There was a 3 month period where voice commands could tune a specific station (e.g., “play one oh five point nine”) but, when that suddenly stopped working, Tesla claimed it had never been implemented and was something on the distant horizon. Guess I had a bug or a test version.
Since then, I’ve discovered the following voice commands work every time (except when there are connectivity issues since they haven’t yet made the processing an onboard function - pretty unsafe for a screen-centric vehicle to not have offline voice commands):
“Radio” - changes source to radio (don’t know about vehicles with AM & FM).
“Source to Bluetooth” - changes source to BT (not sure why that one needs extra words).
“On TuneIn” - changes source to TuneIn but there’s no voice command to select a channel so it’ll load last accessed.
“Play [y] (station/music)” - changes source to LiveOne music platform and plays either a specific song (or artist, if you’ve already heard that song recently) or, with one of the parenthetical words, a specific station or music by (or similar to) that artist. An example of the latter is that “play Paul Simon” or “play Paul Simon station/radio” didn’t work but “play Paul Simon music” brought up the curated Paul Simon “Radio” station with 60% Simon and 30% similar artists.
I haven’t found the perfect command for playing my USB media but I don’t use it often. Similarly, I don’t use Spotify or other streaming services so haven’t tested commands for those.
On side observation not related to voice commands: if you use the left scroll wheel to back up or skip ahead during Bluetooth listening, a random number of pushes in quick succession will cause the system to switch to radio and start moving through the frequencies (used to be favorites but they broke that). Strangely, the Bluetooth media will keep playing rather than pause when the source changes.