Vendor Official Tessie app talk

[Utumno]

Sounds a lot like a firmware bug. Try restarting the car by holding down both scroll wheel buttons until the screen turns off. Send your account email to [email protected] and I can verify.

Holiday update hasn’t affected my drives getting logged, so hopefully the infotainment reset cures it.

I’ve taken to doing the 2 minute power down procedure after firmware upgrades, as bugs like that normally affect Mrs U first and asking her to reboot the car is something that only people with a stronger constitution than I dare attempt.

 

[Utumno]

Quick question: is there any way to disable the Tesla preconditioning toggle on departure or arrival to/from an area?

The wife is driving me mad setting the precondition in the Tesla app at random times and then forgetting to disable it again so preconditioning randomly starts up.

I basically want to set an automation to disable the setting when she leaves “Home” but weirdly there’s no “Disable Preconditioning” option that I can find in Tessie’s Automation area. I don’t want to turn off the climate when the vehicle leaves, just the preconditioning setting.

Is this possible? And if not, can it go into the feature backlog? I can’t be the only one with a forgetful SO

 

[JssonB]

Quick question: is there any way to disable the Tesla preconditioning toggle on departure or arrival to/from an area?

The wife is driving me mad setting the precondition in the Tesla app at random times and then forgetting to disable it again so preconditioning randomly starts up.

I basically want to set an automation to disable the setting when she leaves “Home” but weirdly there’s no “Disable Preconditioning” option that I can find in Tessie’s Automation area. I don’t want to turn off the climate when the vehicle leaves, just the preconditioning setting.

Is this possible? And if not, can it go into the feature backlog? I can’t be the only one with a forgetful SO

Yes, just set the temperature to a specific time.

 

[James@Tessie]

Quick question: is there any way to disable the Tesla preconditioning toggle on departure or arrival to/from an area?

The wife is driving me mad setting the precondition in the Tesla app at random times and then forgetting to disable it again so preconditioning randomly starts up.

I basically want to set an automation to disable the setting when she leaves “Home” but weirdly there’s no “Disable Preconditioning” option that I can find in Tessie’s Automation area. I don’t want to turn off the climate when the vehicle leaves, just the preconditioning setting.

Is this possible? And if not, can it go into the feature backlog? I can’t be the only one with a forgetful SO

Are you referring to Scheduled Departure preconditioning? That can only be disabled manually, and importantly, only when the car is at the address where it was enabled.

The car saves those settings per location, and there's no way to manage those locations, so there's no way to be at work and then disable it at home.

For those reasons it's better to tap the clock on the climate tile to schedule one time preconditioning.

 

[ngng]

Is there a way to auto-tag drives? I would like to auto-tag work commutes so I can see total mileage for tax purposes at the end of the year.

 

[Utumno]

Are you referring to Scheduled Departure preconditioning? That can only be disabled manually, and importantly, only when the car is at the address where it was enabled.

The car saves those settings per location, and there's no way to manage those locations, so there's no way to be at work and then disable it at home.

For those reasons it's better to tap the clock on the climate tile to schedule one time preconditioning.

Thanks James, yes I was referring to Scheduled Departure preconditioning. If Mrs U knows she's leaving the house at 5pm (for example) then she'll schedule preconditioning in the Tesla app and then basically forgets to turn it off again, much to my daily annoyance. Thanks for confirming it's not possible though.

It's better to tap the clock on the climate tile to schedule one time preconditioning.

Genuinely, that little feature had entirely passed me by!

I'm guessing that is when you want the climate/precondition to start though, rather than setting a ready-by preconditioning, which is what the Tesla app claims it gives you ? For example, if she was leaving at 5pm, using the Tesla app she would have set 5pm as a departure time, whereas in Tessie's one-time preconditioning she would have to manually adjust that to some time before 5pm ?

 

[James@Tessie]

Is there a way to auto-tag drives? I would like to auto-tag work commutes so I can see total mileage for tax purposes at the end of the year.

Everything is already auto-tagged by location, e.g. from home to work or any other combination. You can tap the filter icon to access those.

