Schedule - Battery Temp & Steering Wheel (Heating)

[PoRKroLLs]

Hi,

Is there anything that allows us to schedule/control the battery temp maintenance and steering wheel heating?

[YossiKon]

Hi @PoRKroLLs, thanks for asking — and sorry for the wait. I went through the whole reverse-engineered API surface to give you a precise answer rather than a guess. Here is exactly where each of the two features stands.

Steering wheel heating — close, but the command was never captured

The integration already knows this feature exists:

• The car's own capability catalog advertises it (a steel_wheel_heating flag inside the combined_climate_control entry, which the integration parses).
• A read-only status field name is known: steerWhlHeatingSts, expected in the same climateStatus block as the seat-heat fields.

What's missing is the write command. My own EX5 trim doesn't have the steering-wheel-heat button, so the command never appeared in any traffic capture, and none of the known climate command parameters (rce.conditioner, rce.temp, rce.level, rce.heat, rce.ventilation, or the rapid-climate body) contains a steering-wheel key. I won't ship a command I can't verify — an unverified guess could land on the wrong actuator.

You can help get this built. If your car has the feature:

1. Enable the "Full exposure" option in the integration's settings. If your car reports steerWhlHeatingSts, you'll get a diagnostic sensor for it automatically — please check whether it flips when you toggle steering-wheel heat in the Geely app. That confirms the read side on your trim.
2. If you're comfortable with it, a capture of the app's request when you press that button (mitmproxy on an Android emulator is the usual route) would give us the command directly. With one working payload in hand, wiring the switch is a small, mechanical change — the per-seat heating selects are the exact template.

Battery temperature maintenance — needs discovery from scratch

Here I have to be straightforward: nothing in the captured API surface references traction-battery thermal management — no status field, no command, no capability flag. Before anything can be built I'd need to know:

• Does your phone app actually offer battery temp maintenance / preconditioning as a remote feature (some cars manage battery thermals entirely on-board, with no app control)?
• If it does — which screen, and ideally a capture of what it sends.

If you can confirm the app has it, please share a screenshot in this issue and we'll take it from there.

Scheduling — what works today

The Geely cloud itself only supports native (in-car) scheduling for charging (already exposed as the Scheduled Charging switch + start/end time entities). Climate and seat commands are one-shot. So the working way to schedule any comfort feature today is a Home Assistant automation — the repo ships a ready example that pre-heats the cabin on weekday mornings (automations/comfort-and-maintenance.yaml), and the same pattern would drive steering-wheel heat the day the command exists.

I'm keeping this issue open and tagging it as a feature request for the steering-wheel-heat switch — the read side can land as soon as someone with the right trim confirms steerWhlHeatingSts behaves, and the write side as soon as we see one real payload.

Thanks again for the nudge — this is exactly the kind of report that maps out where the integration should grow next.