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Yeah I get that a schedule exists in the manual. I was just hoping this high tech computer would give reminders. Got a lot of crap on my mind all the time.

Sorry to dredge up for a semi-related post. Do I need to remember these maintainence intervals or will the car remind me when coming up on the mileage markers? I’m only at 5600 miles.

Thanks. I have a windshield visor but didn’t think to put it in. I’ll give it a shot. I’ve been thinking about getting side window shades to when parking in the summer sun, since they aren’t tinted either.

Have there been issues with the temperature reading high? I just got a notification of cabin overheat protection a while ago, which was surprising given its 61 outside (car was reading 65). The interior temperature was ready 110. The car was in the sun, so I suppose it’s maybe possible. I moved...

Actually, it looks like the roof glass blocks heat really well, so maybe a roof shade isn’t as necessary. Has anyone tried window shades like these just for parking? I wonder how much they’d help. I do have a windshield shade. I wonder how much just throwing a blanket on top of the roof would...

It seems like a new one hits the market every week. Is there any consensus on which is the best in terms of fit, coverage, and heat reduction? The car is a 2023 M3 (RWD). I live in WI, so it’s only particularly hot for a fairly short period of time in July and August. I also don’t make a habit...

Darn. Homelink is out of stock. Maybe my local place has some sitting around.

Last question: I back into the garage? This should be no issue for auto opening and closing with Homelink, right? I only ask because it looks like the sensor is in the front end of the car.

So the following issue you had was with MyQ NOT Homelink? In my case, our first half mile drive from the house is a dead spot with no connection. So homelink always lost it's connection when I drove away, while being in the "garage closing" state. Unfortunately, homelink could pretty much never...

To build off of that, Homelink on the Tesla screen is not able to tell you if the door is opened or closed, so you have to visually confirm, right? Or if you have MyQ, you can look there.

Thanks for all the unrelated replies. What a helpful community. All of this just reminded me of the one small flaw in my Tesla plan: I don’t carry keys any more. So, should the opener stop working/die while it’s shut and no one is home, I’m locked out of the house. Good reminder to go hide a...

Oh I see. Duh. The car remembers via gps where the opener is.

One more bizzare question that is taking this thread off-topic. How much battery does Homelink use? I’m mainly wondering about auto open and close. How is it sensing the car is near to the opener and to send the signal to open/close? Is it just constantly sending?

Just to confirm: to try out MyQ with a non-wifi/MyQ opener, I just need to order the free trial and I get all the hardware needed? I can also decide to just cancel the free trial even if I get the device adapter. With this free adapter it can monitor if the garage is open or closed through the...

How far away when leaving your garage do you go before it closes with Homelink? Can you adjust that? I’m hoping I can still back into the driveway just outside the door without it closing. Also, can you see the status of the garage door and close/open it remotely with Homelink? I’d assume only...

Remote control being a clicker? What’s the point of the MyQ hub then?

Is it easy to switch openers? We’ll likely get a new one in the next year.

How do you get things to open automatically with MyQ without paying for the subscription?

I’m torn between getting Homelink installed by Tesla and the MyQ option. I do have an old opener without MyQ or wifi. Are either of these even options then? With full features? Just confirming how these operate differently. Homelink essentially replaces the clicker and operates as it does by...

So, if the phone is on wifi, the signal to the cloud from the phone will go through wifi, meaning even if the phone has no cell service, it’ll go through. The SMS from the cloud to the car will always go through cellular, meaning the car must have some cell service even if on wifi.

When the phone is connected to wifi, does it send the message to wake through wifi, meaning the cell connection is irrelevant? I suppose I could just turn off cell data to try. Though, I think you can still send SMS messages even with cell data turned off.

Moreover, when on wifi, is the phone using wifi to communicate with the car or is it trying to use the cell connection? This seems like a dumb question as I assume wifi, but I thought I’d ask. We do have slightly different cell providers (I have the prepaid version through the same carrier...

Perhaps it was just chance on my wife’s phone. That said, I’ve shown it to other Tesla owners and they said it definitely wasn’t working correctly. I’ll check the settings. Are there any general settings to check as well?

If the phone key has nothing to do with it, why does it not wake up on my phone after trying for a few minute and then instantly work for my wife’s phone. Nothing else changed.

I’m pretty sure when I reinstalled the app, I had to set the phone up as a phone key again. Is there some other method for doing it that is different?

I seem to be having a continual problem of waking the car from the app. It’ll just spin forever on “Last seen X hours ago.” It does seem to wake usually if I open and close the app a half dozen times and try unlocking/locking the car. However, I’d rather not go through they rigamarole...

For what it’s worth, it connects pretty much right away when I’m home and on wifi. Everywhere else, it takes forever, unless I’m on spitting distance of the car and then it connects right away, too.

Okay. Thanks, all. So, I should just plan on pulling up the app several minutes in advance of when I want to start the climate?

What range should be expected when trying to connect to the car? I get the “last seen xx” until I’m about 100 yards of the car when outdoors and a much shorter distance when I’m indoors. Both my phone and the car have a few bars of cell service. For example, I can see my car though my office...