Phone App: iPhone/Android app

[miemrich]

today we left the dog in the car and turned Climate on in our restaurant to cool the car in Florida. Everything worked well. When I checked again approx. half an hour later, the Climate had turned off and the car got hotter. I could turn Climate on again and restarted cooling but I wonder if there is a time limit after which Climate Control is turned off automatically by the car. Anyone?

 

[Doug_G]

today we left the dog in the car and turned Climate on in our restaurant to cool the car in Florida. Everything worked well. When I checked again approx. half an hour later, the Climate had turned off and the car got hotter. I could turn Climate on again and restarted cooling but I wonder if there is a time limit after which Climate Control is turned off automatically by the car. Anyone?

It appears to switch the climate control off after an hour, as far as I can tell.

 

[gsxrex]

For those of you with Key Lime Pie (Android 4.2), do you have problems? I saw the app running on a Nexus phone with Key Lime Pie today, and things were pretty screwed up with it -- stuff I haven't seen on my Galaxy S3 w/ Jelly Bean (4.1).

Just so we're all on the same page, Android 4.2 is still JellyBean. 5.0 will be KeyLimePie.

 

[FlasherZ]

Just so we're all on the same page, Android 4.2 is still JellyBean. 5.0 will be KeyLimePie.

I stand corrected.

 

[Doug_G]

Ran into a little bug yesterday. I could dial the cabin temperature UP but not DOWN. Tried it a few different times, same result.

Funny, it used to work before my service visit...

 

[jomo25]

No offense, but who's brilliant idea was it to have one thread for both the iOS and Android apps?

 

[dsm363]

The mods discussed it and decided that since both apps are being developed and released in parallel that it makes sense to have one thread. That way things like 'why doesn't app do this or that' don't need to be cross posted.

 

[znino]

Ran into a little bug yesterday. I could dial the cabin temperature UP but not DOWN. Tried it a few different times, same result.

Funny, it used to work before my service visit...

Doug, I have had this bug since day 1 of the iPhone app and so have others. Are your settings on the car in celsius degrees? If so, try changing to Fahrenheit and you will see that you will suddenly be able to dial DOWN the temperature. Guess they didn't do that much testing in metric It has already been reported to Tesla.

 

[markwj]

Any push notifications would be nice like: Temp reached above or below xx in cabin, or alarm went off if set.

Strange that this is missing. Notifications are one of the most asked for, and loved, features of OVMS. Particularly charge-interrupted notifications.

 

[aviators99]

App feature request: notification if the car is at home and not plugged in at a certain time.

We drove around yesterday and returned home, but I didn't plug in as we were planning on going out for dinner. Plans changed and we stayed home, so the car never got plugged in. No big deal, but it would have been nice to be notified by my phone.

I've got lots of notifications working (using things like cron/shell/awk/python) using the API descibed in the other thread.

 

[aviators99]

I've got lots of notifications working (using things like cron/shell/awk/python) using the API descibed in the other thread.

I posted a script to alert you if the car is not plugged in over in the REST thread.

 

[dave]

Anyone else running this on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus?

The app will only run once for me. Subsequent attempts just result in the spinning icon until I manually force the app closed and then restart.

My wife has it installed on her iPhone (and iPad) and it is much quicker to respond. The GPS location and speed actually update every second or so. The GPS location on my Nexus only updates every 10 seconds or so, and there is a much bigger delay switching between climate / charging / location screens.

 

[FlasherZ]

Anyone else running this on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus?

I think I observed the problems you mention on another person's phone as well during our meet-up on Saturday. Please send bug reports to [email protected], and they'll forward to the development team.

 

[Zas]

Anyone else running this on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus?

The app will only run once for me. Subsequent attempts just result in the spinning icon until I manually force the app closed and then restart.

i have Galaxy Nexus .. and this happens to me as well.. but not 'every time'... but i need to force close ( kill ) once for every 3-4 attempts to get it to work...

 

[ClearwaterBchSteve]

iPhone App (on 4S iOS6) works great for me so far. Have not played much with climate controls, but everything else has given me no problems. When I first downloaded the app, I was accross the country. The Model S was in the garage back home and I beeped the horn to surprise the wife while I was eating breakfast at a Denny's. Ok... not a very useful function, but cool nonetheless.

 

[EdA]

...while I was eating breakfast at a Denny's...

This is the part which is troubling to me...

 

[ClearwaterBchSteve]

...while I was eating breakfast at a Denny's...

This is the part which is troubling to me...

I was on a business trip and options were limited at the time

 

[nleggatt]

Does accessing the car via the app reduce range? My car has lost 3km in the last hour while outside in 7 degree Celsius weather

 

[dsm363]

Does accessing the car via the app reduce range? My car has lost 3km in the last hour while outside in 7 degree Celsius weather

That likely had more to do with the car trying to keep battery warm than you checking it with the app (unless you turned cabin heating on).

 

[nleggatt]

Would be a nice feature to have the car tell us when power is being used for battery warming... Or I should just relax right