Why even give us a browser if it doesn’t load/work 80% of the time? In my last 1/2 dozen drives until this morning it’s been a white screen and then randomly this morning it loaded a webpage. It’s more annoying to have it and it not work versus not having it at all. More distracting too since I keep fiddling with it.
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Web Browser Useless
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barjohn
Member
I tried to set it up but even though I had the API key for the first part, it would not accept the user name for the second part even though it was correct. I saw no API key on the geo site.
SomeJoe7777
Marginally-Known Member
See post number 5 in the following thread for how to enable the API on the Geonames.org site:
Tesla Winds and Elevation Web Browser App
barjohn
Member
contaygious
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contaygious
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insaneoctane
Well-Known Member
There is obviously a bug that crashes the browser process and gives the white screen. It will let you type in URLs, but will not render anything. The only fix is to kill the browser process and the only way to do that is to reboot the MCU. Very extreme IMO. So I would love Tesla to fix this quickly, or at least add a restart button that would kill the problematic process and restart the browser. That would be an acceptable work around while they troubleshoot the root issue.
This problem is happening often for me... Making the browser as the title of this thread...
This problem is happening often for me... Making the browser as the title of this thread...
barjohn
Member
Testing in my garage with home wifi and using phone as hot spot I observed the following: Home WiFI performance was excellent with 50+MBs down loads and sites working properly and loading quickly. As soon as I disconnected to connect to my phone hotspot the browser hung requiring a system (Car) reboot to get the browser to work again. Connected it to phone hotspot and it was slower with only 3.5-4 Mbs down load performance. Sites load a bit slower and once again losing connection throws it into a hang on the browser.
josher32
Member
Yeah it works but its SLOW! Just use your cell phone
Seems like the web browser in the car is crap. Slow and hit and miss. Too much rebooting etc. Just easier to use my iPhone
+1 Same issue here. A reboot holding the two buttons on the wheel will fix it for a short while then it returns. Even when it does render pages it's slow (this is tested through a known good Wi-fi spot & mobile data, not speed related, appears to be a browser issue).
israndy
Supercharger Hunter
Loving the new features that a web browser brings to the car, just in time for my trip to Washington.
-Randy
-Randy
CapnOMatic
Member
This is something I am wondering. What do we need a browser in the car for? Why not just search the google maps for locations etc. the browser in the car seems to be a bit of a distraction that might bog down the performance of the computer.
chronopc
Active Member
I like using it when I'm waiting in the car, either to pick someone up or to wait for supercharging. But I am having a lot of issues with it at the moment. It seems to get stuck on a black screen and refuses to load any webpages. This occurs mostly on LTE but also occurs occasionally on wifi.
chronopc
Active Member
It works pretty well when it does work. I just hope they fix the black screen bug with the next update.
israndy
Supercharger Hunter
Remember the Model 3, whose forum we are in, was designed to be full-self-driving. So if I am going to be sitting there for hours with a steering wheel in the way of my opening a laptop I am happy for the browser. There are already many Tesla aware web apps that extend the capabilities of the car (see my post above). Not saying it would have killed me if they had never released a browser for the Model 3 as one was never promised, but, yeah, it would have killed me.
Compared to which other car? This is the very first browser for the Model 3, so I forgive the 10 reboots in two days and expect it to only get better.
-Randy
