I tried searching but the question is kind of weird so I didn't get much of anywhere. How does VisibleTesla determine how often to capture location data? I left it running on the Location tab today, and at the beginning of my first trip the points were very close together. Then as the day wheres on, you can see the points getting further apart in time. I wasn't home, so I didn't change tabs or anything, and the route was essentially round-trip so it doesn't seem to be speed-dependant.
Any ideas?
Hi Gizmotoy,
There is a bit about this in the documentation here:
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VisibleTesla collects information in a couple of different places and at a couple of different rates depending on the situation. Unless the app is asleep, it will collect location and other data every two minutes. If it notices that your car is in motion when it collects data, it will increase the refresh rate to once every 30 seconds.
If you're on the location tab it collects location information every 30 seconds. If it notices that your car is moving, it will go into "streaming" mode if possible. In that mode it collects data even more frequently.
Joe
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Should the developer read this thread...
May I kindly ask you to also add a "sound notification" so that my speakers can alert me when I am not in front of my computer (to read the notification mail) ?
As I am currently encountering sporadic charging problems, I would appreciate to get alerted when my car is no more charging up :'(
This would be very useful when this problem occurs while sleeping...
Hello xav1976,
I am the developer and I have a suggestion for you. Many mobile phone carriers have an email-to-sms gateway service. For example, customers using AT&T in the US can have email messages routed to their phone by sending to
[email protected] where 1234567890 is their mobile phone number. If you specify such an address as the email address for notifications, you can have your phone ring or buzz you when a notification occurs.
Joe
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Interesting. Just upgraded to 0.25.04, and when re-launching got this (several times):
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Odd... never have had that happen before... I guess I'll go try and wake it up and see what's going on...
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UPDATE: I tried waking it from my Android mobile Tesla App, and it woke just fine... then VT was able to see it.
Hi scaesare,
When VT starts up the first thing it does is log in. That process doesn't require communicating with your car. Once it finishes logging in, it tries to collect some basic information from the car. If your car is asleep, it will try waking it repeatedly and then will ultimately give up if it can't connect.
Do you happen to have the visibletesla.log handy from the failed session?
Joe
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I really appreciate the new versions of this app, particularly the [MapIt] function with graphs showing the trip profile and the ability to schedule activities.
However, the one thing I can no longer do is export stats or location data. It all shows up in the trips and graphs tabs, but whenever I try to export it all I get is silence.
Anyone else having this problem?
Hi Berkut,
A couple of questions.
First, can you elaborate on "whenever I try to export it all I get is silence"? When you choose "File->Export Stats Data..." does it show you the dialog that asks you to choose a location and file name? If so, does it then show you the dialog to select a date range? I'm trying to determine where exactly in the process it is stopping.
Are you on Windows, Mac, or Linux?
What version of VisibleTesla?
Thanks,
Joe
