This Halloween, get into the spooky spirit with Alarm.com smart home technology that saves time and provides peace of mind, allowing you to focus on what really matters—enjoying all that delicious candy! Here are some fun and functional Halloween hacks to enhance your smart home setup.
Ghoul Up Your Garden with Outdoor Smart Plugs
Make your outdoor Halloween setup as seamless as possible with outdoor smart plugs. Control your Halloween lights, animatronics and inflatables directly from the Alarm.com app. No need to creep out into chilly autumn nights to unplug your decorations before bed—simply turn them off with the push of a button. For further convenience, let your system shut things down for you with automated Scenes.
Boo-st Your Daily Dose of Spooky with Scenes
With Alarm.com Scenes, you can automate multiple smart devices simultaneously to craft the perfect ambiance. Imagine a ‘Halloween Scene’ that dims your overhead lights, turns on eerie purple lighting and closes your shades. For an extra haunting touch, integrate Sonos audio to play spine-chilling tunes when the Scene is activated.
Bonus Tip: Take advantage of new Z-Wave Remotes from Zooz when activating Scenes. These remotes can be mounted on a wall or carried around, allowing you to trigger any Scene with the press of a button—no need to open your Alarm.com app or go to your panel.
Put Your Video Doorbell on Pause During the Witching Hour
This Halloween, treat yourself with this trick from Alarm.com: Pause Video Analytics Recording Rules. During trick-or-treating hours, you might get a skele-TON of doorbell notifications and saved clips taking up your storage space. Pause Video Analytics Recording Rules takes care of this for you so you can focus on the fun without notification overload.
Light Up Your Fright Night with the Camera Floodlight
As the goblins and ghouls head to bed, it’s time to shield your home from any lingering late-night mischief. The Alarm.com Floodlight Camera is your Halloween hero, standing guard against things that go bump in the night. Set schedules to ensure your floodlight takes the graveyard shift during peak trick-or-treating hours, then resumes deterrence once the sugar rush is over. With six light settings, high-quality video and two-way audio, the Camera Floodlight will have your home as protected as a witch’s spell book.
Skip the Tricks with the Alarm.com Treat-O-Meter
This new spooktacular tool predicts peak trick-or-treating times based on your zip code, so you won’t have to guess when to fill the candy bowl, open the second bag of treats, or blow out the jack-o-lantern for the night!