Firmware 5.6

[rlawson4]

My 5.6 experience: in 24 hours I lost 4 miles range from a standard charge. I did have to back the car up and pull it forward once. So my guess is that it would have been 3 had I not woke the car up twice. It's a big improvement. With 4.5 I was losing 10-12 miles a day.

 

[Eggplant]

Edit: Couldn't sleep so I checked. Sure enough, the firewall was blocking the MS. It appears Tesla communicates using UDP/1194. Opened that up and the app connected immediately.

That's still interesting! That's probably Tesla home base communicating with the car. UDP/1194 is typically OpenVPN. Interesting!

 

[apacheguy]

That's still interesting! That's probably Tesla home base communicating with the car. UDP/1194 is typically OpenVPN. Interesting!

Yeah, but I would think it would be the other way around. Model S should be the client connecting to TM servers. It's been a while since I did OpenVPN myself, but I seem to remember the clients being able to connect through firewalls easily (i.e. no need to port forward).

 

[andrewket]

That's still interesting! That's probably Tesla home base communicating with the car. UDP/1194 is typically OpenVPN. Interesting!

This is my guess as well. I know Tesla can ssh or telnet (I sure hope it's ssh) into the cars. I doubt they would expose these interfaces to the public.

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Yeah, but I would think it would be the other way around. Model S should be the client connecting to TM servers. It's been a while since I did OpenVPN myself, but I seem to remember the clients being able to connect through firewalls easily (i.e. no need to port forward).

It would have to be the car reaching back. You can't guarantee the car won't be behind a NAT, or that it has network connectivity at all for that matter. The Tesla side is guaranteed to be up 24/7 and not behind a NAT.

 

[contaygious]

Got my 5.6 at a service center. The maps are much improved! Tried wifi browsing and it was very fast too. Happy so far. There was a delay when i put in my charging cable though until it made the click and turned blue. Not sure why.

 

[FredTMC]

Got my 5.6 at a service center. The maps are much improved! Tried wifi browsing and it was very fast too. Happy so far. There was a delay when i put in my charging cable though until it made the click and turned blue. Not sure why.

I have that annoying delay with the charge cable too!

 

[montgom626]

My 5.6 experience: in 24 hours I lost 4 miles range from a standard charge. I did have to back the car up and pull it forward once. So my guess is that it would have been 3 had I not woke the car up twice. It's a big improvement. With 4.5 I was losing 10-12 miles a day.

Recheck your range loss. It is more like 7 miles/24 hours with 5.6

 

[apacheguy]

Recheck your range loss. It is more like 7 miles/24 hours with 5.6

Well if that's true then vampire drain has not been cut in half as promised. I was hoping for something in range of 2-4 miles/day. Eagerly awaiting my update so I can test it out.

 

[ZBB]

Recheck your range loss. It is more like 7 miles/24 hours with 5.6

I averaged 7.2 miles lost per day on 4.5 when it was parked for a week at the airport once. Saw a similar loss when I was on vacation and it was parked in the garage at home -- plugged in and it would top off every other night.

I don't have 5.6 yet -- but would be surprised if it still loses 7/day after I upgrade...

 

[tomas]

Well if that's true then vampire drain has not been cut in half as promised. I was hoping for something in range of 2-4 miles/day. Eagerly awaiting my update so I can test it out.

Someone who cares should do multi day test. Sure, the person with 200 mi daily commute and no place to plug at work should worry about first day loss. But I think that's rare vs the airport commuter who has to park 5 days w/o charge. I'll bet subsequent daily loss far less if car not woken up.

 

[Kraken]

All of you who are seeing 4.5 size losses are checking to make sure sleep mode is actually turned on, right? If not, of course it isn't sleeping.

 

[Vger]

Tonight I had a strange problem where the media player crashed. It disappeared from the binnacle screen and on the center screen it would keep flipping through songs but not play anything. A reboot of the center screen fixed the issue.

I bet theses are just the kind of bugs that have kept 5.x out of most of our hands for so long!

 

[tomas]

I bet theses are just the kind of bugs that have kept 5.x out of most of our hands for so long!

if reboot fixes it's not a bug

 

[andrewket]

I've experienced the increased latency when pushing the charge port door release button. When plugging in the evse the lock doesn't engage as quickly as well.

 

[Vger]

if reboot fixes it's not a bug

I do not agree; it is just a more complicated bug, such as one that involves memory overflow/corruption or other long-lasting state.

 

[SeminoleFSU]

I do not agree; it is just a more complicated bug, such as one that involves memory overflow/corruption or other long-lasting state.

+ 1

 

[AlMc]

Recheck your range loss. It is more like 7 miles/24 hours with 5.6

Mine averages 3 miles lost/24 hours. Garage kept, temp 50-75 degrees. My experience is it is a HUGE improvement in vampire loss. Much greater than 50%.

 

[pgiralt]

if reboot fixes it's not a bug

You're kidding, right?

 

[dflye]

You're kidding, right?

Wait, I thought that was the Microsoft motto, not Tesla's?

 

[Lyon]

Ownership tells mw that we should all see 5.6 in the next few weeks.