It needs the phone for the initial setup, but then it works fine without the phone. I often leave my phone home and can unlock the car just with the watch.
I don't think you can pair the watch directly to the car.
I don't think it is dependent on the phone app. My watch has cellular service and the it can control the car without the phone. But I don't think it speaks Bluetooth, it uses the cloud to control it.
I have the Air. The app is not as good as Tesla's (which could unlock and authorize the car without the phone), but I use it quite often to turn on the AC, and occasionally I even drive the car without a phone or a fob.
On the second screen you should see buttons to lock/unlock the car, open frunk/trunk/charging, etc. On the third it allows me to select vehicle, but I have only one, so it's useless for me.
After the update, I get different battery health number than before that:
# date time VIN battery-health(%) odometer(mi) battery-capacity(kWh)
2025-08-05 08:30:03 50EA1TEA8SABCDEFG 98.20 3135.69 92.03
2025-08-06 10:34:49 50EA1TEA8SABCDEFG 99.00 3135.69 92.02
Did you see what Josh said? "and not the Lucid person that is here on this forum who promised me personally they would get back to me (but never did) with an answer to how Lucid would be addressing this."
Again, this kind of fanboyism is not helping Lucid.
It seems that some people think that access to supercomputers is the bottleneck for making good autonomous driving software. Let me just remind them that people that know how to do that are not that many and are worth few hundred millions a pop.
Lucid doesn't have the team to do anything in...
Is there a way to disable the automatic update? Every time LucidLogger updates, it stops polling the vehicle and I have to restart my Pi for it to resume.
I am sure the Home Assistant and LucidLogger can do this, but since I am too lazy to figure out how, I hacked a small script to retrieve only the battery capacity data. I run it once a day on my Raspberry Pi with the idea of making nice graphs once I collect some more data.
It script is based...