I am a new user of Teslafi. So far it appears to be working as designed; however, I am noticing that with sleep mode enabled, my vehicle seems to have 'insomnia'.
On the car, save energy mode is enabled, always connected toggled off, cabin overheat protection is toggled off. On Teslafi settings, sleep mode is enabled with the default polling time (1 min), time to try sleeping time (15 min), idle time before trying to sleep (30 min); and 'no outside temperature reading' and 'no inside temperature reading' are both unchecked. Also on Teslafi settings, scheduled nighttime sleep mode and deep sleep mode are both unchecked. I do want text messages for sleep alerts so that is checked.
Immediately before I signed up for Teslafi I changed my Tesla password. I don't use other apps that ping the car, but just to be sure, I started from a clean slate. Also, yesterday mid-day I received the 50.3 update. That was already installed when you read the rest of the story - so any insomnia is unlikely to be related to a new software download).
Given the above settings, the system seems to work. I can see the 30 min pause and then Teslafi starts the 15 min of no pinging the car to allow the car to go to sleep. However, many times the car will not go to sleep. The 30 min of pings then start again and at min 30 the 15 min of silence starts. However, again, the car will not go to sleep after 15 min.
Eventually, however, it will sleep. Last night for example, my car was idling from 7:12 pm to 1:53 am with no user intervention - - that's over 6.5 hours. During that time, Teslafi continually tried to get it to sleep, as designed. Finally, at 2:08 am, she went to sleep, and slept until 6:36 am when I woke her up.
I drove the 13 minutes to the gym and parked and stayed there for 1 hour 10 min. No sleep - but the 'battery heater' icon was lit in Teslafi. OK. I get that (well, what I get to be more precise is that the car will not sleep if the battery heater is on, but I parked and locked the car and entered the gym and the heater stayed on - which I guess is by design - - it is quite cold outside - - see below).
I then drove 19 minutes to work and parked. The car is now on idle. I have been here 1 hour 45 min. There is no battery heater lit in Teslafi (and in fact the raw data shows battery heater on = false).
So why wont she sleep right now?
It was 10 degrees F this morning and is now 18 degrees F. But battery heater is off. I am not understanding why she is not sleeping, or why it took her 6 hours to go to sleep last night (no battery heater last night either).
Is this normal or is it due to the cold weather (even if battery heater shows it is off)? I think I am doing everything correctly with Teslafi for the sleep modes but I need to rule that out I guess. But how can I check sleep cycles without Teslafi or any other app that pings the car every minute to see if its sleeping?
Thanks for any insight as I learn more about Teslafi and the behavior of my car.
Adam
On the car, save energy mode is enabled, always connected toggled off, cabin overheat protection is toggled off. On Teslafi settings, sleep mode is enabled with the default polling time (1 min), time to try sleeping time (15 min), idle time before trying to sleep (30 min); and 'no outside temperature reading' and 'no inside temperature reading' are both unchecked. Also on Teslafi settings, scheduled nighttime sleep mode and deep sleep mode are both unchecked. I do want text messages for sleep alerts so that is checked.
Immediately before I signed up for Teslafi I changed my Tesla password. I don't use other apps that ping the car, but just to be sure, I started from a clean slate. Also, yesterday mid-day I received the 50.3 update. That was already installed when you read the rest of the story - so any insomnia is unlikely to be related to a new software download).
Given the above settings, the system seems to work. I can see the 30 min pause and then Teslafi starts the 15 min of no pinging the car to allow the car to go to sleep. However, many times the car will not go to sleep. The 30 min of pings then start again and at min 30 the 15 min of silence starts. However, again, the car will not go to sleep after 15 min.
Eventually, however, it will sleep. Last night for example, my car was idling from 7:12 pm to 1:53 am with no user intervention - - that's over 6.5 hours. During that time, Teslafi continually tried to get it to sleep, as designed. Finally, at 2:08 am, she went to sleep, and slept until 6:36 am when I woke her up.
I drove the 13 minutes to the gym and parked and stayed there for 1 hour 10 min. No sleep - but the 'battery heater' icon was lit in Teslafi. OK. I get that (well, what I get to be more precise is that the car will not sleep if the battery heater is on, but I parked and locked the car and entered the gym and the heater stayed on - which I guess is by design - - it is quite cold outside - - see below).
I then drove 19 minutes to work and parked. The car is now on idle. I have been here 1 hour 45 min. There is no battery heater lit in Teslafi (and in fact the raw data shows battery heater on = false).
So why wont she sleep right now?
It was 10 degrees F this morning and is now 18 degrees F. But battery heater is off. I am not understanding why she is not sleeping, or why it took her 6 hours to go to sleep last night (no battery heater last night either).
Is this normal or is it due to the cold weather (even if battery heater shows it is off)? I think I am doing everything correctly with Teslafi for the sleep modes but I need to rule that out I guess. But how can I check sleep cycles without Teslafi or any other app that pings the car every minute to see if its sleeping?
Thanks for any insight as I learn more about Teslafi and the behavior of my car.
Adam
