Hey Folks,
I'm finally back in town (for a whole week) and am catching up a bit. The way the forum works, it will merge all posts that I make within a single 30 minute period, so my responses will likely be bunched together.
Joe
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First off, kudos to jpasqua for developing this excellent app. Been using it for several weeks and absolutely loving it. I am on 0.27.01 with no issues. Had a bit of a challenge initially as I didn’t realize my laptop was going to sleep mode and my trips were always partially logged. That was easily taken care of.
I did notice a weirdness in the mapping of the trips (see below). The Snap To Road option every now and then plots a route that circuitous to the actual route taken. Looks like it snapped to the wrong road. Not sure if this had been called out before or if it’s more of an issue with the mapping software.
Without Snap To Road:
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With Snap To Road:
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Hello eujinc,
I logged a
bug report about this in github a while back. This is an artifact of the way I implemented the
"Snap to Road" feature combined with the resolution of the GPS readings. Honestly, I don't have a good idea of how to fix it at the moment. I've got some bad ideas, but not any good ones yet.
For those that care, here are more of the details. VisibleTesla has a set of latitude / longitude points that describe the path that your car traveled. Let's say we start at point A, and then travel to points B, C, and D. When you're not in "Snap to Road" mode, I just draw a straight line from point A to point B, point B to point C, and point C to point D. In order to follow the roadway, I need to figure out the path of the roadway between point A and point B. I do that by asking Google Maps for the directions between A and B (it's a little more complicated than that, but this is close enough to illustrate the problem). Let's say point B happens to be very near an offramp on a highway and given the (in)accuracy of the GPS readings, it looks like you're on the offramp when in fact you're in the right lane. The directions that Google gives back to VisibleTesla will show you getting off the highway, looping around, and getting on somewhere else to get to point B. There are a number of circumstances like this that can cause weird "excursions" in the trip.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough information (or accurate enough information) to avoid this in all circumstances. I do have some ideas for how I might do better than I am doing right now, but I've deferred this bug for the moment.
Joe
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As an engineer, I should have rebooted the drivers console and tested. If it didn't fix the issue, then reboot the center console. Try that approach. Should help figure out where in the problem may lie. Definitely in my case a software update broke the communications.
SigS905: I'm glad you got to the root of the problem and thanks for sharing with others.
@Sig,
I am also experiencing graph data issues. I can see the car move on the location screen, but the graph is no longer accurately logging trips. Only SOC and Rated range.
Muzzman1: It sounds like you're seeing the car move on the Location tab but not seeing speed or power data on the Graphs tab. Is that correct? If you wouldn't mind sending me your log file corresponding to the time period of the problem. I will see if I can tell what's going on. You can read about where to find the log file in the
troubleshooting section of the FAQ.
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Yesterday, the first 5 RHD cars were delivered in the UK.
Is there anything in VT which would need changing to support RHD cars please?
The answer is that there may be some changes required, but it should just work with the exception of the car images showing the steering wheel on the wrong side.
If you're an owner, I'd love to get your feedback on what works and what doesn't. I have no way of testing it myself since I don't have access to a UK model car.
I'd also like to know if the Tesla app for iPhone or Android has been updated for the UK market to show the correct visuals (steering wheel on the correct side).
Joe
