How to create smart home automation actions and scenes in your Myrtle Beach home

Home security is more than alarms and motion detectors. In today’s world, your modern system centers on smart home automation and pre-set scenes. Through your phone app or command panel, you can integrate custom actions that enhance your conveneince and security. Discover how to design your own in just a few straightforward steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do quite a bit, like adjusting thermostat settings or inspecting video feeds straight from your cell phone. But that’s only the beginning. Smart home automation permits different aspects of your home to function together. 

The following are a few examples of what you can do:

• Deactivate your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO detector or fire alarm trips
• Have doors lock automatically a specific amount of time after they are unlocked
• Program interior cameras to record if a motion sensor trips or door opens
• Activate and deactivate your system at specified moments

Your possibilities are practically limitless. You might even configure a multifaceted end-of-day scene that locks doors, lowers lights, and initiates your system simultaneously. The top home security systems in Myrtle Beach make it simple with easy-to-navigate smartphone apps.

Setting home automation actions in your Myrtle Beach home

If you’re hesitant about technology and think you won’t be able to manage creating your smart home automation, you should reconsider. Smartphone apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to make life easier with custom actions in merely a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-configured with many suggested automation actions you can just turn on.  

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

1. Launch the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Touch the menu icon in the upper left corner and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Press the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Pick what you wish to happen. To illustrate, you may want to arm your system, start a video recording, or illuminate a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, determine what will trigger the action. To illustrate, you might want a light to illuminate when a motion detector activates or a surveillance camera to record when a door lock activates. You might also schedule an action based on the time of day.
6. Then, you just have to review your action, make sure it’s saved, and toggle it on to implement it.

If it appears complex, it really isn’t. Thanks to the app's intuitive design, you can virtually just press what you want and toggle rules on or off. If you want a surveillance device to record when a door opens, you may choose 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 particular times.

Get innovative smart home automation by installing a Vivint security system

Take some of life’s routine responsibilities off your schedule and have your new Vivint smart home take care of them for you! Through smart home automation, you’ll discover a new level of convenience while obtaining better protection for your loved ones. Start designing your smart home in Myrtle Beach today by calling (843) 483-5033 and talking to a Vivint professional.