The irritation
In Arizona, getting into a parked car can mean waiting through an intensely hot cabin. I kept forgetting to start the climate system before leaving for calendar events.
ProductRetiredRetired
Calendar Climate Keeper
A retired Arizona-heat automation that used Google Calendar and the Tesla Fleet API to pre-cool the cabin before a scheduled departure.
- Current state
- Retired — Retired
- Jack’s role
- Concept, Calendar automation, Vehicle API integration
- Find it in the workshop
- Archive Yard · Calendar-linked car remote
Built because…
The real build story.
What I built
I connected Google Calendar to the Tesla Fleet API so an upcoming event could trigger cabin pre-conditioning before the scheduled departure.
The hard part
Calendar events change, vehicle actions need secure authorization, and an automation controlling a real object must avoid duplicate or badly timed commands.
Under the casing
Proof, not decoration.
Build evidence02 items
- Google Calendar events translated into scheduled cabin pre-cooling
- Tesla Fleet API vehicle control documented in the preserved public article
- Google Calendar API
- Tesla Fleet API
- Scheduled automation
- Event processing
Scope of work
What I owned.
- Concept
- Calendar automation
- Vehicle API integration
No victory-lap math
Outcome and lesson.
Where it landed
Calendar Climate Keeper is retired and remains in the archive as a specific Google Calendar-to-Tesla automation, not a generic weather dashboard.
What stayed
Personal automation is most valuable when it fits an existing habit. Connecting the calendar to the car removed a step I was predictably going to forget.
Field notes
This project has a physical address.
In the playable workshop, Calendar Climate Keeper lives in the Archive Yard as a calendar-linked car remote. You can inspect it without unlocking anything.