Questions on HondaLink

Why do you dislike it being locked? All you have to do is put your hand inside the door handle (not even open it) to unlock the doors.

 

I have to agree with craze1 on this. I don’t carry my car keys when I’m in my house and it made me nuts when my car locked in the garage and I went to grab something and couldn’t get in. I turned the auto lock off after two days.

 

Try that while lounging around the house wih no car keys in your pocket...now you gotta run inside, mutter under your breath about the stupid Honda locking itself again, get keys, try again....

 

Bang on, brutha...that’s EXACTLY why I hate that feature and killed it.

And exactly why I’d like the security of looking at my app while sitting in a restaurant and wondering to myself....is the car locked? Can’t remember if I locked it or not.... oh yeah it says right here on my HondaLink that the status of my car is LOCKED....sweet. But no, this feature does not exist with Honda like it does for some of the other brands, despite the fact that it can tell me exactly where it’s parked and can turn on the climate control. Yet it can’t do something equally basic like lock or unlock the car?

It is simply a stupid oversight on Honda’s part, and I strongly urge them to ask one of their 20 year old programmers to spend a half day at the computer to add it. There are reasons the app gets 2 out of 5 stars on App Store. This is one. I can’t think of a nicer way to say it...

 

I agree.

The engineer in me wonders . . . obviously the mechanism exists for locking the doors since the car can do it automatically or you can do it using the fob. But is the status locked/unlocked reported to whatever component that the HondaLink app queries? If not then obviously it's a bigger deal to enable the app to report it. Same with the ability to trigger a door lock/unlock . . . we can trigger climate via the app, so one would assume that the same capability is there for the doors. But we all know what "assume" means.

 

Well if Ford can figure out (2018 Explorer) with their FordPass app I'm sure Honda can figure it out IF they wanted to. The FordPass is so much better than the Honda Clarity's. The FordPass app has: lock, unlock, remote start, fuel level, tire pressure, oil life, real time location of vehicle (including travel path from home to current location), hot spot connection, scheduled starts, and a couple of more.

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Eh I always have my keys on me so hasn't bothered me at all... in fact I never touch them when using the car now

 

EDIT: I'll disagree with this statement, cuz Acuralink offers lock/unlock from their app, and Acura = Honda.

Clarity and most Hondas simply doesn't get it.

 

The 2018 CR-V doesn’t get it either. If you think the Clarity app is lacking, other than location the CR-V does nothing.

 

Yeah the more I search other Honda models the more I see other people complaining of the same thing...seems remote lock/unlock doesn't really exist across the Honda lineup...

Though Acura does!! See Screenshots here for "lock/unlock" on their app:
https://acuralink.acura.com/#/ but you gotta pay to play -- they don't get it without expensive annual subscription fee either.

So now we know Honda can do it....they choose not to offer it for their lowly base-car buyers...even if I was willing to pay the subscription.

 

Nice. I wish Honda would develop app envy.

 

But HondaLink is free--more than $200/year less expensive than FordPass. I agree the features you list have merit, but not enough to make me want to pay. Of course, Honda could offer HondaLink and HondaLink Plus to make us both happy.

 

I'm not paying for the FordPass. There is Fordpass and there is FordPass smartlink. You are thinking of the smartlink which is about $17/mo. The features that I outlined was FordPass which is free.

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Thanks, I googled for the FordPass cost and ran with the first number I found. If the basic FordPass has all those desirable features, what makes FordPass smartlink worth $17/month?

 

Oh, I found the answer, the FordPass SmartLink adds a wifi hotspot for $17/month.