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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. These days, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through your phone app or central hub, you can integrate custom actions that improve your home’s safety and convenience. See how to make your own in only a few simple steps. 

What’s possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes permit you to do quite a bit, like examining video footage or adjusting thermostat settings straight from your phone. But that’s merely scratching the surface. Smart home automation allows different elements of your home to work together. 

These are several examples of what you can do:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Lock doors a specific amount of time after they are unlocked
• Set indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor trips
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified hours

Your possibilities are virtually limitless. You can even establish a multifaceted bedtime scene that activates your system, locks doors, and lowers lighting all at once. The best home security systems in Brownsville make it a breeze with easy-to-use smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Brownsville home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you won’t be able to manage configuring your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like the one from Vivint let you make life easier with custom actions in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app even comes pre-configured with many suggested automation actions you can simply switch on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Select what you wish to occur. To illustrate, you might wish to illuminate a light, arm your system, or commence a camera recording. You’ll find many possibilities.
5. Next, determine what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you could want a light to switch on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock activates. You may also initiate an action according to the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to check what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it appears complicated, it’s far from it. Due to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just tap what you want and switch rules on or off. If you want a camera to record when a door is opened, you will choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also choose the door if there are more than one possibilities. The rule can be programmed to run all day or only for specified times.

Find advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy another level of convenience while attaining better security for your household. Customize your smart home in Brownsville today by placing a call to (956) 948-3547 and talking to a Vivint professional.