How to implement smart home automation actions and scenes in your San Jose home

Home security is more than alarms and wires. In today’s world, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your smartphone app or central hub, you can incorporate custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to make your own in only a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes permit you to do so much, like changing temperature settings or examining video feeds remotely from your phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to function together. 

Here are some examples of what you could configure:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• Have doors lock automatically a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor trips
• Disarm and arm your system at specified moments

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You can even configure a varied end-of-day scene that adjust lights, activates your system, and locks doors in unison. The leading home security systems in San Jose make it simple with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your San Jose home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you won’t be able to master creating your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Mobile apps like Vivint’s let you make life easier with custom actions in only a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with many recommended automation actions you can simply toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Set the action by picking what you wish to occur. For example, you might want to activate your system, commence a surveillance recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. For example, you might want a light to switch on when a motion sensor trips or a video camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You can also initiate an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to check what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complicated, it’s far from it. Thanks to the app's usability, you can virtually just press what you want and slide rules on or off. If you would like a camera to record when a door lock activates, you can pick which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are more than one choices. The rule can be implemented to run 24/7 or only for particular timeframes.

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 implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while getting a better defense for your family. Start designing your smart home in San Jose today by calling (408) 790-0318 and connecting with a Vivint expert.