Going for a swim.... can you intentionally lock fob and iPhone in car?

[srwx]

You might be in trouble if the watch doesn't pair up with your phone. I don't exactly trust this - at least with my Android wear watch.

YMMV but my Huawei watch has never had any issues keeping paired, even when I leave my phone inside and take the dog out it happily switches over to wifi and continues to stay in sync. I use the watch to open the garage and unlock the Tesla when I just want get something out of it quickly and don't have the keys on me (e.g. for the many times I leave my sunnies in there)

 

[Cloxxki]

Modern problems. I used to just put my key on top of the left front wheel. Worked a charm every time.

 

[Brian May]

YMMV but my Huawei watch has never had any issues keeping paired, even when I leave my phone inside and take the dog out it happily switches over to wifi and continues to stay in sync. I use the watch to open the garage and unlock the Tesla when I just want get something out of it quickly and don't have the keys on me (e.g. for the many times I leave my sunnies in there)

I have a Huawei watch too. Sometimes I find if I walk away from my phone and come back it doesn't pair back immediately.

How do you unlock the car with a Huawei watch? Not been able to find anything, maybe requires a 3rd party app???

 

[Jeff-6293]

Not cheap but definitely less expensive & bulky than a small house safe to store your fob

Sundek LONG SWIM SHORTS FIXED WAISTBAND M532BDM06OT-004

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FYI I tried this. Then got to replace my water soaked iPhone. Turns out a heavy zip log kitchen bag won't necessarily remain watertight while one cavorts in the surf.

Perhaps a 'real' dry-bag. Or that safe...

 

[srwx]

I have a Huawei watch too. Sometimes I find if I walk away from my phone and come back it doesn't pair back immediately.

Perhaps it's more to do with the phone? I'm currently using a Pixel phone and before than a Sony Z3C - both of them paired with the watch with no issues.

How do you unlock the car with a Huawei watch? Not been able to find anything, maybe requires a 3rd party app???

I use the IFTTT app and a little service I wrote that runs on any internet connected server (e.g. Digital Ocean droplet, AWS EC2, Google Cloud or even a RaspberryPi on a home internet connection, etc.). The source code and how to set it up is available here:

GitHub - scottweston/ifttt-tesla

Initially I wrote it so I can have Google Assistant do actions on my Tesla (

shows a beta version, it's now considerably quicker with the new version published to github) but of course once that service is running you can easily hook it into any IFTTT applet. To get it on my watch I create a "Button" applet instead of a "Google Assistant" applet like is explained on Github. Quick demo using the watch:

(video only just uploaded so HD quality might still be processing )

 

[Brian May]

Oh wow! I am currently attending linux.conf.au, so have only had a quick glance at your work; however it does look very interesting. Will try it ASAP. Thanks.

 

[srwx]

Oh wow! I am currently attending linux.conf.au, so have only had a quick glance at your work; however it does look very interesting. Will try it ASAP. Thanks.

Cool, say hello to Ian Firns/Brett James if you see them (cohorts from the Ballarat Hackerspace). I would have been at LCA this year but wasn't organised enough to take the week off

 

[Tozla]

Just wondering if the OP ever successfully tried out this scenario.

 

[Brian May]

Perhaps it's more to do with the phone? I'm currently using a Pixel phone and before than a Sony Z3C - both of them paired with the watch with no issues.

I have a Pixel phone too... Most of the time it is OK, however sometimes it remains unconnected for long periods of time with no obvious reason (e.g. the phone and watch are with me the entire time). So I wouldn't trust the connection as my only means of being able to unlock my car.

 

[Tozla]

I have a Pixel phone too... Most of the time it is OK, however sometimes it remains unconnected for long periods of time with no obvious reason (e.g. the phone and watch are with me the entire time). So I wouldn't trust the connection as my only means of being able to unlock my car.

The iPhone and Apple watch maintain a reliable connection when in close proximity. I would trust it to work IF the watch can be used to unlock the door while the iPhone is in the car.

 

[Shock-On-T]

How about taking just the key, but painting it red and putting Matchbox Car decals on it
Hidden in plain sight!

 

[Tozla]

How about taking just the key, but painting it red and putting Matchbox Car decals on it
Hidden in plain sight!

Some snot nosed kid will probably run off with it.

 

[Oz Will]

Some snot nosed kid will probably run off with it.

On a similar thought (and assuming the watch doesn't work for some reason), depending on the beach and how many cars are there, could you put an old type car key on the Tesla keyring and make the Tesla key look like it is the key chain tag and the old key look like it is the working key? Maybe a 1980s type metal key or similar - the local Sunday market has a guy who sells old keys and key chains sometimes). Unless a thief has watched you from the car or until more people know how the Tesla keys work, odds are they will think all that is on offer is an old car that just isn't worth the risk. Time to hit the next towel instead!

 

[TexLaw]

A cool modern-day interpretation of this feature would be a fingerprint sensor on the door handle (similar to newer iPhones).

You might not want that just yet. A fingerprint sensor that is secure enough to protect your car to the degree I expect you would want it to also may refuse your attempt at entry when you've been swimming and have prune hands.

 

[Tozla]

You might not want that just yet. A fingerprint sensor that is secure enough to protect your car to the degree I expect you would want it to also may refuse your attempt at entry when you've been swimming and have prune hands.

It doesn't even need to be prune fingers not to work. A little bit of moisture and the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone does not work.

 

[baillies]

Any update on testing? Did you get it to work?

You may be interested in checking the key dead zone location mentioned at 2:00 in this video, I guess S is similar

You may want to check for radio signal outside the car as a radio repeater/rebroadcast maybe able to access the car. Safer to wrap key in foil or tin box as mentioned above, or you could let me know the beach and I can test for you ;-)

I am now wondering if anyone is scanning cars at the beach to see if phones have been left inside???

My guess is they will enable face recognition using the side pillar mounted AP2 cameras and make this irrelevant at some stage. This would be useful for Tesla Network so the car only opens for the relevant people unless they rely on a phone unlock method.

 

[jmr-]

I surf a lot but I've never tried any of these.

What I might do is take my apple watch next time and try that!

 

[Tozla]

I surf a lot but I've never tried any of these.

What I might do is take my apple watch next time and try that!

Awesome. Please report back. I take delivery in late May and will be testing this too.