Live Camera View in the U.K.

[MrT3]

I don’t think the car has a data limit. It’s not your phone is it

The app shouldn’t be aware of any data limit you may have on your phone.

There may not be a data limit for other functions on the car but I suspect Tesla has put one on the live view to keep their bandwidth costs down - possible both from a cellular point of view and bandwidth in/out of their data centres.

 

[doats1]

The app shouldn’t be aware of any data limit you may have on your phone.

There may not be a data limit for other functions on the car but I suspect Tesla has put one on the live view to keep their bandwidth costs down - possible both from a cellular point of view and bandwidth in/out of their data centres.

It’s possible they’ve imposed a temporary data limit during the Christmas period as a large number of car users will be trying it out and saturating bandwidth.

 

[gdallas]

The car can be connected to your phone via Bluetooth when in range, but won’t allow the doors to open until you’re really close to the car.

Have they changed the sensitivity recently? As I'd previously have the car locked in my driveway, and with my phone upstairs on my bedside cabinet, I could still manually/passively open the car some 8m away. It's the reason I disabled my phone key.

 

[Tony Hoyle]

People have problems opening the car if the phone is in their back pocket, let alone 8m away.. it has to be really close.

 

[Mr H]

My car is just the other side of my lounge window, if i leave my phone on the window ledge it won't let me in, less than 3 feet away

 

[Rooster6655]

Have they changed the sensitivity recently? As I'd previously have the car locked in my driveway, and with my phone upstairs on my bedside cabinet, I could still manually/passively open the car some 8m away. It's the reason I disabled my phone key.

I have never been able to do this and its not a widely reported issue, worth noting there is also a setting which doesn't auto lock the doors if at home.

 

[Irata]

For phone key distance to unlock, from the many prior discussions and my own experience, it really does vary from phone to phone. I have used one phone that won't unlock unless almost touching the car while another phone I can leave inside the house and open the doors. So I can understand the many different experiences.

I wonder if the phone key restriction for live sentry is deliberate to make it more difficult for unofficial apps to implement it.

 

[Peter 224]

My son is a GDPR/Data Security Manager for a MOD contractor. I asked him about this issue. He said that without recorded sound it is not of interest to the ICO's Office and even with it is doubtful, because how many smartphone and GoPro recordings are made with the approval/agreement of people in the video and then posted on the web?
The law is, as ever, a long way behind the technology.

 

[Veedear]

You hace to enable it in the car security section and in the app. I dii all that and can connect but no camera view

 

[Adopado]

You hace to enable it in the car security section and in the app. I dii all that and can connect but no camera view

Some people have found that their own wifi routers may block the feature. Try switching to 4G on the car and phone if you've not already tried it. You will need active Premium Connectivity.

 

[NewbieT]

2021.44.30.14 - iPhone 4.6.0.

Is Live View broken? I just get a spinning wheel in the app and it doesn’t load. Anyone else?

 

[bobbychariot]

My son is a GDPR/Data Security Manager for a MOD contractor.

Bet security clearance love family members posting stuff like this!

 

[Doudeau]

2021.44.30.14 - iPhone 4.6.0.

Is Live View broken? I just get a spinning wheel in the app and it doesn’t load. Anyone else?

Working for me just now.

 

[NewbieT]

Realised it doesn’t like the WiFi but it’s working on 4G. Never mind + thanks for checking.

 

[kaamaan]

"daily data limit" too

 

[Jonnymack74]

Is there any particular reason why legacy model s and x are not getting live view?