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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. Today, your modern system revolves around smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your cell phone app or central hub, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. See how to make your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do so much, like adjusting thermostat settings or inspecting video feeds directly from your smartphone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to function together. 

These are several examples of what you can program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO detector or fire alarm triggers
• Re-lock doors a specific amount of time after they are opened
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector triggers
• Arm and disarm your system at specified times of day

Your choices are practically limitless. You can even create a varied nighttime scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and arms your system all at once. The best home security systems in Lafayette make it a breeze with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Lafayette home

Configuring smart home automation is more straightforward than you think, even if you are hesitant about new technology. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s allow you to simplify your life in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with various recommended automation actions you can just toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the upper left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Choose what you want to happen. To illustrate, you might wish to switch on a light, arm your system, or start a surveillance recording. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, specify what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you might want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a video camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You might also program an action according to the hour.
6. The last step is to review your work, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it appears difficult, it really isn’t. Because of the app's intuitive design, you may just touch what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you can pick which camera you want from a list. You will also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule can be implemented for all hours or only for specified times.

Find innovative smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily chores off your to-do list and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while attaining better security for your loved ones. Design your smart home in Lafayette today by calling (337) 226-0040 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.