Smart Automations
Smart Automations reads your Tesla tariff data and builds a set of automations matched to your rate schedule. Instead of manually configuring time windows, rates, and seasons, Smart Automations does the work for you.
Why use Smart Automations?
Section titled “Why use Smart Automations?”Setting up automations by hand means looking up your utility’s rate periods, figuring out which hours are expensive, and entering everything manually. Smart Automations skips that:
- Detects your energy plan directly from your Tesla account
- Identifies every on-peak and high-rate period across all seasons
- Proposes automations with the correct time windows, days, and months already filled in
- Lets you review and rename everything before anything is created
If your utility has multiple seasons with different peak hours (SRP E-26, APS Saver Choice, etc.), Smart Automations creates a separate automation for each one.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”-
Click Smart Automations on the Automations page
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Grid Getter analyzes your energy plan — it reads your rate schedule from your Tesla account and identifies all time-of-use periods
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Review the proposals — each proposed automation shows the name, time window, rate, days, and months. Names are editable if the auto-generated ones don’t match your preference
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Configure automation types (DemandGuard subscribers) — choose between Peak and DemandGuard for each period. DemandGuard automations require a target demand (kW) and demand interval
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Confirm and create — review the final list and click Create. All automations are created at once and appear in your list immediately
What if my tariff isn’t detected?
Section titled “What if my tariff isn’t detected?”If Grid Getter can’t read your tariff from Tesla, you’ll see an Energy Plan Not Detected screen with two options:
- Set Up Energy Plan — takes you to the energy plan setup page where you can select a preset plan (SRP, APS) or build a custom tariff. Once saved, Smart Automations can use it on your next attempt.
- Create Manually — closes the wizard so you can create automations by hand using the normal Add Automation flow.
Editing names
Section titled “Editing names”Smart Automations generates names like “Summer On Peak” or “Season3 On Peak” based on the tariff data. These names are editable in the proposal review step — click on any name to change it before the automations are created.
Free plan preview
Section titled “Free plan preview”Free plan users can run Smart Automations and see every automation that would be created. The proposals, time windows, rates, and schedules are all visible. To actually create the automations, a paid subscription is required.
This lets you see exactly what you’d get before subscribing.
Plan requirements
Section titled “Plan requirements”| Action | Free plan | Premium | DemandGuard |
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| Preview proposals | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create Peak automations | Requires subscription | Yes | Yes |
| Create DemandGuard automations | Requires subscription | Upgrade required | Yes |
- Run Smart Automations after setting up your energy plan for the best results. If your tariff is already saved from a preset or custom configuration, Smart Automations will pick it up immediately.
- You can run it more than once. If you change your energy plan or want a fresh set of automations, delete the old ones and run Smart Automations again.
- Rename before creating. Season names from Tesla (like “Season3”) aren’t always intuitive. Rename them to something meaningful while you’re in the review step.