Getting Started With the Aurus Remote Control Manual
The Aurus Sekiran and Senat come with a companion app that handles keyless entry, engine start, climate control, and location tracking. Most people pick up the basics quickly, but there are enough quibbles in the firmware that a proper walkthrough saves headaches. I spent time with three different build versions of the app and two hardware iterations of the car, so here is what actually works. The manual itself is mostly a reference for button mappings and safety warnings. The app does the heavy lifting. You get remote door locks, trunk release, horn and lights activation for finding the car in a parking garage, preconditioning the cabin temperature, and real-time GPS coordinates. There is also a service interval tracker and a fuel level monitor that pulls from the CAN bus data. Pairing the phone to the vehicle uses a Bluetooth LE handshake followed by an NFC tap against the center console card reader. That NFC step trips people up because the phone has to be in the exact sweet spot on the glass console. Lift the armrest, place the phone flat near the embossed Aurus logo, and hold it there for three seconds. If it flashes amber, you are too far forward. It flashes green and buzzes once when it locks in.
Step-by-Step Pairing and First Use
Download the official app from the Aurus portal. Do not use a third-party APK or an alternate marketplace. The unsigned builds skip the secure element pairing handshake and will not pair to Gen 2+ vehicle VINs. After installing, create an account with your phone number and verify it. The verification code arrives within ten seconds usually, sometimes up to a minute if the Russian telecom gateway is having one of its days. Log into the app, select your vehicle model, and enter the VIN from your registration documents. The app will query the backend for authorization. This can take between fifteen seconds and two minutes depending on server load. Once the vehicle appears, initiate the Bluetooth pairing from the car's touchscreen first, then confirm on the phone. The NFC tap follows immediately after. I ran into a specific issue on a 2023 Senat with firmware build 4.2.1 that would not complete pairing past the NFC step. The phone showed "pairing successful" but the car never accepted the device. The workaround was to do a hard reset of the head unit by holding the volume knob and the back button for twelve seconds until the screen went black and rebooted. After that, pairing completed in under twenty seconds. This seems to affect roughly one in every ten vehicles on that firmware revision.
Common Settings and How to Use Them
Inside the app, there are several settings that are not obvious. The geofence feature lets you set a virtual boundary around your home or office. If the car moves outside that zone while unlocked, you get an alert. This is useful but generates false positives if you have a large driveway or live in a area with spotty cellular coverage. The GPS coordinates drift by about fifty meters indoors, so set the geofence radius at least ten meters larger than you think you need. The climate preconditioning schedule is where most people save time. Instead of manually heating or cooling the cabin before every drive, set a recurring schedule in the app. Winter mornings at six forty-five at minus fifteen degrees Celsius will have the cabin at twenty degrees by the time you walk outside. The app uses the vehicle's battery and a small auxiliary heater, so range impact on electric variants is negligible for ten-minute preconditions. Child lock status shows in the app but cannot be toggled remotely. That is a hardware switch on the door panel and stays that way. The manual mentions this, but it is easy to miss if you skim straight through. Also note that remote engine start has a fifteen-minute timeout by design. The ECU cuts the engine after that period to prevent flooding and excessive idling. You can extend it once through the app before it times out again.
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Known Limitations and Workarounds
The app depends on both Bluetooth and cellular. If the car is in a deep underground parking structure with no cellular signal, remote commands will queue locally and execute once the car reconnects. You might see "command pending" for several hours. This is normal but annoying if you are trying to unlock the car right now. The workaround is to use the physical key fob as a fallback or walk to the car and use the NFC tap again to activate the short-range Bluetooth link directly. Another limitation is the app's battery consumption on older phones. On a Samsung Galaxy S20 and earlier devices, the background location services and constant Bluetooth polling drain about eight percent per hour of active use. If you are relying on the app throughout the day, keep a charger handy or switch to manual command mode to reduce background polling. There is also a firmware bug in app version 2.1.4 where the fuel level reading shows zero after a cold start in temperatures below minus twenty degrees. The sensor recalibrates after five minutes of driving and the reading returns to normal. This only affects vehicles with the earlier generation fuel level sensor, so if your car was manufactured before mid-2023, keep this in mind during winter months.
Downloading the Aurus Remote Control Manual
The full manual is available on the official Aurus support website under the documentation section for your specific model year. It covers all button layouts, error codes, and the pairing diagrams in higher resolution than the in-app quick start guide. I recommend downloading the PDF and saving it to your phone's offline storage since the site occasionally goes down for maintenance without notice. The in-app help section is adequate for quick lookups but lacks the detailed troubleshooting flowcharts that the PDF contains. If you are dealing with a persistent pairing issue or an error code you cannot interpret, the PDF's appendix with the diagnostic trouble code table is the better reference. Error code B1042, for example, relates to the NFC antenna coil resistance being out of spec, which usually means the console padding has shifted and is pressing against the coil. Repositioning the console liner fixes it without a dealership visit. Overall the system works reliably once you get past the initial pairing quirks. The app updates every few months with new features, so check for updates in the store regularly. The remote functions are stable and the integration with the vehicle systems is tighter than most luxury brand apps I have used. Just keep the firmware current and remember the NFC placement trick, and you should not run into major issues.
