Anyone Use the Tesla 4U app?

[C141medic]

Stat's privacy policy is in plain language and the link is in the App Store) and make sure that they don't sell your data or share anything with third-party.

totally agree. I’d be more concerned with my data/personal information being sold. Third parties already know your location:


Despite promises to stop, US cell carriers are still selling your real-time phone location data

 

[fred-france]

To do that, one needs to constantly query the position of the car and that will impact the phantom drain. One of my main goals is to not affect phantom drain. Also, if every time the car moves from the parked location, you'll get a notification, you'd be annoyed and turn off notifications.

However, I'm considering a feature which the app issues a notification if you are far from the car and the car is not at home.

how many time per day do you request the car? and so how many battery % phantom drain by day do you think your application consums ?

 

[mswlogo]

TeslaFi is pretty much what I'm looking for, however $50 a year is too expensive for me.

I almost choked when I saw the TeslaFi price. Try Stats for Tesla if your on iOS. It's way nicer being an App than a Website. It's $5 one time fee and the Developer is constantly improving it.

 

[whatthe2]

I almost choked when I saw the TeslaFi price. Try Stats for Tesla if your on iOS. It's way nicer being an App than a Website. It's $5 one time fee and the Developer is constantly improving it.

It was $10 when I bought it, but great app and well worth it.

 

[mswlogo]

It was $10 when I bought it, but great app and well worth it.

Sorry I forgot. Maybe it was $10.

 

[whatthe2]

Sorry I forgot. Maybe it was $10.

$5, $10. Same difference

 

[mswlogo]

$5, $10. Same difference

Exactly.

 

[f8K37Sq31]

how many time per day do you request the car? and so how many battery % phantom drain by day do you think your application consums ?

Good question. This is answered in the FAQ in the app in more detail (Stats for Tesla app). I and several of my beta testers have measured the phantom drain with and without his app and the app does not have any measurable effect on phantom drain.

The histogram of phantom drain across all users of the app (attached) also shows that the mode (most frequent value) of the distribution is ~0.2mph (which is pretty good).

 

[f8K37Sq31]

It was $10 when I bought it, but great app and well worth it.

It's always been $10 except at the very beginning back in Jan 2017 when I first released it and it had only a fraction of the features that it has now.

 

[fred-france]

Good question. This is answered in the FAQ in the app in more detail (Stats for Tesla app). I and several of my beta testers have measured the phantom drain with and without his app and the app does not have any measurable effect on phantom drain.

The histogram of phantom drain across all users of the app (attached) also shows that the mode (most frequent value) of the distribution is ~0.2mph (which is pretty good).

So your app doesn't request tesla's server ? or only one time / day ?

 

[Valentine_13]

Re stop charge scheduling:
Yeah, I don't think I'll do just a stop charge. My current thinking is to implement a feature that you ask Siri what the start time should be and the app computes the start time which causes the car to reach the charge limit at the desired time. the user then can set the start time in the car.

Exactly!

For cold weather, when you want your car to be ready and warm enough to leave at 7 AM with a load of 90% that just finished charging.

 

[f8K37Sq31]

So your app doesn't request tesla's server ? or only one time / day ?

Yes, the app needs to query tesla servers in order to record information related to your car and show it in the app.
Tesla does not make any historical data available, so the app needs to query more than once a day to get the data. It queries about once every 30 min.

 

[fred-france]

Yes, for me it had crazy vampire drain of about 1 mile of range per hour. Had some nice features but I deleted due to crazy drain rates. Developer states the app has been updated to address that. It’s free so I’d install it and see how it works for you. You can always delete it and change your Tesla account password if you don’t like the app. I use Stats for Tesla now and it has a lot of great and useful features.

so i try T4U, and the offline mode : 1KWH in 48h parking. I think it's a very good consumption.

 

[SammichLover]

What about if you break your phone or loose it ?

I get a new one. Pronto. Because it is not only the literal key to my car, it is a crucial organizer to my life in general. Which is why this--

totally agree. I’d be more concerned with my data/personal information being sold. Third parties already know your location:


Despite promises to stop, US cell carriers are still selling your real-time phone location data

---gets me all sorts of choked up.

 

[fred-france]

T4U works in the model 3. a post was sent yesterday about it

 

[Jtt777]

unless tesla actually gives a blessing around the use of these services from a privacy and integity standpoint, as much as I want to use it, I am holding back for now