Hi guys, I'm dropping by to give you updates on what's been going on:
It's been almost 2 months since my surgery and I still have a little over a month more of pain, pain meds and staying near the hospital, followed by another 3 months more before I can walk again. They're weaning me off the pain meds, so I am in more pain than normal. Hopefully I can resume work on this app in less than a month. Thanks for being patient with me and not rushing me to finish version 3.0. I've been taking notes on what to change and what to add for version 3.0, so please don't hesitate to tell me what you wish to change or add to the app.
Thanks for all the care packages that you guys have sent to me while I am in recovery. It means a lot to me, and has kept my morale high even though I'm going through the worst painful experience of my life.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that a patent troll was trying to get Remote S removed from the app store or force me to pay a licensing fee. He wants $2 million upfront and $1 million annually, which is ridiculous, because Remote S makes no where near that much money. He claims that he owns the patent for controlling a car via a watch, but my app is not even close to his patent. I could just remove the Remote S app from the app store to make him go away, but instead I hired a lawyer to help fight the patent troll. The lawyer fees will probably wipe out the revenue that Remote S has accumulated, and it seems like the patent troll knows this and is trying to pressure me into pay the licensing fees. But I love this app too much and you guys love this app enough for me to not want to kill the project. So I'll keep fighting this patent troll, even if it means that I start losing money for keeping this app alive. The good news is that Apple has not removed the app from the App Store even after the patent troll requested that my app be removed from the app store. What's annoying is that he's doing this to me while I'm in the middle of recovery of surgery and is causing me a lot of stress.
On another side note, thanks for all those who donated to my "tip jar", which is a charity that I set up for my former neighbor's daughter's college fund. I want to share the great news that a few days ago, she took the certification exam for being a vet tech and has passed with flying colors. She will be taking a job as a vet tech over the summer to prep her for vet school in 2 years. She just started school again, and she's well on her way to becoming a great veterinarian. This was something that she wouldn't have afforded to do without our help, and it was a great feeling to pay for her textbooks, travel expenses, tuition, and laptop. She keeps refusing to take money from my own pocket, but thanks to the overwhelming amount of donations from you guys, I managed to sneak a few thousands of dollars into the donation as well out of my own pocket. Together, we added over $10,000 to her college fund.
How does one log out of the app?
I've been getting a lot of emails from users asking me this same question, so I'm just going to post the answer here again (since it was buried a few pages back). If you are experiencing persistent issues with sending commands to the Tesla server and have used the app for over 3 months, your access token is probably expired. To get a new one, simply sign off and in the app again. To do so, press the top-left command menu button to bring up the commands. Then press the top-right button that looks like a car with circular arrows around it. Then press "Sign Out". In the next version of the app, I will automatically refresh the access token to prevent this from happening again.
