Firmware 8.1

[chillaban]

Thank you for these screenshots, I am wondering is there some sort of official Tesla patch notes, or release notes. that someone can link me to? please and thank you

Tesla used to do that in the good old days of 2015.... Unfortunately since version 7.1, they've not released any publicly accessible release notes apart from the ones that you can only see in the car if your car has that firmware installed.

Screenshots are as good as it gets

 

[pjw65]

Version 8.1 - 17.16.35

Same version info (AP1, Place Info and speech).

But now the favorites for TuneIn are working!

 

[cynix]

Version 8.1 - 17.16.35

Same version info (AP1, Place Info and speech).

But now the favorites for TuneIn are working!

I wonder if they've improved shuffle too...

 

[AustinP]

But now the favorites for TuneIn are working!

Can you elaborate what is working in the favorites that was not working before? In TuneIn, I have never had issues with those. Might be something I can learn.
Thanks

 

[S100D]

Got an update installing now. I'll throw release notes up if someone doesn't before me.

** Update: Screen shot attached. Version is 17.11.45. Yes, I double checked that. 17.11.45. Note, I was still at 17.11.3 prior to this update.

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Has anyone checked to see if while on autopilot the car recognizes cars stopped that are not currently on the display? Does the car stop and not run into the stopped car? If it does stop, does it resume after the stopped car starts moving again?

 

[chillaban]

Has anyone checked to see if while on autopilot the car recognizes cars stopped that are not currently on the display? Does the car stop and not run into the stopped car? If it does stop, does it resume after the stopped car starts moving again?

I tried a few times for fun: Most of the times, attempting to engage TACC results in an "Obstacle In Path" warning and it doesn't turn on. Even when no cars are shown on the IC.

The true test would be to engage above 18mph when a car isn't shown in front, as engaging below 18mph has a requirement that there's a car in front. But I haven't dared to do that — others are more than welcome to try as long as it's not on a blue 2017 S100D with SAS, UHFS, and EAP+FSD….

 

[Cyclone]

Tesla appears to have made a change to when the car is willing to go to sleep with 8.1 (I'm on 17.14.35) that is of interest to people who monitor their car via a logging site like TeslaFi. Past behavior has been that the car would not go to sleep unless it has not been polled for 15-30 minutes, meaning that the car has a higher vampire loss because it never enters sleep mode. Because the higher vampire loss is an issue for some folks, some logging software/sites, like TeslaFi, implement special logic to suspend polling for a time, allowing the car to go to sleep at the cost of potentially missing some data.

With 17.14.35, I am finding that my car is willing to sleep when idle even while being actively polled. My specific experience is with TeslaFi, where my configuration permits continuous polling once every minute from 7 AM to 11 PM. On days where the car is idle, I am finding the car is entering the sleep even during the daytime hours, when previously it would not. The car may go online for brief periods, but then it happily goes back to sleep. I call this "napping." On days where I use the car, I have seen this napping up until I drive the car. Once I have driven the car, it won't nap any more until the next day, after a night time sleep.

Note that for the car to sleep, it appears that the options for energy savings must be selected and continuously connected must be unselected. This is my configuration.

I've had the opposite problem since getting 8.1. With energy saving on, always connected unselected, range mode off, TeslaFi reports left and right, "You car did NOT fall asleep". Over and over and over again. It will eventually fall asleep, but more often than not fails to. In 8.0, it went to sleep almost every time TeslaFi stopped polling for 15 minutes.

 

[pjw65]

Can you elaborate what is working in the favorites that was not working before? In TuneIn, I have never had issues with those. Might be something I can learn.
Thanks

When listening a Tune-In Radio station I press the heart to add it to the favorites.
In the versions before 17.16.35 (8.1) nothing happened (actually I could see sometimes that the station was added to the favorites and disappeared 0.1 seconds later). I could only add FM-Radio-Stations.
Now I can find and choose them in the favorites and also rotate the Tune-In-Favorites-Stations with the left buttons of the steering wheel.

Adding Favorites was working before 8.1 also, but rotating has never worked for me.

 

[fasteddie7]

Version 8.1 - 17.16.35

Same version info (AP1, Place Info and speech).

But now the favorites for TuneIn are working!

Seems like the map issues are fixed as is homelink with auto park!

 

[AustinP]

When listening a Tune-In Radio station I press the heart to add it to the favorites.
In the versions before 17.16.35 (8.1) nothing happened (actually I could see sometimes that the station was added to the favorites and disappeared 0.1 seconds later). I could only add FM-Radio-Stations.
Now I can find and choose them in the favorites and also rotate the Tune-In-Favorites-Stations with the left buttons of the steering wheel.

