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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. In today’s world, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your smartphone app or command hub, you can incorporate custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Learn how to design your own in just a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do many things, like changing thermostat settings or examining video footage straight from your cell phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to function together. 

Here are some examples of what you might do:

• Disarm your system when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Lock doors a specific amount of time after they are unlocked
• Set indoor cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at specified moments

Your possibilities are practically limitless. You could even establish a varied bedtime scene that arms your system, secures doors, and lowers lighting in unison. The top home security systems in Napa make it effortless with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Napa home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to master configuring your home’s automation, think again. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint enable you to simplify your life in just a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with various recommended automation actions you may just toggle on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Set the action by selecting what you want to take place. For example, you might want to activate your system, begin a camera recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. For example, you could want a light to illuminate when a motion detector activates or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock opens. You may also have an action initiate according to the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds complex, it’s not. Thanks to the app's usability, you may just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door lock activates, you will choose which camera you want from a list. You'll also pick the door if there are different options. The rule can be set to run all day or only for particular timeframes.

Find innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine tasks off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your family. Start designing your smart home in Napa today by placing a call to (707) 895-5704 and talking to a Vivint professional.