Dan Albrich
Well-Known Member
So an update and some thoughts. I usually check my honda link a couple to three times a day. Nothing fancy, mainly checking to see if it shows its charging. Also if I use a charger at work we have a 2 hour recommended time limit, so I plugin, car fills, HondaLink notify's full charge, I move my car so someone else can use the charger. Overall the stuff as been pretty reliable.
Anyway, tonight I checked after work, and the car still shows at work with different EV charge status than actual. Doing things like attempting climate on/off not working. So yep, has now happened to me (and maybe did in past and I failed to notice).
In the past when it didn't work, maybe older version of HondaLink it seemed to update when I clicked FindMyCar. As was indicated this didn't work for me tonight (maybe it never did, but I'd almost swear at least with old versions of Honda Link it seemed to update).
Finally I have no data on how this is implemented, but in my mind I've always assumed the car sends/receives SMS/or MMS messages. It's possible to buy text messages even on "machine to machine" plans with carriers, and it would seem least costly to implement. Of course they could be doing a TCP/IP connection to the car, but that would likely be less reliable than SMS; SMS text keeps trying if it initially fails.
-Dan
Edit: Since I originally wrote this post, opened HL again, and it auto-updated. I now have the correct EV range etc. So it was very slow to get its update (but now appears to be "back" -- that is at least until it fails again.)
Anyway, tonight I checked after work, and the car still shows at work with different EV charge status than actual. Doing things like attempting climate on/off not working. So yep, has now happened to me (and maybe did in past and I failed to notice).
In the past when it didn't work, maybe older version of HondaLink it seemed to update when I clicked FindMyCar. As was indicated this didn't work for me tonight (maybe it never did, but I'd almost swear at least with old versions of Honda Link it seemed to update).
Finally I have no data on how this is implemented, but in my mind I've always assumed the car sends/receives SMS/or MMS messages. It's possible to buy text messages even on "machine to machine" plans with carriers, and it would seem least costly to implement. Of course they could be doing a TCP/IP connection to the car, but that would likely be less reliable than SMS; SMS text keeps trying if it initially fails.
-Dan
Edit: Since I originally wrote this post, opened HL again, and it auto-updated. I now have the correct EV range etc. So it was very slow to get its update (but now appears to be "back" -- that is at least until it fails again.)
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