Hey all,
Good news,
Automatic Behaviors is here!
An update for
Dashboard for Tesla is now available (1.19.0) sporting some hefty new features, quality of life improvements, and bug fixes.
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Automatic Behaviors
A new Advanced Controls feature, you may now schedule vehicle commands to be sent automatically based on conditions you set for yourself.
You can automatically do things like start the HVAC per your Monday-Friday work schedule, or start and stop charging exactly when you want, or close the sun roof, lock the car and set the charge limit every night, or honk the horn every 15 minutes to be annoying.
Automatic behaviors are composed of automatic actions that execute linearly based on your set conditions.
Currently, only 1 condition is supported -
Time. This can either be an interval or an exact time and on which days of the week.
I plan to add more conditions in the future, such as vehicle status and weather. For example, this will allow you to automatically check the weather every 30 minutes for precipitation in which case close the sun roof, or automatically stop charging when past a certain state-of-charge.
Currently, there are 2 automatic actions supported -
Vehicle Command &
Delay.
The
Delay action simply causes the automatic behavior to delay execution before continuing on to the next automatic action. So if you want to honk the horn 5 times with 5 seconds in between each honk, go nuts.
The
Vehicle Command action can be any of the following supported commands:
- Start HVAC
- Stop HVAC
- Set Temperature
- Flash Lights
- Honk Horn
- Lock Doors
- Unlock Doors
- Sun Roof Control
- Set Charge Limit
- Start Charging
- Stop Charging
- Open Charge Port Door
- Close Charge Port Door
You may also instruct a vehicle command to
wait for completion such that the automatic behavior will delay execution until the vehicle command successfully completes (indicated by the red stop sign adjacent to an automatic action)
There are endless ways to configure your automatic behaviors, I look forward to hearing some of your most useful setups.
Requires your device to stay powered on, and requires both your Tesla and your device to maintain internet connection.
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Smart Charging Upgrades
Smart Charging got some love the past few weeks as well functionally and aesthetically. The visual upgrades are self-explanatory.
Here are the functional upgrades:
- Added "Days of week" option
You may now specify which days of the week this smart charging location will be active on. This allows you to have multiple smart charging setups for the same location without conflict (think Weekdays vs Weekends).
- Added "Set charge limit" option
When enabled, this smart charging location will now set the charge limit to your desired amount when the session is active.
- Added "Disable location on session end" option
When enabled, this smart charging location will now disable itself on session end - this includes charge completion or interruption (unplugged, stopped, etc.).
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Other Changes
- "Summon & HomeLink" feature package has been renamed to "Advanced Controls" and includes the new Automatic Behaviors. You do not need to purchase "Advanced Controls" if you had already purchased "Summon & HomeLink"
- Added "Check For Update" feature
- UI received some love in various places
- Added disabling of extra, active smart charging locations that share the same location
- Added Tip-related settings for showing tips and resetting shown tips
- Added battery optimizations warning notification setting, when disabled will show a short toast instead
- Lot o' bug fixes (read: edge-case fixes)
- More misc. improvements
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Next Big Thing
Android Wear Support
Unfortunately I don't own an Android wear device, but I am still able to support it in the meantime albeit more slowly. That being said, if anybody is selling an old/used wear device I can use to speed up development, let's talk!
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Thanks again to
@agw and
@supratachophobia for helping beta test and pointing out all the room for improvement.
And thank all of you for your support and patience, please report any issues you have either on here or via
email. I'll be monitoring both channels closely per usual.
Use this full access code valid Thursday-only (I'll update for Friday tomorrow) to try out everything the app has to offer on your real vehicle completely free:
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Cheers!