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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your innovative system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your phone app or central hub, you can implement custom actions that enhance your security and convenience. See how to make your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do many things, like inspecting video footage or changing HVAC settings remotely from your phone. But that’s really just the beginning. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work off each other. 

The following are a few examples of what you can configure:

• Disarm your system when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• Have doors lock automatically a specific amount of time after they are opened
• Program indoor cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Activate and deactivate your system at certain moments

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You can even establish a varied bedtime scene that lowers lights, arms your system, and fastens doors simultaneously. The leading home security systems in Mansfield make it simple with user-friendly smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Mansfield home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you won’t be able to master customizing your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers let you simplify your life in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-programmed with various 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. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new action.
4. Select what you want to take place. For instance, you may wish to start a camera recording, arm your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find various choices.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. As an example, you could want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance device to record when a smart lock is engaged. You may also initiate an action according to the hour.
6. The last step is to review your action, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it appears complicated, it’s not. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you may just tap what you want and slide rules on or off. If you want a video camera to record when a door lock activates, you will choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule can be programmed to run 24/7 or only for particular timeframes.

Enjoy advanced smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily chores off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a higher level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your household. Start designing your smart home in Mansfield today by calling (419) 614-6093 and talking to a Vivint expert.