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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your hub or phone app, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Discover how to create your own in just a few easy steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do quite a bit, like checking video streams or changing temperature settings directly from your phone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to function together. 

These are a few examples of what you might program:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• Lock doors a specific amount of time after they are opened
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified moments

There aren’t many limits to what you might do. You might even establish a comprehensive nighttime scene that locks doors, dims lights, and activates your system in unison. The best home security systems in Bozeman make it simple with user-friendly mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Bozeman home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you won’t be able to handle customizing your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers let you add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with some recommended automation actions you may easily turn on.  

Here’s a general rundown of how to create a new action, also called a rule:

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Pick what you wish to happen. For instance, you might wish to switch on a light, arm your system, or start a camera recording. You’ll find various possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will cause the action. To illustrate, you might want a light to turn on when a motion sensor activates or a surveillance device to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also initiate an action according to the hour.
6. The last step is to verify your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complicated, it’s far from it. Due to the app's intuitive design, you may 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 can select which camera you want from a list. You will also pick the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule may be programmed to run all day or only for particular times.

Get advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily chores off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while getting better protection for your family. Design your smart home in Bozeman today by calling (406) 926-0255 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.