Tesla Premium Connectivity - Is it really wort it ?

[Scotland41]

My S has Premium free for life but connectivity has gone since yesterday and other forum posts indicate there is a UK tech problem and Tesla are looking into it. No Spotify and no TuneIn yet the maps work.
I don't have DAB radio so TuneIn gets me any radio station.
Lifetime free Spotify is amazing.
So yes, when it works it's wort (sic) it!

 

[khyros]

IMO totally worthless.

I added it after almost a year without in advance of a road trip to Scotland, just to avoid having to link my phone hotspot every time and have the traffic colours on the map.

Result: the maps were incredibly slow to load and I had to revert to my hotspot. Apple Music was incredibly slow and buggy.

Tesla support refused to refund blaming EE, I actually had to charge them back via Amex. Shockingly poor service for an incredibly poor product.

Also, if you care about sound quality, it is better to stream Spotify from a recent phone via BT than using the built in app.

maybe that's the issue - my connectivity runs on the O2 network and is almost spotless, except in very specific cases

 

[khyros]

My S has Premium free for life but connectivity has gone since yesterday and other forum posts indicate there is a UK tech problem and Tesla are looking into it. No Spotify and no TuneIn yet the maps work.
I don't have DAB radio so TuneIn gets me any radio station.
Lifetime free Spotify is amazing.
So yes, when it works it's wort (sic) it!

issue with TuneIn is that with each passing year they have fewer and fewer stations. BBC announces they will soon come off air on tunein radio when you listen to them on that platform. it's a shame but I'm not sure who's at fault here

 

[Zilla91]

issue with TuneIn is that with each passing year they have fewer and fewer stations. BBC announces they will soon come off air on tunein radio when you listen to them on that platform. it's a shame but I'm not sure who's at fault here

Tesla's. If they had an apple podcast app you wouldn't have to use TuneIn, which is a big pile of

 

[Scotland41]

issue with TuneIn is that with each passing year they have fewer and fewer stations. BBC announces they will soon come off air on tunein radio when you listen to them on that platform. it's a shame but I'm not sure who's at fault here

That's disappointing news about BBC leaving Tunein. I will have to use BBC Sounds on my mobile and Bluetooth it over. My LTE came back yesterday after several days down but no car software update so not sure if it was a car issue or Network. The SIM holder has EE on the label. The Internet browser on my MCU1 with LTE takes so long to load it is of no use really. Just glad the LTE came back as the car is out of warranty.

 

[yessuz]

I just wonder, why you use BBC via tuneIn and not via DAB?!

 

[Scotland41]

I just wonder, why you use BBC via tuneIn and not via DAB?!

Yes, it's an older S and sadly doesn't have DAB, only FM/AM so Tunein is very useful. I've no idea if an upgrade is possible but it's likely too expensive. I'm currently saving up for pyro fuse upgrade.

 

[yessuz]

Yes, it's an older S and sadly doesn't have DAB, only FM/AM so Tunein is very useful. I've no idea if an upgrade is possible but it's likely too expensive. I'm currently saving up for pyro fuse upgrade.

ah, yes, that makes sense then.

it is mind blowing that Model S came without DAB... :/

 

[GeorgeSymonds]

There's also a few that updated to MCU2 and lost DAB (and FM) functionality when they did so, although it became an option later on to include it. I think we're fairly unusual to use DAB in the UK.

 

[Scotland41]

BBC withdrawal was targeted for Sept 2019 but my Tunein still works on most BBC channels. I noticed when football matches are on 5 Live it stops broadcasting which suits me!
There's a petition on Change.org which has nearly 15k signatures:

Sign the Petition

Restore BBC radio streams to TuneIn

chng.it

 

[Scotland41]

Correction, I said my SIM adaptor had EE on the label, it actually says EU. The print is smudged.