How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Lincoln home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. By using your central touchscreen or cell phone app, you can incorporate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. See how to create your own in just a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do many things, like checking video feeds or changing temperature settings straight from your smartphone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation lets different aspects of your home to work together. 

These are a few examples of what you could do:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• After doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a certain duration
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a motion detector trips or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated hours

Your choices are practically limitless. You could even configure a varied nighttime scene that locks doors, dims lighting, and initiates your system in unison. The best home security systems in Lincoln make it a breeze with user-friendly mobile apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Lincoln home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you’re not able to manage customizing your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Cell phone apps like the one from Vivint enable you to add convenience to your life in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-loaded with various optional automation actions you can simply toggle on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Choose what you would like to occur. For instance, you may wish to switch on a light, arm your system, or start a surveillance recording. You’ll find numerous possibilities.
5. Next, indicate what will cause the action. For example, you could want a light to turn on when a motion detector activates or a surveillance device to record when a door lock is engaged. You might also have an action occur according to the hour.
6. Then, you just have to verify your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds difficult, it’s far from it. Because of the app's intuitive design, you can virtually just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you will pick which camera you want 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 particular timeframes.

Get innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your schedule and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while getting better security for your loved ones. Customize your smart home in Lincoln today by dialing (402) 545-5763 and talking to a Vivint specialist.