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March 01, 2022

Tips To Control Your Kingsport Home Security With Your Cell Phone

In today’s world, a home security system has more features than keypads and alarms. Your property’s protection can incorporate smart locks, flood sensors, and a wide array of home automation components. To manage it all you can use your touchscreen hub when you are at your property. If you’re away, you have the ability to control your Kingsport home security with a phone.

Thankfully, the ADT Control® home security app makes managing your system a breeze.

Getting Started With ADT Control

To start controlling your Kingsport home security system with your cell phone is by getting the ADT Control app for your mobile device. At installation, your rep can guide you through the initial set-up. When you’ve decided on your log-in credentials, you are able to use it with additional smartphones and other mobile devices. When wanting to engage your your alarms, touch the icon in the shape of a shield. You are able to access all components from your phone, including smart lights and locks, surveillance systems, and sensors.

Access Your System From Wherever You Are

A home security app on your smartphone makes it easy to command devices throughout your home with an easy tap of your finger. Did you remember to lock the door on the way out? All you have to do is go to your ADT mobile app. You have the ability to activate your overall home security, check camera footage, turn lights on or off, turn up your HVAC, by hitting the correct icon within the app. Then receive immediate updates on your mobile device in the event any of your security devices sense trouble.

Get A Better View

When you control your Kingsport home security system with your phone, you can get a real-time view of your residence and surroundings when cameras are operating. Peruse live footage from all your security cameras straight from your cell phone, and keep shorter segments or still images, and playback longer recordings as desired. Then when people show up – the mail person, a delivery driver, or a family member -- just use the two-way talk capability to talk with them.

Get the Most Out of Your System With Schedules And Geofencing

By using the primary menu, you can explore several high-tech settings. Set schedules for your lights, heat, sensors, and anything else you like by designing a customized scene. By using this feature, you are able to program how your components communicate with one another, and when you want them to turn on or off. Set a nighttime scene that switches off all the downstairs smart lights, activates the porch light, lowers the comfort levels, and arms your overall security alarm. Then customize a wake-up scene that makes the opposite adjustments when it’s time to get your household going.

If you want even more control, you might allow geo-services from the main hub or the app. Now, you can have your residence secure itself by operating locks, turning off the smart lights, and arming your security alarm when you leave the driveway. When you arrive after your long day on the job, your home will spring to action by automatically raising the garage door and turning off the alarms.

Reap The Benefits Of ADT Control In Kingsport By Speaking With Our Security Experts

Finally, you can go away with certainty as you know your home is [[safer|more secure|better protected] than it’s ever been. All you have to do is reach out to (423) 241-8746 or fill in the form below and a one of our security specialists will guide you toward the perfect home security system for you -- complemented by the amazing functionality of ADT Control.