Auto-Homelink is my favorite feature of 7.1 as well.
I think the use of "automatically" in the first sentence might confuse some; per the example in second sentence, the pre-power-on garage door open is not automatic but still suppresses Auto-Close. Further, Auto-Open will work even if there was an Auto-Close since the last power-on. I.e., Tesla has accommodated those of us who occasionally have to hang a U-turn a few blocks from home because of forgetting to bring something.
Distance is the measure since you need to be out of the garage to successfully close the door. If you a) sat in the garage in gear waiting for your passenger, or b) didn't clear the door before the time limit; you'd have the door close (or try to close). Most doors have optical sensors to prevent the door from closing if something is between the sensors, but perhaps not all!
yeah thanks, I just re-read the manual and it says distance. for some reason I thought I had read/heard a timed dropdown option to skip. I was a little worried about it being timed as I back out of my very tight garage slowly. Enough things to concentrate on without worrying about a countdown timer!
I believe the option to *cancel* the door transmission is timed. So if you don't want the door to open or close, you can hit 'cancel' in the dropdown within the countdown period and prevent it from happening.
ok, I see what you mean, thanks.
As I mentioned above, auto-close for me seems a bit sporadic. So I wonder if you're on to something here about wifi playing a role...
Yes, that's what I've been seeing. Inconsistent behaviour from the car even when your personal routine is identical.
I suppose, never say never, but I have a hard time believing the car would use a wifi signal in preference to GPS. It knows where it is when you get to the garage. It knows how far it's moved into the garage (and odds are that the GPS is still functioning while the garage door is open). It should therefore know where it is when it wakes up. If it didn't save the coordinates when you shut the car down, it would soon get them from the GPS again. However, it might take a while to lock. And likely wouldn't start to lock until the garage door is open. Depending on how far asleep the car was when you got back in, that might determine how long it takes to get a solid positional understanding from the GPS satellites. Maybe we should be looking at whether there is a correlation between the elapsed time from waking the car with the garage door open, to putting it in reverse? I've noted that the auto-close function appears as soon as I select Reverse, if it's going to work. No delay. If it doesn't appear right then, it won't appear. Maybe 'fails' occur when R is selected prior to a solid GPS lock?
I'm just now beginning to learn about IFTTT (If This Then That - a good Google search!) and how it might work with a connected home. Knowing enough to be dangerous only, I'm wondering if Teslalog.com (developed by @mochouinard - Marc - on this forum) could one day include some IFTTT functionality. If it could, then you could (in theory, if I'm not too messed up) create an IFTTT recipe that would accept notice from teslalog.com that the lights should be switched on. Z-Wave LED's could be used, a Z-Wave wall socket, whatever... and the geo-fencing feature in Teslalog.com would be the trigger. Drive into the defined coordinates and the lights would come on, perhaps with a time delay before automatically shutting off again. With an IFTTT-compatible door controller installed in your garage, you could theoretically do this without using the Homelink in the car at all.
