MarcG
Active Member
I believe that's a reference to the possible throttling that Tesla could implement. If they were to do that, based on your VT usage, your use of their app would also be affected. I don't believe this has been an issue for anyone in quite some time. Just be reasonable with how you set up VT, and don't have it report back every second or something.
Yeah I've been running VT for over a year now and have never been throttled by Tesla. I do have it set to allow the car to "sleep" at night, which means VT only polls the API every 30 minutes or so. When the car is idle but not sleeping, the polling interval is around 4 minutes. Neither of these are editable from the user interface (you'd have to change the code and recompile).
Also, you can't set the polling interval to less than 5 seconds when the car is driving, but Tesla is collecting that data anyway so it's not like you're adding excess strain on their servers: