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Remote Climate aka remote start for 2017 Range Rover on Apple Watch

Finally a Range Rover with official remote start (Remote Climate)!!

Yes, it’s very cool (just flakey).

This works very intermittently from the Remote app on the iPhone and even less so from the Watch. The first time it worked for the Watch was when I was writing this – that’s why the times in the picture below don’t match. When it doesn’t work on the Watch, the status graphic just spins until there’s eventually an error notification displayed on the iPhone, not the Watch.

One other bit of info – the Watch app does work more consistently when trying to lock or unlock the vehicle remotely and further still, if the vehicle is unlocked and I try a Remote Climate start, the doors do lock but the engine itself has only started one time as of this post.

This is all being done with an iPhone 7 running iOS 10.2 and an Apple Watch Series 2 running watchOS 3.1.1. (as of 12/29/2016)

Here’s what it looks like and if you care to read my comments, keep reading below the image:

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Minutia comments:

* As seen above, the app is in metric for some reason – inconsistent throughout ICTP for me. As far as I can see all settings in vehicle and on their website are good:

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* Why are they creating their own UI elements? Just stick with what Apple provides and embrace the Watch. The digital crown can be used to scroll the main screen but then doesn’t do anything on the subsequent screen – seems like a great way to change the target temp, no?

* Then there’s the PIN screen… – no visual feedback on the numbers themselves, just that little pie chart that appears in the lower right of the screen as you press the numbers, not knowing if you pressed the right one. Red screen below is what flashes if PIN is incorrect. For comparison, the other screen below is the Apple PIN entry screen – bigger buttons that visually flash when pressed and entry status shown at top of screen, where fingers don’t cover. That pie chart being in the lower right means my finger covers it as I type in the numbers. So no visual feedback on the actual number pressed and an obstructed view of the pie chart…

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And one last image for completeness:

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Intelligent Seat Fold or just Remote Seat Fold?

One of Land Rover’s best-known customers completes unique remote test of New Discovery
World-renowned British adventurer Bear Grylls experiences Land Rover’s world-first seat folding technology
Intelligent Seat Fold system allows owners to reconfigure their vehicle seating remotely with a smartphone from anywhere in the world – even in mid-air
Unique test sees Bear change the seating layout during a 125mph skydiving descent
Seven full-size seats accommodate all seven skydivers in comfort
New Discovery world premiere: 28 September 2016 ahead of Paris Motor Show

LAND ROVER PUTS WORLD-FIRST INTELLIGENT SEAT FOLD TECHNOLOGY TO EXTREME TEST… REMOTELY

World-renowned British adventurer and well-known Land Rover owner Bear Grylls took to the skies to put the New Discovery’s Intelligent Seat Fold technology to the ultimate test. The system allows Discovery owners to configure their vehicle seating through the InControl Remote app on their smartphone from anywhere in the world – even in mid-air.

Having jumped from a plane with six members of the Royal Navy Parachute Display Team and freefalling at 125mph, Bear was able to change the vehicle’s seating layout at the touch of a button on his smartphone before he had to deploy his parachute.

Once on the ground all the skydivers were able to jump into a camouflaged prototype of the New Discovery, which comfortably seats seven full-sized adults.

The world-first Intelligent Seat Fold technology allows the two rear rows of seats to be fully reconfigured in as as little as 14 seconds via the InControl Remote app downloaded on any iOS or Android operating system.

(*Note full wifi and "Carrier" cell service at 10,000ft.)