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

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. In today’s world, your advanced system centers on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. Through the use of your central touchscreen or cell phone app, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your home’s safety and convenience. See how to make your own in only a few easy steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes allow you to do many things, like adjusting thermostat settings or checking video streams remotely from your smartphone. But that’s only the start. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to function together. 

Here are some examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone unlocks the door with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• After doors are opened, have them lock again following a certain amount of time
• Set interior cameras to record if a door opens or motion sensor trips
• Arm and disarm your system at certain moments

There’s no limit to what you might do. You could even configure a multifaceted nighttime scene that dims lights, activates your system, and locks doors simultaneously. The best home security systems in Bakersfield make it a breeze with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Bakersfield home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you can’t manage configuring your home’s automation, think again. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers let you simplify your life in only a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with some suggested automation actions you may easily toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the top left of your screen and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to start a new rule.
4. Begin by selecting what you would like to happen. To illustrate, you might want to switch on a light, arm your system, or start a video recording. You’ll find many options.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. As an example, you might want a light to turn on when a motion sensor triggers or a surveillance camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You might also have an action occur based on the hour.
6. The last step is to check what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it appears complex, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's user-friendliness, you may just touch what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you want a video camera to record when a door lock activates, you can choose which camera to use from a list. You will also choose the door if there’s more than one possibility. The rule may be implemented to run all day or only for particular timeframes.

Enjoy advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday chores off your plate and let your new Vivint smart home manage them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while getting better security for your household. Design your smart home in Bakersfield today by calling (661) 732-2557 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.