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March 01, 2022

Ways To Control Your Auburn Home Security With Your Smartphone

In today’s world, a home security system goes beyond door sensors and security cameras. Your home defense can incorporate CO detectors, smart lighting, and a range of home automation devices. To control everything you are able to make use of your touchscreen hub when you are home. When you’re not on location, you have the ability to control your Auburn home security with a phone.

Luckily, the responsive ADT cell phone app makes remote access and scheduling easy to do.

How To Get Started With ADT Control

To start controlling your Auburn home security system using your cell phone is by downloading the ADT Control app for your Android or Apple phone. After it’s installed, your rep can guide you through the proper settings. After you’ve established your log-in details, you can use it with various smartphones and other mobile devices. If you want to activate your home’s security, press the icon in the shape of a shield. You can also access every device from the app, including window and door sensors, smart locking and lights, and video cameras.

Access Your System From Wherever You Are

A home security app on your mobile device allows you to command integrated equipment throughout your home with a simple finger swipe. Did you fail to lock the door on the way out? Just go to the ADT Control App. You are able to arm your system, check camera footage, turn lights on or off, increase or decrease the thermostat, by using the correct icon in your app. You can even get automatic notifications on your mobile device if any of your components are triggered.

Get A Better View

If you control your Auburn home security system with your phone, you have a live view of your property when cameras are turned on. Explore live footage from any connected camera directly from your phone, and keep short video snapshots or still images, and playback lengthier recordings as you wish. Then when guests show up – the mail carrier, an Amazon or Grubhub driver, or a relative -- simply utilize the two-way talk feature to give them instructions.

Get the Most Out of Your System With Scheduling And Geofencing

Through the central menu, you will enjoy access to several modern settings. Schedule your comfort levels, sensors, smart lighting, and anything else you like through the use of your own unique scene. By using this feature, you may specify how your security elements operate together, and when you want them to activate or shut down. Make a bedtime scene that switches off all the main living area smart lighting, turns on the exterior entry light, turns down the temperature, and engages your alarms. Then set a wake-up scene that makes the opposite adjustments when you need to rise and shine.

If you would like to get more technical, you could turn on geo-services from your security app or touchscreen hub. Now, you can have your property
“shut-down” by activating locks, turning off the lighting, and turning on your security system when you depart for work. Upon your return following a long day’s work, your house will spring to action by automatically putting up the garage door and disarming your security system.

Take Advantage Of ADT Control In Auburn With One Simple Phone Call

Now you’re able to go away with confidence as you know your house is [[safer|more secure|better protected] than it has ever been before. Just call (334) 219-8276 or submit the form on this page and a one of our security specialists will guide you toward the right home security system for your unique needs -- complete with ADT Control.