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

Home security is more than door sensors and alarms. In today’s world, your advanced system focuses on smart home automation and pre-programmed scenes. By using your central touchscreen or phone app, you can implement custom actions that elevate your conveneince and security. Discover how to make your own in just a few simple steps. 

What can you do with smart home automation?

Advanced smart homes let you do quite a bit, like adjusting smart thermostat settings or checking video feeds straight from your phone. But that’s really just scratching the surface. Smart home automation permits different parts of your home to work off each other. 

These are several examples of what you could program:

• Disarm your alarm when someone opens the door with a PIN
• Unlock your door when a CO or smoke detector triggers
• Have doors lock automatically a certain amount of time after they are unlocked
• Program indoor cameras to record if a motion sensor triggers or door opens
• Arm and disarm your system at designated hours

Your possibilities are practically limitless. You might even configure a comprehensive end-of-day scene that adjust lights, activates your system, and fastens doors all at once. The top home security systems in Wausau make it simple with easy-to-navigate cell phone apps.

Creating home automation actions in your Wausau home

If you’re intimidated by technology and think you’re not able to manage configuring your home’s automation, you should reconsider. Mobile apps like the one Vivint offers enable you to make life easier with custom actions in only a couple of minutes. Vivint’s app also comes pre-programmed with many suggested automation actions you may simply turn on.  

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

1. Access the Vivint app on your smartphone.
2. Tap the menu icon in the top left of the display and select “Smart Actions.”
3. Tap the “+” sign to initiate a new rule.
4. Pick what you would like to happen. For instance, you may want to activate your system, start a surveillance recording, or switch on a light. You’ll find many choices.
5. Next, indicate what will trigger the action. For example, you could want a light to illuminate when a motion detector activates or a video camera to record when a smart lock is engaged. You may also have an action take place according to the hour.
6. Finally, you only have to verify what you’ve done, ensure you save it, and toggle it on to enable it.

If it seems difficult, it’s not. Thanks to the app's usability, you essentially just press what you want and toggle rules off or on. If you would like a camera to record when a door lock activates, you may choose which camera to initiate from a list. You'll also select the door if there are different options. The rule may be set to run 24/7 or only for specified times.

Find advanced smart home automation with a new Vivint security system

Take some of life’s daily tasks off your to-do list and let your new Vivint smart home handle them for you! By implementing smart home automation, you’ll enjoy a higher level of convenience while obtaining a better defense for your household. Start designing your smart home in Wausau today by calling (715) 662-6232 and connecting with a Vivint professional.