How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Wichita Falls home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. In today’s world, your innovative system focuses on smart home automation and pre-configured scenes. By using your cell phone app or command panel, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Learn how to design your own in just a few simple steps. 

What is possible with smart home automation?

Modern smart homes let you do quite a bit, like examining video footage or adjusting temperature settings straight from your phone. But that’s only scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different elements of your home to work off each other. 

Here are several examples of what you can configure:

• Disarm your system when a door is opened with a PIN
• Unlock your front door when a fire alarm or CO detector triggers
• When doors are unlocked, have them lock again after a certain duration
• Configure indoor cameras to record if a motion detector triggers or door opens
• Disarm and arm your system at specified hours

Your possibilities are nearly limitless. You could even establish a multifaceted nighttime scene that secures doors, dims lighting, and activates your system all at once. The best home security systems in Wichita Falls make it simple with easy-to-navigate mobile apps.

Configuring home automation actions in your Wichita Falls home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you can’t master creating your home’s automation, think twice. Cell phone apps like the one Vivint offers allow you to add convenience to your life in just a minute or two. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many suggested automation actions you may simply toggle on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left corner and choose “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Pick what you would like to happen. For instance, you might want to commence a video recording, arm your system, or turn on a light. You’ll find various options.
5. Next, determine what will cause the action. To illustrate, you might want a smart light to illuminate when a motion sensor trips or a surveillance camera to record when a door lock activates. You may also have an action take place based on the hour.
6. The last step is to verify what you’ve done, save the new rule, and toggle it on to activate it.

If it sounds complex, it’s not. Due to the app's user-friendliness, you essentially just press what you want and switch rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door opens, you can select which camera to initiate from a list. You will also choose the door if there’s more than one choice. The rule can be set for all hours or only for certain timeframes.

Find innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s everyday tasks off your schedule 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 better security for your household. Start designing your smart home in Wichita Falls today by dialing (940) 209-1266 and connecting with a Vivint specialist.