I suspect somebody at Tesla made the decision for you and it was not “automatic”
Yes, I'm sure of that too. When I went to the first Falcon Heavy launch last year, the TMC member who sold me his extra 'Feel the Heat' ticket (p.s. THANK YOU!!).. he used to work at Tesla in the (I think) small modules area -- door handles, switches, latches, modules, and software, too. He told me that there is one guy there, the 'Firmware Na^H^HKing' who maintains a spreadsheet of everyone who hasn't updated their firmware, and he, and the entire firmware group really, really, despise people who intentionally refuse the software updates. I guess I got close to the top of the list (in age of last update), and got tired of seeing me reject each update request. Even over LTE.
I wonder if those charge port errors were noticed at Tesla, and that's what triggered the unsolicited autoinstall of v9.
It's possible that's what happened. The charge port errors were about two weeks ago, and only lasted two days before the error cleared itself. But the error seemed like the door sensor was faulty, as it would report the charge port door open when it was not. I've had no other errors or problems.
since its older hardware is currently performing just fine on v8.
Yes, this I'm really annoyed at. V9 on MCU1 has a noticeable lag between actions. This was not the case on V8.1.
but on the dash it says to connect to Wi-Fi,
About a week ago, I did get the 'please connect to wifi for software updates' popup. I cleared it, and then the next popup was the 'you have a software update ready to install' popup. I thought that was funny, and of course, just ignored both.
Maybe unpopular opinion but I’ll state it. I think you are being obstinate.
You are entitled to your opinion.
In Tesla’s eyes they are doing you a favor.
And so is Tesla. But there are better ways to go about it. For instance, send me an email first that says 'if you don't update your deprecated v8.1 software soon, it will happen automatically on X date Y time unless you contact us first to change it.'
What if 8.1 firmware is the one that sends cars into gore points or under semi trucks?
Well, all of those things sound like AP2 problems. Luckily I have AP1 which has been rock solid and relatively unchanged for years. I surely dodged a bullet there.
One of the things that really burns by butt about v9 is the removal of the colors of the icons in the Instrument cluster when changing apps with the thumbwheel. I used to be able to tell by peripheral vision which icon was which just by color (nav=red, audio=blue, energy=orange, trips=black/white, etc), but now they're all a single color and can no longer tell without taking my eyes off the road. So to change apps, I now have to divert my eyes to the IC to figure out which app to load, load it, and then divert my eyes
again to absorb the information displayed by the app (nav, audio, trips, energy, etc).
It's a real safety hazard to force the driver to look away from the road -- and the only reason was a stupid UI decision to REMOVE peripheral cue (color) from the UI. And that's just one example, there are dozens of others in the other V9 threads I won't repeat here.
Hank, you will be ok. I promise
At least give it a try for a week or two before getting too mad.
I know, and I will. Life goes on.
