Automations

Automations let your car do certain things on its own based on where it is or what's happening. Today there are four rules — Auto Sentry, Cabin Overheat Protection, Auto Close Sunshade, and Scheduled Precondition — and we'll add more over time. Every automation is opt-in: nothing runs until you turn it on yourself.

Auto Sentry

Turns Sentry on automatically when your 7X is parked + locked + outside all your safe locations, and off again when you come back to one. You'll get a notification when Sentry arms (going somewhere new); we stay quiet on disarm because returning home is not news.

Setting Auto Sentry up

1. 1Open Automations from the home page menu (the wand icon), then tap Auto Sentry.
2. 2Flip the master toggle on.
3. 3Tap the Home slot — pan the map until the pin is on your house, adjust the recognition radius (default 300 m, slider from 100 to 500 m), tap Save. The radius is your safe zone — any park inside it counts as "home," any park outside it counts as "away."
4. 4Optional: do the same for Work, or add Favourites for other safe spots (your gym, your in-laws, weekend escape).

How Auto Sentry decides

1. 1Outside all your safe zones by more than 50 m, parked + locked → Sentry on.
2. 2Back inside any safe zone → Sentry off.
3. 3In the 50 m grey area between → keeps whatever Sentry was last set to (no flickering).
4. 4Manual override — if you turn Sentry off by hand after automation turned it on, automation pauses for 24 hours so it doesn't fight you. After that grace window, or when you next leave and come back, it resumes.

Where you'll see Auto Sentry

1. 1Automations hub — status pill on the Auto Sentry row: Off, Needs setup (master toggle on but no safe zones), or Active.
2. 2Security page — an AUTO badge next to Sentry Mode when automation has fired in the last 24 hours, plus a one-line note saying what it did and when, or how long manual override is paused for.
3. 3Widgets — a small red Sentry dot next to the battery percentage on the home-screen widgets whenever Sentry is on, however it got that way.

Cabin Overheat Protection

Turns the AC on automatically when your cabin gets too hot while you're parked. The Zeekr 7X has its own built-in overheat protection that we can read from the cloud, but there's no Zeekr UI anywhere to actually turn it on or off and there's no way to know when it kicks in. So we built our own — predictable, with a threshold you choose.

Setting Cabin Overheat Protection up

1. 1Open Automations from the home page menu (the wand icon), then tap Cabin Overheat Protection. (You can also reach it from the Climate page — same row, same destination.)
2. 2Flip the master toggle on.
3. 3Pick a threshold — 30 °C, 35 °C, or 40 °C. The car's interior sensor decides when the cabin actually hits that temperature, so consider these approximate.

How Cabin Overheat Protection decides

1. 1Car is parked, AC is off, and the interior temperature is at or above your chosen threshold → AC on for about 15 minutes (the car's HVAC controller stops it after that).
2. 2If the cabin gets hot again after that, we fire again. No cooldown between fires — the car's natural 15-minute cycle gives us hysteresis for free.
3. 3Manual override — if you turn AC off by hand, automation pauses for 1 hour so it doesn't fight you. Shorter than Auto Sentry's 24-hour grace because temperature situations move faster.

Where you'll see Cabin Overheat Protection

1. 1Automations hub — status pill on the Cabin Overheat Protection row: Off or ACTIVE.
2. 2Climate page — a row just below the mode buttons showing the same ACTIVE pill and the threshold you chose. Tap it to jump to the detail page.
3. 3Notification — you'll get a push when we fire ("AC turned on — Cabin Overheat Protection. Interior was 36 °C.") so you know it happened.
4. 4Everywhere AC state shows up — Home page Cool chip, widgets, Apple Watch — the AC indicator lights up the same way as if you'd turned it on yourself, because we're calling the same command.

Auto Close Sunshade

Closes the panoramic sunshade automatically when it's a hot day outside and the car is parked. Nice for keeping the cabin a little cooler without you having to remember. Lives only in the Automations tab — no shortcut from Climate or Controls.

Setting Auto Close Sunshade up

1. 1Open Automations from the home page menu (the wand icon), then tap Auto Close Sunshade.
2. 2Flip the master toggle on.
3. 3Pick a threshold — 30, 33, 35, or 38 °C. Lower thresholds fire more often. The reading is a "feels-like" temperature, so in humid weather it runs several degrees above the plain outdoor temp — a higher threshold like 35 or 38 avoids closing on days that aren't actually that hot.

