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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your cell phone app or command panel, you can incorporate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Learn 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 many things, like adjusting thermostat settings or checking video footage remotely from your smartphone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to function together. 

These are some examples of what you might configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• When doors are opened, have them lock again following a specified amount of time
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at designated moments

Your possibilities are practically limitless. You might even create a varied end-of-day scene that locks doors, dims lighting, and initiates your system simultaneously. The best home security systems in Missoula make it effortless with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Missoula home

Customizing smart home automation is easier than you think, even if you are daunted by new technology. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to make life easier with custom actions in just a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with various optional automation actions you may easily switch on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Begin by picking what you would like to occur. To illustrate, you could want to start a surveillance recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. For example, you might want a light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also have an action occur according to the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to check your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complicated, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you can virtually just press what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you can choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are more than one choices. The rule can be programmed for all hours or only for specified times of day.

Enjoy the best in smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily tasks off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By using smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while getting a better defense for your household. Start designing your smart home in Missoula today by dialing (406) 926-0627 and talking to a Vivint professional.