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Phone App: Android Beta Version introduced!
- Thread starter gg_got_a_tesla
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I beg to differ. I've been using it since November and I find the app quite useful. You can track the car while it's moving, you can preheat/precool the interior, you can track charging and change charging modes, and have various location capabilities to find where you left your car. It's been quite valuable to me.
Jgdixon
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Well if your car is outside you could have the front defroster on when you get out if the car. Then when you remotely turn on climate control you would start the defrost mode.
I can't speak for michiganmodels, but I was referring to BlueStack as the problem child -- not the Tesla app.
I've found the same - it quickly goes to set temp with the temp sensor up pretty high. The cabin air feels hot while the seats and the remainder of the cabin feel cold. Nothing you can do about that, because temps don't have time to stabilize.
Ahh. Well, since the Android app was intended for a phone and not an emulator, I suppose I looked past that.
Yeah. It's sorta like complaining that your screwdriver isn't working all that well as a pry bar.
Yeah, they could have simply updated the "My Tesla" page on their website with this functionality. Works for everyone that way. It'll surely happen one day. In any case, the mobile apps are great!
A web app would have been even better. The functional part of the app is clearly server based. I think mobile development is great, but this my new pet peeve. Mobile developers seem less likely to separate business logic from presentation stuff. Supporting a new platform always involves "porting".
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It would also be convenient for "Tesla family" events. You could warm up your car from another Model S.
I suppose. But, IMO, the current browser in the car is frankly a POS; about the only thing in the car that I'm embarrassed to show off. Sorry; OT.
Just make the page small enough that there's no need to pan/zoom and it'll be fine.
Android Tesla Model S Beta app available
Just downloaded, installed and am talking to my car.
Checked all functions and they work.
Controls - Vent Roof, lock/unlock, honk horn, flash lights
Charge - Standard/Max Range
Climate - Pretemp car
Location - phone/car locations on Google maps
The display of the wheels has an overlay glitch. See the wheel with an overflay larger than and offset from the wheels.
Have been testing the remote locking function in my garage. If the app has the car unlocked, anyone can approach the car and open the handles until the app locks the car! Be forewarned.
Just downloaded, installed and am talking to my car.
Checked all functions and they work.
Controls - Vent Roof, lock/unlock, honk horn, flash lights
Charge - Standard/Max Range
Climate - Pretemp car
Location - phone/car locations on Google maps
The display of the wheels has an overlay glitch. See the wheel with an overflay larger than and offset from the wheels.
Have been testing the remote locking function in my garage. If the app has the car unlocked, anyone can approach the car and open the handles until the app locks the car! Be forewarned.
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Tesla Model S mobile phone app Beta released
I am waiting till midnight to see if the iPhone app becomes available.
I am waiting till midnight to see if the iPhone app becomes available.
araxara
X-LR M3AWD, MYLR
It would be nice if the mobile app had a notification feature where it would send you a notice when charging stopped or other events such as temperature having been reached, door opened, etc. For an app that has been in beta testing for so long, it's not very complete.
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