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But I think if the car is out of cell range, the app won't open to display location or SOC.
The OP wants "last known location/SOC".
That's true however wouldn't that same scenario impact VT or will it report last known?
In fact that's exactly what it does. Just open up the mobile app to the map page and watch your car move in almost real time. The app is getting that info from the Tesla servers, not the car. There is no direct connection between the app and the car.
I know there is no direct connection between the app, and the car. The servers communicate to the car through cell/wifi via a secure VPN connection.
But, it seems to me that it would be a massive amount of information coming into the Tesla's servers if every 250ms EVERY car out there communicated its information to the Tesla's servers. This would be a lot of data, and privacy issues would arise if Tesla had all this data.
The way I saw it working is the only when the position is requested (when the app starts the connection to the car through the server) does the servers collect that information from the car. That way the Tesla servers only have to communicate to the cars when information has been requested from the app.
The way the current app works is it gives no historical data. It simply tells the servers you wish to get X data from the car. I believe it does this because it has no historical data (data from before you opened the app).
Mine shows the blue dot, so perhaps you have to be within a certain distance of the car for it to show.I have a much less technical question and hoping someone can help me out.
When using the Mobile App, and you click on the location tab....clearly you can see where your car is. (with the red arrow) However, It thought you used to also be able to see where you (or more specifically, the phone) are located (with a blue dot, if I remember correctly.) Currently my app does not show that, and I'm wondering if something changed, or I just am mis-remembering this. there are also some buttons at the top of that screen, to the right of the menu. The third one clearly toggles between "map" and "earth" view, but what do the two other buttons do? Thanks for any help.