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Also, if someone starts preheating or pre-cooling the car in the final minutes of the charge, the charge may take longer from that point.
Good point on the preconditioning. During testing we found out it's aptly flagged as beta as it is not really starting at the correct time (much earlier). @SG57 already has something in the hopper to deal with "proper" preconditioning.
I wasn't referring to Tesla's "smart preconditioning." That's a whole separate can of worms.
I was referring to someone simply turning on heating or cooling, in preparation for the drive, while the car is still charging. This could be done manually, using the Dashboard For Tesla app, it could be done manually, using another app, or it could even be scheduled, via something like Visible Tesla.
In my case, I will probably schedule charges to end for whatever time my wife wants to leave in the morning. If I'm really on top of things, I may also schedule the car to start heating 15 minutes before she plans to leave, using Visible Tesla. But sometimes I fail to do that, and sometimes she leaves later than she expects to, and at those times she may use the Tesla app to just start the car heating. If the car happens to still be charging when we start heating, the charging may slow down a bit.
Could not agree more; looks great!Dude, that 1x1 SoC widget is PERFECT. Thank you so much for doing that!
On a side note, I never thought about charging at a lower rate in summer I guess because I only have 40A. Do you really see like the AC go off to keep the battery temp within range?
Love your app ... posted on google play how helpful the camper mode is for my autistic son. Can you add a camper mode widget ... maybe a stand alone .. I would use it every day .... Keep up the great work ......Thanks all. The control widget is excellent, starting HVAC or honking horn on a whim has been a joy. Any other useful widgets you might like to see?
@robz , if by alerts you mean the push notifications the official app provides such as charging started, charging completed, summon started, etc. unfortunately I cannot create custom, new, meaningful ones myself for multiple reasons the main being your vehicle sends its status changes to Tesla's servers, not one of my own.
So your vehicle sends a status update to Tesla's servers saying charge completed, which then their server determines based on your notifications subscriptions whether to send a push notification to the official app on your phone about this charge completion, which then your phone receives and displays. I should be able to allow modifying the notifications you're subscribed to from within Dashboard for Tesla as those have respective APIs I can integrate with, but you may still need the official app installed in the background. I'll look into this more, but I believe it's a dead-end without my own service constantly polling your vehicle to detecting change (not ideal by any means).
ideal_charge_rate = (charge_rate_setting + current_charge_rate) / 2.0
charge_rate_setting = charge_rate_setting + max( -5.0, min( 5.0, ideal_charge_rate - charge_rate_setting ) )
@Andyw2100 , good question on the charge rates and good point bringing up changing your amperage as that inherently changes your charge rate.
If you know your expected charge rate at a location has changed for whatever reason, then you have 3 options:
- Do nothing and after 1-2 nights the manual charge rate setting will adjust on its own (warning: these nights will likely be turbulent and inaccurate while the rate averages itself out)
- Change the manual charge rate setting yourself to match what you are now expecting
- Disable your existing location and add another location. Dedicate this new location for when charging at your different charge rate. Perhaps name the 2 locations distinctly say "Home 40 AMP" and "Home 72 AMP". Disable and enable the appropriate locations depending on your amperage setting. (do not have both enabled at the same time or only the top-most one will be used)
IOS version please! When?
When are you coming out with the iOS version?
iOS is by far the most used system. Just wondering why you didn't start with IOS in the first place.
@Drone Flyer , that's a fair question and wasn't a decision I made lightly, there were many factors.
I understand there is a large iOS user-base that own Teslas, regardless the official Tesla Motors Android app has over 100k downloads and growing.
- Experience - I'm most proficient with Android development
- Cost - iOS development is more expensive
- Potential - Android has greater freedoms for ideas, look at the background services
- Competition - iOS already had numerous 3rd party apps
- Testing - I have a lot more Android devices lying around than iOS
- Selfish Reasons - I use an Android as my daily (Pixel currently)
I plan to expand to iOS once I get the Android version fully realized with the ideas I have in mind with data logging, widgets, automatic behaviors, trip logging, and then some.
IOS version please! When?
I originally asked about 3 months ago. I assumed that by now an IOS app might be in the offing.Didn't you just ask that very recently?
And got this answer:
I originally asked about 3 months ago. I assumed that by now an IOS app might be in the offing.