How to I get my Model X to preheat in the winter mornings?

[TOBASH]

2017 Model X P100D.

It was sent to autosense my daily routine, but sadly it has not after 2 months.

How do I schedule her to warm the vehicle up at certain times on certain days?

How do I get her to pre-warm the batteries for certain times on certain days?

Best,

T

 

[wildag]

There’s a setting in the cars configuration screen that when enabled supposedly learns your habits and pre-warms to match. I’ve never noticed it purposefully pre-heating, so I don’t know if it works.

If you’re handy with software, you can setup a service that uses TeslaMS or some other library to communicate directly with your Tesla account. You can then write software that performs what ever tasks you want. For example, I use Homebridge with my iPhone to have Siri perform various tasks with my Model X.

 

[thimel]

I just use the Tesla app to tell the car to warm up a few minutes before I leave. I sometimes use the EV car addition to Google Assistant so I can orally request my car to turn on the climate control.

 

[xyeahtony]

use the phone app? :|

 

[1375mlm]

use the phone app? :|

I guess why this isn’t the go-to option is that often times, in my experience, it can be a bit clumsy.
The app can take up to a minute and a half to load up, which isn’t what I’d call seamless, especially when it’s sleeping (MCU2 problems)

I think what the OP is trying to get it is a car that’s warmed up without spending a couple minutes out of the morning routine to make it so, since it’s a fairly predictable schedule (I’m assuming)

 

[Tummy]

We use Teslafi.com to schedule it, along with a slew of other useful information. There is an annual fee.

 

[BigMskiman]

Apple watch "Remote S" app, it's on your wrist.

 

[TOBASH]

use the phone app? :|

The phone app does NOT work as advertised and sucks as far as warming the batteries when heater is on.

We need a separate App function to specifically heat the battery while using the house charger for electric current to allow long trips to begin with a warm fully charged battery that does not waste 30 miles of charge at 800watts per hour of needed charge for long haul driving.

Of course I know there is an App, and of course I know how it is supposed to work. The problem is the App does not work as advertised.

I also am aware of auto-schedule, but it is NOT working for me in my vehicle...

Again, we need a SPECIFIC app function that uses wall current to warm a battery prior to driving! [so as not to waste battery energy needed for the drive].

 

[TOBASH]

Apple watch "Remote S" app, it's on your wrist.

I don't own an apple watch, and will probably never own one. I see no reason when I can just reach into my pocket and look at my phone.

 

[Asterix187]

It would be great if the app learnt that I generally leave the house 45 minutes after I wake up and therefore (using motion of the phone) realise I was up and preheat the car!

 

[TOBASH]

We use Teslafi.com to schedule it, along with a slew of other useful information. There is an annual fee.

After spending a gob of money on a top of the line Model X P100D, not sure I feel happy purchasing a function that should be free and used to be easy to access on the screen in prior firmware/software.

 

[NYSea]

After spending a gob of money on a top of the line Model X P100D, not sure I feel happy purchasing a function that should be free and used to be easy to access on the screen in prior firmware/software.

While I get what you're saying on principle, if the app doesn't do what you want and there's a solution that does what you want at a pretty marginal cost, why wouldn't you just do it? Isn't like $50 for the year?

 

[mswlogo]

I don't own an apple watch, and will probably never own one. I see no reason when I can just reach into my pocket and look at my phone.

I never use my Apple Watch to tell time

 

[SpudLime]

The STATS app for iOS lets you schedule preheating.

 

[dewittbo]

The STATS app for iOS lets you schedule preheating.

What is the STATS app & how do you use it for this?

 

[SpudLime]

What is the STATS app & how do you use it for this?

It’s an app you can buy for iOS only.

Search TMC and google will give you a good summary.

 

[Seattle Tom]

OP, in my experience, Smart Preconditioning worked “okay.” To be fair, I gave it about three weeks and felt that maybe it did the right thing 60% of the time so perhaps I needed to be more patient. In the end, I decided that just turning on the heat 10 minutes before I got to the car did the trick for the mild Seattle climate. YMMV of course.

But if you’ve turned on Smart Preconditioning, and given it two months of training, I’d say it won’t work for you. Turn it off and go the manual route.

For the manual route to warm up the battery at a certain time, you can do via the Tesla app...though not as intuitively as I’d like yet. Instead of using the app to “Have the car warm and ready to go at 6:45 am” (which how it should work!) you have to calculate the charge time for your available battery, then use the app to “Start charging the car at 3:30 am” (or whatever time will get you to your desired percentage at 6:45 am). As long as you finish charging right about the time you need to leave, the battery will be warm and ready.

It’s an extra mental step that shouldn’t be necessary, so I hope Tesla will update the app with a better way to manage that soon!

 

[verygreen]

At least the API is somewhat understood, so one can cobble a script using e.g. information from this thread: Tesla Owner API Tutorial (All you need is your browser)

Best of all - it does not really cost you anything.

 

[watchalamaning]

Being in the minus 20's here, I can say the new version of pre-warming is not working properly. Interesting that we can now pre-warm rear seats...if it could only work all the time....Some mornings, my seat and steering are just cold, while the app says otherwize....They shoud/will fix it. For the moment, I have frustrations....Anyone feeling the "old" pre-warm was better, like I do?

 

[theoceanwaves]

does pre-conditioning actually work anyway, what is the algorithm ?