 

[James@Tessie]

Thanks James, yes I was referring to Scheduled Departure preconditioning. If Mrs U knows she's leaving the house at 5pm (for example) then she'll schedule preconditioning in the Tesla app and then basically forgets to turn it off again, much to my daily annoyance. Thanks for confirming it's not possible though.



Genuinely, that little feature had entirely passed me by!

I'm guessing that is when you want the climate/precondition to start though, rather than setting a ready-by preconditioning, which is what the Tesla app claims it gives you ? For example, if she was leaving at 5pm, using the Tesla app she would have set 5pm as a departure time, whereas in Tessie's one-time preconditioning she would have to manually adjust that to some time before 5pm ?

Preconditioning takes about 30 minutes, so you set a 4:30pm start instead of a 5pm end.

 

[ngng]

Everything is already auto-tagged by location, e.g. from home to work or any other combination. You can tap the filter icon to access those.

Is it possible to see a distance summary or do I need to export the CSV? Is it possible to increase the tag diameter of the tag location? I'm getting different tags between my parking spot and my charger.

 

[James@Tessie]

Is it possible to see a distance summary or do I need to export the CSV? Is it possible to increase the tag diameter of the tag location? I'm getting different tags between my parking spot and my charger.

Drives > Analytics > Distance. You can change the diameter in Saved Locations.

 

[ngng]

Drives > Analytics > Distance. You can change the diameter in Saved Locations.

Thanks!

 

[Baluchi]

James, I really like the "range ring" we can view on the map in Tessie. I think to maximize its usefulness, there'd be a way to overlay charging stations too--then we could see all the chargers that are within range of the car. I'm not sure if an app like PlugShare allows you to use their charger data, but that would be awesome. Not sure about the feasibility of that, but thought I'd make the recommendation.

 

[James@Tessie]

James, I really like the "range ring" we can view on the map in Tessie. I think to maximize its usefulness, there'd be a way to overlay charging stations too--then we could see all the chargers that are within range of the car. I'm not sure if an app like PlugShare allows you to use their charger data, but that would be awesome. Not sure about the feasibility of that, but thought I'd make the recommendation.

Yeah, could be great. On my radar.

 

[WrldDriftR]

Hello and happy holidays! Forgive me if I’m missing it, but is there any way to have the app check average fuel costs in my state/area and dynamically update based on desired grade?

 

[James@Tessie]

Hello and happy holidays! Forgive me if I’m missing it, but is there any way to have the app check average fuel costs in my state/area and dynamically update based on desired grade?

There's not. Would be great though. Surprisingly, local fuel prices aren't really tracked by anything other than crowd sourced websites like GasBuddy so there's no great source to pull the costs from.

 

[Mullermn]

There's not. Would be great though. Surprisingly, local fuel prices aren't really tracked by anything other than crowd sourced websites like GasBuddy so there's no great source to pull the costs from.

On a related topic, when we provide fuel prices does that update the fuel price used for the lifetime calculation for fuel costs or is a history preserved?

Fuel prices are up and down quite a bit at the moment and I was wondering whether changing the setting for today also messes up the calculation for previous drives. Thanks

 

[WrldDriftR]

There's not. Would be great though. Surprisingly, local fuel prices aren't really tracked by anything other than crowd sourced websites like GasBuddy so there's no great source to pull the costs from.

Thank you for the update! Do you know where Tesla sources it’s fuel price data from?

 

[James@Tessie]

Thank you for the update! Do you know where Tesla sources it’s fuel price data from?

The US federal government tracks state averages.

 

[WrldDriftR]

The US federal government tracks state averages.

Thanks! Happy holidays!

 

[James@Tessie]

On a related topic, when we provide fuel prices does that update the fuel price used for the lifetime calculation for fuel costs or is a history preserved?

Fuel prices are up and down quite a bit at the moment and I was wondering whether changing the setting for today also messes up the calculation for previous drives. Thanks

Fuel comparisons always use your real-time settings. You won't mess anything up.