How to use smart home automation actions and scenes in your Las Cruces home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. Today, your innovative system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or cell phone app, you can incorporate custom actions that improve your security and convenience. Learn how to create your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes allow you to do so much, like changing smart thermostat settings or examining video streams remotely from your cell phone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work off each other. 

These are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your system when a door unlocks with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector trips
• After doors are unlocked, have them lock again following a specified duration
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor triggers
• Activate and deactivate your system at certain times of day

There aren’t many limits to what you can do. You could even configure a multifaceted bedtime scene that arms your system, locks doors, and adjusts lighting simultaneously. The top home security systems in Las Cruces make it a breeze with user-friendly mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Las Cruces home

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

Here’s a general rundown of how to customize a new action, also called a rule:

1. Open the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Touch the “+” sign to start a new action.
4. Define the action by selecting what you want to occur. For example, you might wish to illuminate a light, arm your system, or start a camera recording. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. To illustrate, you may want a light to illuminate when a motion detector activates or a surveillance camera to record when a front door lock is engaged. You may also initiate an action simply based on the time of day.
6. Finally, you only have to check your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it appears complex, it really isn’t. Due to the app's usability, you can virtually just touch what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a camera to record when a door opens, you may select which camera to initiate from a list. You will also select the door if there are more than one possibilities. The rule may be programmed for all hours or only for particular timeframes.

Get innovative smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a new level of convenience while obtaining better security for your household. Customize your smart home in Las Cruces today by calling (575) 567-8689 and talking to a Vivint expert.