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March 01, 2022

Tips To Control Your Boulder Home Security From Your Cell Phone

These days, a home security system is more than alarms and sensors. Your property’s protection may now involve CO detectors, smart lighting, and a wide array of home automation components. To manage everything you can make use of your central command touchscreen when you are on site. If you’re away, you have the ability to control your Boulder home security with a phone.

Thankfully, ADT’s mobile security application makes interacting with your devices easy to do.

How To Get Started With ADT Control

To start controlling your Boulder home security system using your cell phone is by downloading ADT Control for your Apple or Android device. At installation, your rep should walk you through the basic configuration. Once you’ve created your username and password details, you are able to use it with other devices. When wanting to engage your system, press the shield icon. You can also access every device from this convenient interface, including window and door sensors, smart locking and lights, and video cameras.

Control Your Devices From Wherever You Are

A home security app on your smartphone gives you the ability to command integrated equipment within your residence with an easy tap of your finger. Did you remember to engage the front door lock when you left? Just open ADT Control. You can arm your system, check camera footage, alter light levels, turn up the thermostat, by touching the right icon in your app. You can even get immediate updates on your cell phone when any of your components detect an issue.

Improve Your View

By controlling your Boulder home security system with your phone, you can enjoy a real-time glimpse into your residence and surroundings if your surveillance is operating. Explore live video from your surveillance system straight from your phone, and keep short clips or an image, and watch more extensive recordings as you wish. Then when guests show up – the postal worker, an Amazon or Grubhub driver, or a family member -- take advantage of the 2-way audio functionality to talk with them.

Increase Functionality With Schedules And Geofencing

When you go to the main menu, you will enjoy access to some modern features. Use scheduling your lights, heat, sensors, and anything else you like through the use of your own unique scene. Here, you may specify how your components communicate with each other, and when you would like them to turn on or off. Set a nighttime scene that turns off the common-area smart bulbs, activates the outside entrance light, reduces the temperature, and engages your alarm system. You can also generate a start-your-day scene that makes the opposite adjustments when the time comes to get your household going.

If you’re looking for to go even more high-tech, you can turn on geo-services from the main hub or the app. By doing so, you can have your property
“shut-down” by activating locks, switching off the lighting, and turning on your alarms when you depart for work. Upon your return after a long day’s work, your house will come alive by automatically opening the garage and disengaging your security system.

Reap The Benefits Of ADT Control In Boulder With One Simple Phone Call

Now you’re able to go away with peace of mind as you know your house is [[safer|more secure|better protected] than it has ever been before. Just call (303) 479-3788 or submit the following form and a skilled security professional will assist you in designing the perfect home security system for you -- bolstered by the incredible ADT Control app.