How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Milwaukee home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. Through the use of your command panel or smartphone app, you can integrate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. Discover how to design your own in only a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do quite a bit, like changing temperature settings or checking video feeds directly from your cell phone. But that’s really just the start. Smart home automation permits different parts of your home to work together. 

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

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector trips
• After doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a set duration
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at specified moments

Your choices are practically limitless. You might even create a comprehensive nighttime scene that secures doors, dims lights, and activates your system all at once. The best home security systems in Milwaukee make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Milwaukee home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you won’t be able to manage creating your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Cell phone apps like Vivint’s enable you to add convenience to your life in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many optional automation actions you can easily toggle on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your cell phone.
2. Press the menu icon in the top left of your screen and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Begin by selecting what you want to occur. To illustrate, you could wish to arm your system, begin a surveillance recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. To illustrate, you might want a light to turn on when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance device to record when a door lock is engaged. You may also have an action take place according to the hour.
6. Then, you just have to verify your work, save the new rule, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it appears difficult, it really isn’t. Due to the app's intuitive design, you essentially just tap what you want and switch rules off or on. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you may pick which camera you want from a list. You'll also choose the door if there’s more than one option. The rule may be programmed to run 24/7 or only for specified timeframes.

Find the best in smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your to-do list 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 attaining a better defense for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Milwaukee today by dialing (414) 409-5889 and speaking to a Vivint professional.