How Auto Close Sunshade decides

1. 1Car is parked AND locked, sunshade is open, exterior "feels-like" temperature is at or above your chosen threshold, AND it's between 7 am and 6 pm local time → close the sunshade once.
2. 2Source for outside temp: when the car is parked the cloud doesn't report it, so we fall back to Open-Meteo's "feels-like" reading at your car's GPS. Feels-like factors in humidity and wind, so in tropical KL it reads a few degrees higher than the raw air temperature — which is closer to how it actually feels standing next to your car. Treat the threshold as approximate (±1–2 °C is normal).
3. 3Manual override — if you reopen the sunshade by hand, automation pauses for 1 hour so it doesn't fight you.
4. 4Doesn't fire at night — closing the sunshade only matters while there's sun.

Where you'll see Auto Close Sunshade

1. 1Automations hub — status pill on the Auto Close Sunshade row: Off or ACTIVE.
2. 2Notification — you'll get a push when we fire ("Sunshade closed — Auto Close Sunshade. Exterior was 32 °C.").
3. 33D car — the sunshade slides closed on the model the same way it does when you close it manually.

Scheduled Precondition

Gets the cabin cool before you get in, on a schedule you set per day. The Precondition row on the Set Schedules page is the car's own timer and can only hold one time for all the days you tick. Scheduled Precondition is ours: add as many schedules as you like, each with its own days and ready-by time — Monday 10:00 for the office, Tuesday 09:00 for the school run, Monday 22:00 for the evening drive. Lives only in the Automations tab.

Setting Scheduled Precondition up

1. 1Open Automations from the home page menu (the wand icon), then tap Scheduled Precondition, then Add schedule.
2. 2Pick the time you want to be ready by — that's when you plan to get in, not when the A/C should start. We work the start time out for you.
3. 3Tick the days it repeats on. One schedule can cover several days at the same time; add another schedule for a different time.
4. 4Optionally give it a label like Work or School run, then tap Create.
5. 5Each schedule has its own switch, so you can pause one without deleting it. Tap a schedule to edit or delete it.

How Scheduled Precondition decides

1. 115 minutes before your ready-by time we turn the A/C on and run it for 20 minutes, so the cabin is ready from 15 minutes before until 5 minutes after, in case you're running late.
2. 2Same command as the Cool button on the Climate page, so it works while the car is asleep, and it lights up everywhere A/C state shows.
3. 3If the car is already driving at that moment, we skip that occurrence and try again next week.
4. 4Schedules repeat weekly, in the time zone your phone was in when you saved them. If you travel, edit the schedule once you're there so it moves with you.
5. 5It runs from MyZeekr's servers, so the car needs a signal at that moment. If you park somewhere with no coverage, the Precondition row on Set Schedules is the safer choice for that day, since the car runs that timer itself.
6. 6Having both set for the same time is fine. The car's own timer starts about 15 minutes before departure, ours stacks on top, and the A/C simply runs until 5 minutes after your ready-by time.
7. 7A schedule is not a manual override for Cabin Overheat Protection — the two don't interfere.

Where you'll see Scheduled Precondition

1. 1Automations hub — status pill on the Scheduled Precondition row: Off (no schedule switched on) or ACTIVE.
2. 2Detail page — each schedule shows its next A/C start ("A/C starts tomorrow 07:45"), and the header shows the soonest one across all your schedules plus "Last started at" for 24 hours after a fire.
3. 3Notification — you'll get a push when it starts ("Cabin preconditioning started — Ready by 08:00 · A/C on for 20 min."), or "Preconditioning could not start" if the car didn't accept the command. Under the Automations category in Settings › Notifications.
4. 4Everywhere A/C state shows up — Home page Cool chip, widgets, Apple Watch — the A/C indicator lights up the same way as if you'd pressed Cool yourself.
5. 5Set Schedules page — a short link under the two rows takes you here when you need a different time on different days.

Sharing your car with another driver

If someone else controls this same car with their own MyZeekr (a partner with their own secondary Zeekr driver, whether on our hosted app or their own self-host server), each setup runs its automations on its own. The two don't share a brain, and neither one knows what the other has set up.

Manual controls are safe to use from both phones. They all go through Zeekr's cloud, which runs one command per car at a time, so the worst case is the car simply does whatever was tapped most recently.

Automations are the one thing to coordinate. Because each setup decides on its own, an automation running on one phone can quietly undo what the other person just did by hand. For example, if your partner has Auto Close Sunshade on and you open the sunshade on a hot day, their app will see it open and close it again, and it can look like the car is fighting you.

Our advice for a shared car: pick one person to own the automations and leave them off in everyone else's app. Manual controls can stay on for everyone.

More automations coming

We have a list — auto-charge-limit by location, auto-close charge port after charging — and we'd love to hear which you want next. Reply to any MyZeekr email and let us know.