How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Jacksonville home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your central touchscreen or smartphone app, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. Discover how to make your own in only a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes allow you to do many things, like adjusting thermostat settings or inspecting video footage straight from your cell phone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation allows different parts of your home to function together. 

Here are some examples of what you could do:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• When doors are opened, have them lock again following a specified length of time
• Program interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Arm and disarm your system at designated times of day

There’s no limit to what you can do. You might even create a multifaceted nighttime scene that activates your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting all at once. The leading home security systems in Jacksonville make it simple with user-friendly mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Jacksonville home

Programming smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are apprehensive about new technology. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s enable you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with some recommended automation actions you may easily switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Choose what you want to occur. For example, you could want to commence a camera recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. As an example, you might want a light to switch on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock opens. You may also initiate an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it seems difficult, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you can virtually just press what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door opens, you may select which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule can be set to run all day or only for specified times.

Find advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily responsibilities off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Jacksonville today by dialing (904) 977-6139 and talking to a Vivint expert.