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S3XY Knob Deliveries
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My fave feature is being able to pop open any of the doors, really handy when collecting people unfamiliar with Tesla door handles, especially in the dark, no more finger prints all over my doors!
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Well, a few observations now that I've been using my knob for a couple of weeks:
Installation
Installation was very easy. No real issues. It went smoothly and just worked.
Features
First the positives:
Installation
Installation was very easy. No real issues. It went smoothly and just worked.
Features
First the positives:
- The knob is nicely built and fits very well into the car's interior.
- It works mostly pretty well. There are a few little bugs (e.g. rear vent control doesn't work reliably).
- The UI is nice overall with crisp and easy-to-read icons.
- The commander adds some useful features independent of the knob (e.g. unlock charge port from door handle, dashboard on mobile phone).
- Lack of sync between the knob and the tesla UI is a real gap and makes temperature and fan control way less useful than they should be. They say they'll fix this, but until they do the experience is much diminished.
- Lack of lighting around the buttons makes use at night time somewhat awkward.
- Limitations of what can be done on the knob vs the buttons is surprising and unexpected. In general, the list of actions on the knob is quite narrow.
Got the new release. They've fixed the temperature sync, but only via a circular route via the Tesla mothership and adding the Enhauto app as (another) linked app to my Tesla account. I assume what's happening is this:
: Knob => commander => Enhauto phone app => phone 4G connection => Tesla server => car 4G/LTE connection => car MCU => temp control
That's a lot of hoops to jump through and I assume it will stop working if either the phone or the car go off-line (which happens pretty often). Strangely, while temp sync now works this way, fan speed control doesn't (so there's still no correlation between the actual fan speed and what's displayed on the car's screen). Wiper control though works fine in terms of knob/car display sync without the round-robin trip. Weird.
I appreciate they are trying to work around constraints imposted by Tesla's code and architecture, but I guess that's what the world's like when you're making 3rd party add-ons to an officially closed platform.
There are also no new additional actions I can see on the knob configuration.
So, the update is certainly a step in the right direction, but still no cigar yet !
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It seems you can access these new features from the buttons or from tiles in the app, but not via the knob. This is a common story - there is a much shorter list of actions available for the knob. I don’t understand why this asymmetry exists - it points to some odd design decisions. They seem a good software dev company so I find this anomaly a bit out of character. They are promising more in future updates for the knob, but it seems they’ve made life hard for themselves, as well as frustrating for their customers with the way it works right now.
Yes, but I generally give them some slack since overall I find the product good. Totally agree with the frustration that available actions seem to take a long time to become available via the knob. But as a longtime user of the commander I am happy that they are continually adding features. It does so many more things than it did when I first bought them for our Tesla.
Why they chose "Knob" as the name.... I prefer to refer to it as the Dial.
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