P85D Possessed? Car listening to Slacker by itself... (probably a bug)

[electrish]

I rarely pause Slacker and usually just walk away from the car. I have noticed that sometimes a completely different song is playing when I get back into the car, compared with what was on when I left. Mostly happens over night, so I thought it may be related to my habit of preheating the car in the morning and that this would somehow start up Slacker.

 

[wk057]

From Tesla:

We were able to identify the issue using your data and logs pulled from your Model S. Thanks for the help in bringing this to our attention. We will identify the bug and fix it in a future firmware release.

 

[wk057]

Posted in the firmware thread. Bug not fixed in .115.

Well, I can confirm that .115 does NOT fix the Slacker-while-asleep bug.

In this middle of the night the P85 with .115 started pulling Slacker songs again. The P85D already was, and combined the two used ~600MB of bandwidth overnight. (WiFi)

 

[scottm]

Uhh.. I pay for bandwidth on my wifi at home and I don't want the car eating it all.

What's the best work around to put in place until fixed in firmware?

 

[wk057]

Uhh.. I pay for bandwidth on my wifi at home and I don't want the car eating it all.

What's the best work around to put in place until fixed in firmware?

Disabling WiFi seems to be the only option that would work, pushing the burden back on to Tesla and AT&T.

 

[scottm]

WiFi off.. will do.

I guess I could block the Tesla's IP on the home wifi router... but in car is easier.

If everyone does this, Tesla will push the patch for leaky Slacker out quicker, I bet.

 

[CliffG]

Uhh.. I pay for bandwidth on my wifi at home and I don't want the car eating it all.

What's the best work around to put in place until fixed in firmware?

switch media player to radio and pause it?

 

[wk057]

WiFi off.. will do.

I guess I could block the Tesla's IP on the home wifi router... but in car is easier.

If everyone does this, Tesla will push the patch for leaky Slacker out quicker, I bet.

Keep in mind just switching WiFi off in the car will only do so until the next start. You'll have to forget your access point to stop it from connecting.

 

[SeminoleFSU]

I realize this won't help light a 'fire' under Tesla's software guys, but if you don't want to chew up your home data or Tesla's data, you could just change the source to FM, AM, XM, etc before exiting.

 

[scottm]

Right just realized wifi shutoff is a repeat everytime procedure, when parking.

I will do as suggested and nix the wifi definition in the car.

Cant understand why I'd ever need to use my wifi in my garage, when 3G works fine in there too. So why wifi ever, really? Off with its head!!

 

[ElectricFarmBoy]

I have seen the same thing with tunein. Leave listening to one podcast, come back the next day and it's on another 3 episodes down. Glad that it seems Tesla's engineering believes.

 

[wk057]

Sorry for cross-posting, but relevant here and there:

I heard back today from the Tesla engineer I've been emailing about the Slacker bug.

Working on a fix in the next firmware release (or the next one)

 

[wk057]

Noting for completeness: .116 does not address the slacker bug. Waiting (im)patiently for .139 to check that one.

 

[rainman50]

I have a song paused when I leave the car and if I precondition the car when I get in it is playing songs. This seems to coincide with the last update.

(On a side note. Today Wednesday 4th. I can't connect to my car to precondition it. It is 4:30 now (EST) It says waking car but never connects. Probably a fluke.)

 

[Lloyd]

Those flukes get into everything !!!

 

[rainman50]

Those flukes get into everything !!!

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That's a nice looking fluke.

The reason that the car would not connect was that the 3G seeming was not being received. It just showed WIFI and it was not working as well. . After I reboot it the 3G came back with a strong signal. It has not happened ever since.
Even with a few of these quirks (flukes), I love the car.

 

[redox]

The usage is actually not insignificant. On my (wifi) network, Model S uses around 300 Mbytes of download bandwidth and 6 Mbytes of upload bandwidth a DAY.