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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. These days, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your central touchscreen or smartphone app, you can incorporate custom actions that elevate your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to make your own in only a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do many things, like checking video streams or changing temperature settings remotely from your phone. But that’s really just the start. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work off each other. 

These are some examples of what you could do:

• Deactivate your alarm when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your main entrance when a fire alarm or CO detector activates
• Once doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a specified amount of time
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion detector activates or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated moments

There’s no limit to what you can do. You could even configure a multifaceted nighttime scene that activates your system, secures doors, and dims lighting all at once. The top home security systems in Brooklyn make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Brooklyn home

If you’re apprehensive about technology and think you can’t manage customizing your smart home automation, think again. Mobile apps like the one from Vivint let you add convenience to your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many optional automation actions you may just turn on.  

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

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Pick what you want to take place. For instance, you might want to commence a surveillance recording, activate your system, or illuminate a light. You’ll find numerous choices.
5. Next, indicate what will initiate the action. To illustrate, you might want a smart light to turn on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock opens. You can also schedule an action based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to review your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds complicated, it’s not. Because of the app's usability, you may just tap what you want and switch rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door is opened, you can select which camera you want from a list. You'll also select the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule may be implemented to run 24/7 or only for specified times.

Enjoy advanced smart home automation by choosing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while attaining better security for your family. Design your smart home in Brooklyn today by dialing (929) 552-2194 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.