How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Fort Worth home

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your hub or phone app, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. Discover how to create your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like changing smart thermostat settings or inspecting video footage remotely from your phone. But that’s really just the start. Smart home automation allows different aspects of your home to function together. 

Here are some examples of what you might configure:

• Disarm your system when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a set duration
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated moments

Your options are practically limitless. You might even establish a varied bedtime scene that dims lights, arms your system, and locks doors simultaneously. The best home security systems in Fort Worth make it effortless with easy-to-use cell phone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Fort Worth home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you won’t be able to handle customizing your smart home automation, think twice. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers let you make life easier with custom actions in only a few moments. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with various suggested automation actions you can just switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of the display and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Pick what you would like to happen. To illustrate, you could want to illuminate a light, arm your system, or begin a surveillance recording. You’ll find numerous options.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. For example, you could want a light to illuminate when a motion detector triggers or a video camera to record when a front door lock opens. You can also have an action occur based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to review what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it sounds complicated, it’s not. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you may just touch what you want and switch rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door is opened, you can choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also pick the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule can be set to run all day or only for specified timeframes.

Find advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your plate and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from another level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your family. Customize your smart home in Fort Worth today by dialing (817) 241-5844 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.