Automations (Android)

The Automations screen lists all your active automations. Open it from the drawer (☰ → Automations) or from the Today’s Automations card on the Live Dashboard.

Automations need a connected Tesla site — if your account doesn’t have one yet, opening Automations takes you to the dashboard’s connect-Tesla screen instead.

Automation types

Grid Getter supports five automation types, and all five are available in the Android app.

Custom Schedule

Runs a battery reserve or energy mode change at a specific time on selected days of the week. Use this to pre-position your battery before peak hours or to take advantage of off-peak rates. It can also toggle Storm Watch and — on a Scheduled or Adaptive plan — disable or enable grid charging for the moment it fires.

See the Custom Schedule web docs for the full settings reference.

Peak Time

Automatically adjusts your battery reserve during utility peak rate windows. Configure your utility’s on-peak hours and the app handles the rest.

DemandGuard

Monitors your grid draw during a demand period and discharges your battery to keep you below a target demand threshold. Grid charging is also paused during the demand window so Tesla can’t quietly pull from the grid mid-period. Requires an Adaptive subscription.

Battery Threshold

Watches your battery level and charges from the grid when it drops below a percentage you set. Runs during the time windows you configure — great for pre-charging before peak hours or maintaining a minimum overnight reserve. The free plan includes one rule with basic settings; Scheduled and Adaptive include unlimited rules and every setting.

Battery Threshold rules live on the Background Rules screen — tap the Background Rules card on the Automations screen. It’s the home for the automations Grid Getter runs on its own, with no schedule for you to set. The screen was previously called Battery Protection.

See the web docs automations section for full configuration details — the settings and options are identical between the app and the web.

If your site has no resting mode set yet, a card above the list asks which mode you normally run. Save it once and the card goes away.

Pre-Peak Charge

Forecasts your solar each afternoon and charges from the grid only when the battery won’t reach your target by peak on its own. It needs an active Peak Time or DemandGuard automation, since it fills the battery before that window opens. Requires an Adaptive subscription; Scheduled doesn’t include it.

Pre-Peak Charge lives on the Background Rules screen, next to Battery Threshold. Its card is titled Pre-Peak Charge with the subtitle Solar forecast · grid top-up, and a pill shows its status:

Status	What it means
Available	Included with your plan but not set up yet. Tap Turn on Pre-Peak Charge.
Locked	Your plan doesn’t include it. Tap Upgrade to add Pre-Peak Charge.
On	Solar looks sufficient so far today. The card shows when it last checked.
Charge planned	Today’s forecast falls short, so a grid top-up is scheduled. The card shows when it starts.
Charging	A top-up is running. The card shows when it stops.
Skipped today	You skipped today’s top-up. It evaluates again tomorrow.
Unavailable	This site guards all 24 hours. Your DemandGuard runs every hour of the day, so there’s no pre-peak runway to charge into.

Once it’s set up, the card has an on/off switch and an Edit button. While a charge is planned or running, View today’s forecast opens the Pre-Peak Charge card on the Live Dashboard.

The editor has three settings:

Active: turns the rule on or off
Target battery charge: how full you want the battery when peak starts. The slider steps through 50% to 80% in 5% steps, then 100%. Grid Getter grid-charges only if solar won’t reach this level before your peak window starts.
Use weather forecast: factors in forecast cloud cover when predicting solar production

There’s no schedule to set. Pre-Peak Charge runs before your peak window, and that timing comes from your rate plan.

Until you set it up, a banner on the Automations screen points you to it: Pre-Peak Charge is on your Background Rules page on Adaptive, or Pre-Peak Charge comes with Adaptive on other plans. Tap ✕ to dismiss it.

See Pre-Peak Charge (web) for how the forecast decides when to charge.

Creating an automation

Tap the + button or Create automation on the Automations screen to start.

Enabling and disabling

Each automation card has a toggle switch. Tap it to enable or disable the automation without deleting it.

Pausing all your automations

You can pause every automation at once from the web app, for today or until a date. The app doesn’t have this control yet, and it doesn’t show the pause. During one, the app can still show a next run that won’t fire, and starting a rule from the app does nothing until you tap Resume on the web.

When your plan ends

If your paid plan ends, or you move from Adaptive to Scheduled, DemandGuard, Peak Time and Pre-Peak Charge rules the new plan doesn’t include finish the window they’re in, then turn off. While a rule is finishing, its card shows an Ends badge with the time it turns off (for example Ends 12:00 AM, or Ends Sun 12:00 AM when that’s another day), and a note saying it keeps running until then. Afterward the card reads Turned off when your plan ended. The rule keeps its settings; switch it back on once you’re on a plan that includes it. See When your plan ends.

Editing and deleting

Tap an automation card to open its detail view. From there you can edit settings or delete the automation.

DemandGuard automation settings

DemandGuard has additional settings accessible from the Live Dashboard (DemandGuard → Configure) or from Settings → DemandGuard Configuration (if you have an Adaptive subscription).

Settings include:

Target demand threshold (kW)
Demand period (the time window DemandGuard monitors)
Hold strategy — how DemandGuard keeps your home on grid power during a demand event. New automations always use Battery hold, which stops the battery discharging while your home runs on grid power. Solar can still charge it; the grid can’t. Existing automations on Mode switch (classic), which toggles Tesla’s operation mode instead, keep it until you change them: the choice appears only when you edit one, and once you save it as Battery hold it no longer appears. With Mode switch, Tesla decides what the battery does during peak. It often runs your home from the battery and sends solar to the grid, so a battery you filled before peak can drain. Battery hold works by switching your Powerwall into Backup mode, which holds your battery at any charge level, including 81–99%, where Tesla’s own reserve controls can’t hold directly. DemandGuard also picks how it holds you based on how much solar you’re producing, so the hold costs you the least battery possible. See Hold strategies (web) and How the hold adapts to solar.
Demand Floor — optionally lowers your battery reserve to a floor percentage during the window so DemandGuard has more room to shave, then restores it when the window closes. The floor is as low as the battery goes during the window, so a floor of 25% or higher shows a warning with how much of the battery DemandGuard has left to use. See Demand Floor (web).
Weather Guard — skips the Demand Floor drop when Storm Watch is active, a severe weather alert covers your site, or weather data is missing
Queries per minute (how often DemandGuard checks grid draw during a period)
Respect Tesla’s Storm Watch — pause DemandGuard when Tesla Storm Watch is active and leave grid charging unrestricted so Storm Watch can pre-charge for emergencies (off by default for new automations)
Grid charging paused during the demand window — automatic, no setting required