I love my HomeLink setup, but this should make people quite happy, especially if it’s a geo-location-based solution like HomeLink!
Elon Musk on Twitter
(lol, I meant “garage”)
Elon Musk on Twitter
(lol, I meant “garage”)
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Usually WiFi connects too slow to make this work. So when you pull up your driveway it can take ~20s before WiFi detected your network and you can connect.
I really wonder how this will work.
I'm hoping it would work with cloud based services like MyQ. My Tesla garage bay door is connected to MyQ so I would love to be able to add that to the car (even though the MyQ API's are marginal at best)
(lol, I meant “garage”)
I think a garbage can opener is a feature that Tesla should provide!
By then we'll have all sold our houses and living in our cars #COVID-19should be complete in 3 to 5 years
Dang. I saw the post title and thought after the next update, my Model 3 would put out the trash for me.(lol, I meant “garage”)
not sure I can see how this feature would be an improvement over most of the solutions we've already come up with (e.g. Homelink, MyQ, Alexa, etc). Wifi signals die out at distances too close to the garage which means you'll be waiting for the door to open at least for a few seconds. That's fine and better than nothing, but is worse than most of our existing solutions -- no waiting at all.
However if the feature means being able to use the car's LTE data service to trigger the garage door opener, that's better. Overall I would love to be able to make better use of the LTE service (like hotspot, other apps, etc -- would make the $10/mo actually worth it).
ok... neither Homelink nor Alexa requires pulling out a phone or doing anything manually.There wouldn't be a point to requiring a WiFi signal when most of these services already have cloud based API's, In fact I don't think there's local control of MyQ.
It's better because I'm not pulling out my phone to open my MyQ garage door.
ok... neither Homelink nor Alexa requires pulling out a phone or doing anything manually.
It is my understanding that Alexa works fine with MyQ (and other cheap garage door opener solutions). It costs $25 to get an Echo Auto for your car to give your car Alexa. Then you don't have to fish around for your phone, just tell Alexa to open the garage from where ever you wish. (of course Alexa gives other benefits as well).Homelink is a $300 addon for a lot of us. Sure I would use it if I had it but I’m not paying $300 if my car can trigger a cloud based API for free. Plus it would be more reliable for those of us that back in to our garages since homelink in the Tesla seems to fail at that.
Alexa isn’t a garage door opener so it’s still MyQ or some other companies cloud service it’s interacting with. I also don’t have Alexa built into my car.