How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your Little Rock home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. These days, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your smartphone app or command hub, you can implement custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Discover how to make your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do many things, like examining video streams or changing HVAC settings straight from your phone. But that’s merely the beginning. Smart home automation permits different parts of your home to function together. 

These are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a CO or smoke detector trips
• Lock doors a specific amount of time after they are opened
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor activates
• Arm and disarm your system at specified hours

There are few limitations to what you can do. You can even configure a varied end-of-day scene that lowers lights, activates your system, and secures doors all at once. The top home security systems in Little Rock make it simple with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Little Rock home

Configuring smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are daunted by new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with some suggested automation actions you may simply turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left corner and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Select what you wish to occur. To illustrate, you may wish to start a video recording, arm your system, or turn on a light. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. For example, you could want a light to switch on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock activates. You can also initiate an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems difficult, it’s not. Due to the app's usability, you may just press what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door lock activates, you may choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also select the door if there are more than one possibilities. The rule may be programmed for all hours or only for certain times.

Find innovative smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while attaining better security for your family. Start designing your smart home in Little Rock today by dialing (501) 510-8749 and talking to a Vivint specialist.