Adding Favorites was working before 8.1 also, but rotating has never worked for me.

Ok got it. I have not changed the list in the last months, so probably did not notice it was broken.
While on the topic, quick question: I have fm favorites as well as tunein stations.
If a tunein fav is selected, I can rotate with the left buttons the tunein favorites but the rotation remains within the tunenin stations, so never includes the fm stations. If I chose a fm station from the favorites it's even weirder. I can rotate three fm stations then it jumps back to the first fm one. You experience the same? (Done already many reboots and still same behavior)

 

[pjw65]

If a tunein fav is selected, I can rotate with the left buttons the tunein favorites but the rotation remains within the tunenin stations, so never includes the fm stations. If I chose a fm station from the favorites it's even weirder. I can rotate three fm stations then it jumps back to the first fm one. You experience the same? (Done already many reboots and still same behavior)

Rotate within tunin, yes.
Only three fm, don't know, have not more saved.

 

[BertL]

It appears 17.24.28 has perhaps begun a larger distribution (Yes, I reported it on the Tracker). I received it overnight as my first update since 17.11.3 back on March 30.

Has anyone technically confirmed beyond speculation that 17.24.28 contains the long-awaited "kernel upgrade"? Release notes of "With this release, we're continuing to improve your Model S experience with software fixes and enhancements" does not provide a clue . If the kernel update has arrived, I'm hopeful at least some of the long-standing intermittent USB, CID and Infotainment bugs may be resolved with general error recovery improvements that have tagged-along with the OS. Only time will tell.

 

[apacheguy]

Kernel update occurred in 17.18. See @Ingineer

I wouldn't expect improvements of the nature you describe since those mainly have nothing to do with the kernel but rather the Qt apps

 

[hmmm]

Imagine this: you're home on a late week night, laying comfortably in bed reading your favorite book, when your phone buzzes and it's a software update notification.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could tell your car to go ahead and update right then and there, instead of getting out of bed, getting dressed, and walking down to the garage to initiate the update?

"Someone" hit "Disagree" on this? Why wouldn't be nice? Not saying it is going to happen or should even be implemented in the grand scheme of things, but it "would be nice". YMMV...

 

[hmmm]

Kernel update occurred in 17.18. See @Ingineer

I wouldn't expect improvements of the nature you describe since those mainly have nothing to do with the kernel but rather the Qt apps

Since I am on 17.14...any noticeable improvement with the new kernel?

 

[msnow]

Since I am on 17.14...any noticeable improvement with the new kernel?

I just got 17.24.28 yesterday afternoon. Not enough time to check it out yet.

 

[bmah]

"Someone" hit "Disagree" on this? Why wouldn't be nice? Not saying it is going to happen or should even be implemented in the grand scheme of things, but it "would be nice". YMMV...

I'm not that person, but the post in question was replying to an assertion I made that was basically why I didn't think this feature (remotely triggered software updates) was that important. Perhaps the person who hit Disagree was agreeing with me? That's a guess.

(If I really don't agree with something I think it's a better idea to actually write a post saying why, like I did in this case. Clicking Disagree, like someone else did, is fast and easy, but it doesn't provide much insight, as in this case.)

Bruce.

 

[bmah]

Kernel update occurred in 17.18. See @Ingineer

I wouldn't expect improvements of the nature you describe since those mainly have nothing to do with the kernel but rather the Qt apps

The tricky thing is that there could be improvements in the apps that have nothing to do with the newer kernel, but are nevertheless a part of the latest firmware. Like @BertL said, only time (and user testing/reporting) will tell. (Cough cough detailed release notes cough cough.)

Bruce.

 

[apacheguy]

Since I am on 17.14...any noticeable improvement with the new kernel?

There really aren't any noticeable user facing improvements in the UI

 

[MarcG]

I'm not that person, but the post in question was replying to an assertion I made that was basically why I didn't think this feature (remotely triggered software updates) was that important. Perhaps the person who hit Disagree was agreeing with me? That's a guess.

(If I really don't agree with something I think it's a better idea to actually write a post saying why, like I did in this case. Clicking Disagree, like someone else did, is fast and easy, but it doesn't provide much insight, as in this case.)

Bruce.

Yeah I agree it's not an important feature, just a nice to have - which is why I said "wouldn't it be nice if"

Beats me as to why someone would dislike/disagree with this wishlist feature. Not to name any names for the sake of it, but perhaps the user in question (@MasterT) can enlighten us?