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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through your command panel or phone app, you can implement custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. See how to make your own in only a few easy steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes let you do quite a bit, like checking video streams or adjusting HVAC settings remotely from your phone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to function together. 

Here are a few examples of what you could program:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• Lock doors a certain amount of time after they are opened
• Configure interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector activates
• Arm and disarm your system at specified times of day

There are few limitations to what you can do. You might even establish a multifaceted bedtime scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and initiates your system in unison. The leading home security systems in Portland make it a breeze with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Portland home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t handle creating your smart home automation, think again. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s allow you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many recommended automation actions you can easily switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to create a new action.
4. Set the action by choosing what you would like to take place. For example, you could wish to illuminate a light, arm your system, or start a camera recording. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. As an example, you could want a light to turn on when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock activates. You might also initiate an action simply based on the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to check your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems complex, it’s far from it. Because of the app's user-friendliness, you may just press what you want and slide rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door is opened, you will choose which camera you want from a list. You will also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be set for all hours or only for specified times of day.

Get advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine chores off your schedule 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 getting better protection for your household. Design your smart home in Portland today by dialing (503) 213-9485 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.