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Tesla and MyQ

Pretty much every day when I pull out of the garage, it will show a "close" button for a few seconds, then go away (maybe due to switching from Wifi to LTE?), and /or the app will show an error for about 10 seconds. If there is no error, and I press the garage door drop down (with no button showing). The opener will blink then close the door like I was using the phone app. If I wait a few seconds instead, the "close" button comes back, I can press it, and the door closes immediately. I have just learned to wait 5-10 seconds after I pull out for the button to show again.
I‘ve seen similar behavior lately - specifically the error for a few seconds, and then the beeping/flashing when it closes. I just switched my Wi-Fi to remain connected in Drive mode (after confirming the WiFi reaches to just outside the garage), so I’m going to try that to see if it helps with the error message and subsequent beeping/flashing.
 

avs007

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It is definitely a possibility that car switching from Wi-Fi to LTE is screwing with the MyQ integration
I actually used to have this problem all the time on my phone... It got to the point, that I normally had to make sure I turned off wifi before trying to use the MyQ app from the garage, becuase frequently a timed-out operation would cause the whole thing to go non-responsive as the state would get messed up when it finally switched to/from WiFi/LTE.
 
No on the trying it yet, but this should not be a problem as the sensor knows the state of the door and will not redo the open command if the door is already opened and vice versa. It is not a toggle back and forth system. Open is open and closed is closed which can only be executed when the door is in the opposite position.

What Tesla really needs to implement when they add back park assist with the vision only system, is to unfold the mirrors again once you clear the garage. I love the auto fold mirrors as you pull into the driveway as my garage is so tight, however on the way out, I have to manually unfold them to have proper use of the mirrors while backing out the rest of the driveway. Since the rear view mirror is so useless, that is just a bit of a hassle. Starting to simply use the backup camera, which maybe I will ultimately just become super comfortable with. Right now I just rally miss the USS functions when pulling in. To be honest, the Model Y should have come with an electronic rear view mirror. You can get these things for $130 now and it would have probably cost tesla $50 a car or less to include.
There is a way to do this. I don’t recall exactly, but once the vehicle recognizes that it’s home it would unfold the mirrors after reversing into my garage. I’ve since lost the feature and nobody at Tesla has been helpful. But, for the first year with my MY when I would reverse in the mirrors would auto fold and after I would close the drivers door once in the garage they would fold out again. It was great. Since many updates ago it hadn’t done that.
 
I‘ve seen similar behavior lately - specifically the error for a few seconds, and then the beeping/flashing when it closes. I just switched my Wi-Fi to remain connected in Drive mode (after confirming the WiFi reaches to just outside the garage), so I’m going to try that to see if it helps with the error message and subsequent beeping/flashing.
Just to follow up - I hate to jinx it, but three days in a row this has been working for me. I have wifi now set to remain connected in Drive mode, so I pull the car just outside the garage, tap the "close" button, and the door immediately closes without any flashing/beeping drama. And I haven't seen the error message since then either. So based on some limited data here, it seems like (at least for me) the transition from wifi to LTE is potentially causing the earlier problem.

Also, I back into the garage in order to make charging convenient - so when I leave, I'm in Drive rather than Reverse. Not sure that makes a difference for the wifi "remain connected in Drive" setting, but I thought I'd at least mention it just in case...
 
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A couple of things I’ve noticed.

MyQ used to close the door the same way it closes when you use the mobile app, it would flash multiple times then lower the door (after several seconds).

They must have updated something on the back end because now when it initiates closing it just does it immediately, which is an improvement… works more like HomeLink in that regard.

I also noticed when getting into the car today that it showed connected briefly to MyQ with proper door state but then when Easy Entry activated on the car the account went into the error state where it goes red and says account problem.

I suspect that switching to Easy Entry is messing with the state temporarily. I turned it off and will update the thread if I either continue to see the periodic problem where it shows an account error or if the issue is resolved by disabling this feature.
 
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