r/VivintSmartHome
Founded December 2018 · Public — anyone can post
A place for people with Vivint Home Security Systems to discuss the system. Just discussion, no sales or soliciting permitted. You can mention current or past experiences with the company or employees; however, any posting of personal or confidential information or harassment of other users in comments or posts will not be permitted. There are people here that can assist in resolving issues you may have, but let's keep things civil.
Members
8,507
8.5K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
1.4
from the last 100 posts, spanning 71.0 days
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.3%
+113 members · ≈34d
Published rules
5
2 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Oct 12
sampled Oct 13
Distinct posters
79%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 9 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/VivintSmartHome
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Rant | 46% | 28 |
| How-to | 18% | 3 |
| Question | 14% | 14 |
| Lessons / story | 11% | 35 |
| Discussion | 7% | 3 |
| Tool comparison | 2% | 1 |
| Promo | 2% | 0 |
Based on 56 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 7
- Top 10% score
- 54
- Text posts
- 80%
- Got no replies
- 5%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 02:00 UTC, Mon 04:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned.
- No soliciting: Your post or comment cannot be an attempt to solicit information or business.
- No Spam or repetitive posts: Duplicate, repetitive, or other spam posts will be removed. Use the search function before posting to see if your topic has already been covered.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Provides specific, actionable advice (e.g., contact AG, BBB, credit card company).
- — Shares personal, detailed negative experiences with Vivint.
- — Compares Vivint to other security systems based on first-hand experience.
- — Offers alternative solutions or tools.
- — Discloses affiliation (e.g., former employee, tech for Vivint) to add credibility.
What r/VivintSmartHome's rules say about promotion
2 of 5 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No soliciting
rule 2 of 5
Your post or comment cannot be an attempt to solicit information or business.
No Spam or repetitive posts
rule 5 of 5
Duplicate, repetitive, or other spam posts will be removed. Use the search function before posting to see if your topic has already been covered.
Removal reason shown to posters: Spam
The other 3
- Posts or accounts by unverified users claiming to be current or former employees are not permitted.
- Do not share personal or account information.
- Be nice to others
Read from r/VivintSmartHome’s published rules on Sep 9. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/VivintSmartHome — frequently asked
How many members does r/VivintSmartHome have?
r/VivintSmartHome has 8,507 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 13. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/VivintSmartHome growing?
Over the last ≈34 days r/VivintSmartHome changed by +1.3% — a gain of 113 members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/VivintSmartHome?
Around 1.4 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 71.0 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/VivintSmartHome created?
r/VivintSmartHome was founded in December 2018 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/VivintSmartHome?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 79% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 12. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/VivintSmartHome?
r/VivintSmartHome publishes 5 rules and 2 of them address promotion. The first, “No soliciting”, says: Your post or comment cannot be an attempt to solicit information or business. Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/VivintSmartHome for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/VivintSmartHome into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/VivintSmartHome's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/VivintSmartHome's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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