 24/7 or only for certain times of day.

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

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a higher level of convenience while attaining better protection for your household. Customize your smart home in Reno today by dialing (775) 259-9515 and speaking to a Vivint professional.