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Apps on the car

LocalStore is the app store on the car's own screen.

Feature	What it does	For
Google Play apps	Installed through Aurora Store, with a one-tap fix when an app says it isn't compatible.	Everyone
Apps we host	Installed and updated by LocalStore. Every file is checked against its signed fingerprint first.	Everyone
Tested on the EX2	Each app is marked tested and working, testing next, or doesn't work yet, with a star rating.	Everyone
Automatic updates	LocalStore and our hosted apps update themselves, only while the car is in Park. You can switch it off.	Everyone
Send an app to the car	Pick an app in your account and it installs on the car, or waits for a tap on the screen.	Everyone
Restore my apps	Backups of your app list. If a head-unit update removes apps, one tap puts them back.	Everyone
Head-unit update alert	An email when Geely updates the car's software, so you know to check your apps.	Everyone
Ask for an app	From the car or the website. Requests decide what we test next.	Everyone
Remove anything	Every app LocalStore installs can be removed from the same screen, and so can LocalStore.	Everyone
Drive page	Your saved places on the car's screen: one tap starts navigation.	Everyone

Remote control

From the Control page in your account, on a computer or your phone. The car needs to be awake and on Wi-Fi or a hotspot: the EX2's screen unit has no mobile data of its own.

Feature	What it does	For
Lock and unlock	Only in Park. Unlocking asks for your password or an emailed code every time, emails every owner, and locks again after 2 minutes if no door opens.	Everyone
Find the car	The car sends a fresh GPS position, shown on a map with its age.	Everyone
Keep the car on	Keeps the whole car on for 1 to 12 hours, then it goes to sleep as normal.	Everyone
Camping mode	The car's own quiet stay-online mode, with the screen dimmed to a clock. About 5–6 % of the battery per 12 hours with the aircon off; the aircon keeps running if you leave it on, and then uses far more.	Everyone
Camera snapshots	A picture from each outside camera, on request from your account. Only the outside cameras, never inside the car.	Everyone
Snapshot timeline	Instead of one picture at a time: a still from the cameras you choose, as often as every second or as rarely as every ten minutes, sent to your account. It tells you how much data that will use before you switch it on.	Everyone Being tested
Charging current and schedule	Set the charging current, and a charging schedule for each day of the week.	Everyone
Charge limit	Set a charge limit from 50 to 100 % for each car. The EX2's software has no such setting yet, so for now the car answers "not available on this car" and tells you so. It starts working the day a head-unit update adds it.	Everyone Waiting on the car
Saved car settings	Drive mode, regen, comfort and driver-assistance choices saved in your account and put back once each time the car is put into Drive, before it moves. Anything you change on the car after that is left alone. Emergency braking is always left to the car.	Everyone
When you park	On the car (off unless you turn it on), every time or just for your next park: when you put the car in Park after driving, it starts camping mode by itself so the car stays on and online, and turns the screen off when you get out or lock.	Everyone

Dashcam

Our own dashcam app, installed from your account like any other app we host. It needs an EX2 with the 360° cameras, and a USB stick worth having: a slow stick is the one thing that spoils it.

Feature	What it does	For
Records while you drive	All four outside cameras at once, 1280×800 at 25 frames a second, in one-minute files with no gaps between them. A power cut loses a second or two, not the clip.	Everyone
Watches while parked	Lock the car and it keeps watching; unlock it and it goes back to recording the drive. It follows the car rather than the screen, so it carries on with the screen off.	Everyone
Speed and place on every clip	A subtitle file beside each clip with the time, speed, gear and GPS position once a second, so a clip tells you where you were and how fast. Switch it off if you would rather it did not.	Everyone
Looks after the USB stick	The oldest clips go first when the stick fills up. If the stick is unplugged, failing, or too slow to keep up, it records to the car's own storage instead and says which it is using, and moves those clips over to the stick later.	Everyone
Watch it on the car	The live four-camera view, and your clips with a four-up player, on the car's own screen.	Everyone
Switched from your account	Turn recording and parked watching on or off from the Control page, and see what it is doing now: recording or not, to the stick or to the car, and when it last saved a clip.	Everyone

Car status and alerts

What the car reports, on your dashboard and the car's own page.

