Data limit reached?

[RichardTheKing]

Is there any data limit on the premium connectivityconnectivity?

 

[NewbieT]

Try 4G on your phone instead of WiFi.

 

[MP3Mike]

Yes there is a limit to how much you can stream the car cameras over the cellular network.

 

[Terry F]

Not gospel, but I think that I read somewhere it was limited to 15 minutes per day for live streaming the cameras.

 

[init6]

If only there was a book that held all this info...

View Live Camera is limited to approximately 15 minutes of cumulative usage per day.

 

[3lektrisiert]

If only there was a book that held all this info...

and when the car is connected with wifi? is there an workaround?

 

[M1tch]

The car is streaming over Wi-Fi not cellular so it’s. It costing tesla.

 

[3lektrisiert]

The car is streaming over Wi-Fi not cellular so it’s. It costing tesla.

how can the car stream Live Camera via wifi, if you are not conntected to any wifi or if you don't have wifi?

Live Camera is streaming on cellular if you are not connected to wifi ...

 

[M1tch]

how can the car stream Live Camera via wifi, if you are not conntected to any wifi or if you don't have wifi?

Live Camera is streaming on cellular if you are not connected to wifi ...

Sorry was replying to the post above mine. Normally, yes the car is on cellular, but if you connected it to Wi-Fi (at home or work for example) it would use your Wi-Fi and not cellular so no need to cap your streaming to 15 mins.

That said why is the OP watching the cameras so often?

 

[GeorgeSymonds]

It certainly doesn’t work if you don’t have premium connectivity, even on Wi-Fi. Personally I doubt they’ve removed the limit if you do have premium and using Wi-Fi but I imagine only a test would reveal the answer as it’s quite nuanced

 

[init6]

and when the car is connected with wifi? is there an workaround?

Are you expecting Tesla to publish a workaround to bypass their premium connectivity in the manual?

 

[3lektrisiert]

Are you expecting Tesla to publish a workaround to bypass their premium connectivity in the manual?

Have I asked how to hack/cheat/crack tesla? No!

I asked if the data limit can be bypassed if the car in connected to own wifi not not to Tesla's cellular connection...

How some here go out of their way to deliberately misunderstand things...

 

[DrJFoster]

In fairness a "workaround" implies an unofficial route to get it to work, an official route would be in the user manual and a related question might be simply "how do you get it to work". Language is a wonderful thing

 

[DrivenRay]

Yes I got this error for the first time last week when I checked too much on my puppy while grabbing lunch, 15 mins seems very arbitrary and not particularly “Premium”

 

[Andywil]

Yes I got this error for the first time last week when I checked too much on my puppy while grabbing lunch, 15 mins seems very arbitrary and not particularly “Premium”

Why is 15mins very arbitrary?
Whatever limit is applied is just as arbitrary, and you can't expect to live stream video without some limit on data usage.

 

[Irata]

Even on WiFi, it will be streaming though Tesla's servers and so they will have some cost. It won't be much but they do always have a cost.

Overall they want to cover their costs for this, so I'm sure they've done the maths and even know what percentage of the time WiFi is used.

It's just the same for all premium connectivity features, it will work over WiFi when it can but overall they want to cover their costs plus a bit.

 

[init6]

People spending 15 minutes a day looking at what's around their car is why we have a data limits

 

[DrivenRay]

Why is 15mins very arbitrary?
Whatever limit is applied is just as arbitrary, and you can't expect to live stream video without some limit on data usage.

From my perspective it is arbitrary because I pay a monthly for “premium” connectivity, it is close to what I pay for a month of Mobile phone service with a 100GB data cap, most of my large data downloads with the tesla are on WI-FI so 15 mins of low resolution streaming now and then isn't costing much to provide.
I can expect what I feel is normal for a customer to expect, different folks have different expectations and that’s ok with me, for me it feels cheap as opposed to “Premium”, that was my only honest perspective. I’m happy you are happy with your own expectations.

 

[init6]

You're not paying for a data service, you're paying for features.

 

[MP3Mike]

I don't think there is a limit on downloads, you could watch as much Netflix as you want, or stream Spotify. It seems that only uploads are limited.