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[JohnO2]

Reinstalled the app on the watch after the last update, and now it keeps crashing before I even get it open. Won't let me send report either, just says that no apps can do this when I hit the reportbutton.
Works fine on the phone.

 

[SG57]

@JohnO2 , yikes that's no good. I'll take a look right now.

As for the inability to send the crash report, it's likely saying it can't find an app to report because your watch doesn't have an app capable of sending email. I'll update the app to provide a fallback in this case so you can at least share the crash data, such as over text message.

 

[SG57]

@JohnO2 , ah silly me, got it fixed will have it released here in a few. Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

[Siggy101]

@SG57 Any chance you are working on geofences for automatic behaviours? I would love to be able to set my charge limit to 50% at home but 90% whenever I leave home. I cannot do this on time only because sometimes my trips are unpredictable.

 

[SG57]

@Siggy101 , I plan to add more conditions to automatic behaviors with the vehicle status (which includes vehicle location) being one of them. This would allow you to configure geofencing on your own, such as once an hour check if your vehicle location is within a X meter radius of your home, if so set the charge limit to 50% if not already set.

As of right now I'm committed to finishing Wear Summon support before other feature improvements.

 

[Siggy101]

It sounds like you've got your hands full there. Thanks for the confirmation that geofencing is on the road map. I look forward to it in due course

 

[GatorGuy]

@SG57

I am experiencing tremendous vampire drain. On the order of 15 to 17% in a 24 hr period.

When I revoked the token for the app, it dropped to less than 1%. I don't see any settings about how often it's polling the car.

 

[SG57]

@GatorGuy , oh wow that's a significant amount. Do you have any background services enabled, such as smart charging, automatic behaviors, home screen widgets, Wear devices, etc.?

What's the average outside temperature where you're at? Are you plugged at all during the 24 hours? Is the car stationary or is it moved some times during the 24 hours?

What firmware is your Tesla running? Does it have the climate keeper feature that allows you to keep the HVAC running after getting out of the vehicle?

What battery size is your vehicle? On a 75D with max range ~250 miles, 15% would be ~37 miles over a 24 hour period which would roughly equate to running the HVAC for a day at room temperature-ish.

I may be way off on this so just a guess, but if you recently upgraded your Tesla firmware and gained the climate keeper feature you also received a hidden change in remote HVAC activation behavior. Previously when remotely starting the HVAC it would turn off automatically after 30 minutes, with the newer firmware this is no longer the case. It will run indefinitely until you start the car, turn it off remotely, or the car battery drops below 20%. I frequently turned the HVAC on for lunch and forgot about it for hours only to find significant drain by the time I did go out to the car.

 

[Siggy101]

Yeah, that change on the app from 30 mins HVAC activation to it staying on until turned off could well be the cause here, but it was implemented a long time ago in Tesla-time.
I'm interested to see where this one goes as I had to stop using TeslaFi due to vampire drain / the car never sleeping that the dev never did get to the bottom of. The only solution was stop using TeslaFi.
(popcorn)

 

[Babolino]

Hi all,

Any chance to get a kind of gesture on Android watch to open the trunk ? Maybe also geo data implemented to not open the trunk everytime I am shaking the watch ..

 

[SG57]

@Siggy101 , I believe there's a bug with the newer firmwares that have this climate keeper change where the HVAC does not turn off after 30 minutes. The smart preconditioning feature in the car that automatically turns the HVAC on/off based on common departure times but I don't think it ever actually turns it back off in the event you do not use the car. This needs more testing, but could explain why some users are seeing vampire drain sporadically.

@Babolino , interesting idea. I like it, but yes the gesture would need to be quite complex with some safeguards to protect against erroneous trunk actuating commands in the middle of the day. Definitely worth exploring sometime!

 

[scottf200]

Is there a widget to turn this pre-condition on. I only want it on for the minutes specified. I want quick access. Sorry if I missed it.

 

[SG57]

@scottf200 , that's good idea and has been requested before, also it really isn't that difficult or time consuming to add. Only reason I haven't thrown it in there yet is I honestly plan to update the controls widget to support complete customization of the commands it presents, this would allow you to essentially create the widget yourself.

I'll see about adding it as an exception in the next release.

 

[BigTonyTones]

@scottf200 , that's good idea and has been requested before, also it really isn't that difficult or time consuming to add. Only reason I haven't thrown it in there yet is I honestly plan to update the controls widget to support complete customization of the commands it presents, this would allow you to essentially create the widget yourself.

I'll see about adding it as an exception in the next release.

Now that would be amazing! I was wondering when that feature would be coming. Glad to hear your working on it

 

[BerTX]

I was wondering if anyone else has had an issue with accidentally re-setting the climate control temperature setting while swiping through pages in the app? I have done it several times and caught it when it happened, but a couple of times I have been driving along and realized the driver side temp was set to 81 and the passenger still set to 70.

I have the same issue to a lesser extent when swiping past the Controls page. I know that is a problem, so I move up and swipe across the tabs menu at the top. I guess I need to train myself to do that all the time.

Just wondering if anyone else has this finger-fumble.

 

[MMC-]

I was wondering if anyone else has had an issue with accidentally re-setting the climate control temperature setting while swiping through pages in the app? I have done it several times and caught it when it happened, but a couple of times I have been driving along and realized the driver side temp was set to 81 and the passenger still set to 70.

I have the same issue to a lesser extent when swiping past the Controls page. I know that is a problem, so I move up and swipe across the tabs menu at the top. I guess I need to train myself to do that all the time.

Just wondering if anyone else has this finger-fumble.

I've done this a few times. So use to just swiping wherever my finger is.

 

[scottf200]

Any one else want/need an 'Automatic Behavior' to work when the Phone connect to the cars bluetooth? ie. Start HVAC

My HVAC is usually off since I ran into a problem with it running when I was not around.

 

[scottf200]

FYI, smart Charging seems to being doing a lot of start/stop/start/stop lately. Often it happens 2 times but like last night it was 4 times.

 

[SG57]

@scottf200 , the starting and stopping is it throttling the charging. This can happen when the charge rate setting (20.9 in your case) is too much lower than the actual charge rate it experiences. This charge rate setting is a rolling average over time as more and more actual charge rates are experienced, but you can adjust it immediately by changing the setting yourself leaning towards a higher charge rate (say 22.0).

 

[scottf200]

@scottf200 , the starting and stopping is it throttling the charging. This can happen when the charge rate setting (20.9 in your case) is too much lower than the actual charge rate it experiences. This charge rate setting is a rolling average over time as more and more actual charge rates are experienced, but you can adjust it immediately by changing the setting yourself leaning towards a higher charge rate (say 22.0).

FYI, that I've been charging this cars since mid-Dec and so I would think the 'rolling average over time' (days? weeks? months?) charge rate may not be working as well as it could then. You can see from my TeslaFI info that the 'avg Voltage' doesn't change much. HTH explain.

I guess I could manually change it but thought you may want to tweak something if users can provide some samples.