Feature	What it does	For
Battery and charging	Battery %, range, charging or not and how fast, odometer.	Everyone
Doors, windows and locks	Locked or unlocked, which doors, boot, bonnet and windows are open, and whether the car is in use.	Everyone
Asleep or awake	When the car last checked in, and "Asleep since …" once it has gone to sleep.	Everyone
Dashboard	Every car as it is now, what needs your attention, and your week and month.	Everyone
Alerts	Left unlocked, door or window left open, battery low, charging finished or stopped early, car not heard from.	Everyone
Area and hours alerts	When a car leaves a saved place, or is driven outside the hours you set.	Everyone
NZ reminders	RUC, WOF, rego and service, by date or by kilometres.	Everyone
Charging history and cost	Every charge, where, how much energy and what it cost at your power rate. CSV download.	Everyone
Email or phone	Each alert by email, a notification on your phone, or both. All off until you switch them on.	Everyone
Phone app	Add your account to your phone's home screen. No app store needed.	Everyone
Activity history	Every remote request, who asked and what the car answered, kept for 90 days.	Everyone

Trips and IRD logbook

Trips are recorded only when location sharing is switched on.

Feature	What it does	For
Automatic trips	Every drive recorded: start, finish, distance and route.	Everyone
Business or private	Mark each trip with a reason, on the car's Drive page or in your account.	Everyone
Trip rules	Mark trips by themselves: by place, day, time or driver.	Everyone
Trip page	The route on a map, times, distance and battery used.	Everyone
Saved places	Home, work, customer sites. Trips are named after them.	Everyone
IRD logbook export	CSV or PDF for any dates and cars: odometer, km, purpose, driver, totals and business-use %.	Everyone
Monthly logbook by email	Last month's trips as a CSV in your inbox.	Everyone
Usage	Kilometres, hours and trips per car and per driver, and cars nobody has driven for two weeks. CSV download.	Everyone
Map	Every car that shares its location on one map.	Everyone

Fleets

A fleet is an account for a business, kept apart from your own cars.

Feature	What it does	For
Many cars, one account	Add each car with a code from its screen. Every car's status, version and location in one place.	Everyone
Members and roles	Add people by email as owner, admin, driver or viewer.	Everyone
Drivers and sign-in	Each driver gets a PIN and signs in on the car, so trips record who drove. Off, optional or required.	Fleets
Required apps	Apps installed on every car in the fleet.	Fleets
Lock the car's settings	Stop drivers removing apps, keep automatic updates on, and put a PIN on the Service page.	Fleets
Sharing rules	Location, trips, snapshots and car status: off, driver's choice, or required. The car tells the driver.	Fleets
Remote control rules	Switch remote unlock off for the fleet, or let drivers lock cars from the website.	Fleets
Settings per driver	Each driver's own saved car settings, put on when they sign in.	Fleets Being tested
Remote support	When you ask from the car, or say yes on its screen, our staff can connect to help. Every session is logged and shown on the car.	Everyone
Diagnostic logs	LocalStore's own log, sent hourly, so we can find and fix problems. Kept 30 days.	Everyone

API access

For your own spreadsheet, script, reporting or ERP system.

Feature	What it does	For
Account API keys	Owners create up to 5 keys in the account. Each one can be revoked at once.	Everyone
Read only	The API reads your data. It can't change your account or reach a car.	Everyone
Cars	Every car with its last position and its latest battery, range, odometer, charging and lock status.	Everyone
Trips	Trips for any dates: times, km, start and end place, business or private, reason and driver.	Everyone
Status history	One car's battery, range, odometer and charging over time, kept 180 days.	Everyone
CSV downloads	Logbook, IRD logbook, charging and usage, from the account pages.	Everyone

Privacy and your switches

The switches are on the car, in LocalStore's Service page. In a fleet, the fleet's rules can set them.

Feature	What it does	For
Share location	Off until you turn it on. Needed for trips, the map and "find the car".	Everyone
Allow camera snapshots	Off until you turn it on. Only the outside cameras, never inside the car.	Everyone
Share car status	On unless you turn it off. Feeds the dashboard, alerts, charging and logbook odometer.	Everyone
Send diagnostic logs	On unless you turn it off. Read only by our staff, deleted after 30 days.	Everyone
Your own notifications	Each person chooses their own. Nobody is signed up by someone else.	Everyone

Coming

Not built yet. We'll list them above once they work on our own car.

Feature	What it will do	Status
Live camera view	Watch the car's cameras live from your phone.	Coming
Sentry clips online	Sentry pictures and clips sent to your account, not just kept on the USB stick.	Coming
Unlock signed by your phone	Unlock commands that only your own phone can create, so our servers can pass them on but never make one.	Coming