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

Home security is more than alarms and wires. Today, your advanced system revolves around smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your cell phone app or command panel, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. Discover how to make your own in only a few easy steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do so much, like changing smart thermostat settings or examining video footage remotely from your phone. But that’s merely the start. Smart home automation lets different parts of your home to work together. 

These are a few examples of what you might do:

• Disarm your alarm when a door opens with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• When doors are opened, have them lock again after a specified duration
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion detector trips
• Disarm and arm your system at specified moments

There aren’t many limits to what you might do. You can even establish a multifaceted end-of-day scene that arms your system, locks doors, and adjusts lighting in unison. The top home security systems in Fargo make it a breeze with easy-to-use mobile apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Fargo home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you’re not able to master customizing your home’s automation, think twice. Smartphone apps like Vivint’s allow you to add convenience to your life in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app even comes pre-loaded with some recommended automation actions you may simply toggle on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of the display and pick “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to create a new rule.
4. Begin by selecting what you wish to occur. For instance, you may want to activate your system, start a camera recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, determine what will cause the action. As an example, you may want a light to switch on when a motion detector triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a door lock is engaged. You might also program an action according to the hour.
6. Then, you just have to review your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it sounds complicated, it’s not. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just press what you want and slide rules off or on. If you would like a video camera to record when a door is opened, you can choose which camera to use from a list. You'll also select the door if there are more than one choices. The rule can be implemented to run all day or only for certain times of day.

Enjoy innovative 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 handle them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll benefit from a new level of convenience while attaining a better defense for your family. Start designing your smart home in Fargo today by placing a call to (701) 699-4489 and speaking to a Vivint specialist.