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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. These days, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your cell phone app or command hub, you can implement custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Discover how to design your own in only a few easy steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Leading smart homes let you do so much, like inspecting video streams or changing thermostat settings directly from your phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation allows different parts of your home to function together. 

These are a few examples of what you could configure:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Re-lock doors a set amount of time after they are unlocked
• Set interior cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at designated hours

There are few limitations to what you might do. You could even establish a multifaceted end-of-day scene that dims lights, arms your system, and locks doors in unison. The best home security systems in Ocala make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Ocala home

Programming smart home automation is simpler than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint enable you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many suggested automation actions you may just switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Define the action by choosing what you want to happen. To illustrate, you may want to begin a video recording, arm your system, or switch on a light. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. For example, you may want a smart light to switch on when a motion detector activates or a video camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You might also schedule an action according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to review your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complicated, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's usability, you may just touch what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door is opened, you can select which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be programmed to run all day or only for certain timeframes.

Get advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday responsibilities off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while attaining better security for your family. Start designing your smart home in Ocala today by dialing (352) 922-3678 and connecting with a Vivint professional.