Switch off climate control remotely

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AndysComputer

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So with the car parked in the garage my wife accidentally hit the fan icon on the app which after several seconds gave the pop up saying “climatize now command successfully sent” but unlike the Tesla app there is nothing in app to say the climate is now running…
So I figured I’d press the fan button again assuming it would turn climatize off but it doesn’t, I just got the “climatize now commander successfully sent” pop up again.

So two questions:
1. how can you tell from the app that climate is currently running?
2. How can you turn climate off from the app?

I guess a third question would be, does anyone think that the updates to the app have been poor over the years with nothing genuinely useful added, just themes and other nonsense?
Not to mention it still takes like 30s
to a minute to send a command which is painfully slow in this day and age…
 
Meanwhile I came back after a weeklong trip overseas, and when I called up the cooling as I was walking from the terminal to the lot... nothing. When I got to the car, it had the same warning it had when I traveled in March, when there was less than 50% battery available. This time I made sure to park with an almost full charge, showing 92% when I left and later in the week when I checked the status. Apparently, if it's been parked more than a certain amount of time, it will not start cabin conditioning via the app. That's just dumb programming.
 
insightman said:
The app eventually tells you when the command to start the climate system was successful.
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It does, but it does not show that it is currently running, mor that it has automatically stopped running after some time.m, ie no notification for that. There is just no way to tell…
 
teslarati97 said:
I'm guessing it auto shuts off after 30 minutes.
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I thought it shuts off when the (hard-coded) target cabin temperature is reached. From experience the only way I know to shut it off is to get in the car, as previously stated. On the other hand, since it shuts itself off there's no real downside to accidentally activating it, other than losing 1-2% of SoC if not plugged in.
 
Well in the winter, the heated seats are activated in addition to the heat pump or resistive heater. I've only let it run for 15 minutes at -14F.

If it's really cold and I need the range, I'd just schedule a departure time 30+ minutes in advance (while plugged into EVSE) and precondition the cabin + battery. For 95% of the time, it's just climatization (cabin only)
 
SameGuy said:
Apparently, if it's been parked more than a certain amount of time, it will not start cabin conditioning via the app.
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I don't know if this could be the issue, but I was just reading in the manual that if you leave the car for a long period of time (which was not specified), the car will enter "Deep sleep mode":

Deep sleep mode is activated to prevent the vehicle battery from discharging when the vehicle is stationary for several weeks.

In deep sleep mode, the vehicle functions are limited to the essentials.​

Maybe climatizing isn't "essential."
 
Yes, but I can check the status after several days away, so it isn't entirely asleep, and three lines of code could have the system check to make sure the SoC is above a certain level before giving the cabin conditioning command. It's just lazy programming.
 
SameGuy said:
make sure the SoC is above a certain level before giving the cabin conditioning command
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Using the app to initiate climatization could be considered a manual override, so it should turn on if activated. I don't think I'd want the app control to fail because of some arbitrary condition. Imagine if the lock control in the app failed because it was too windy (as a hypothetical).
 
Right, but the screen is telling me it didn't initiate "in order to protect the battery." How hard is to code "IF [SoC] ≥ [XX]% THEN [initiate climatization] ELSE [post warning]"?
 
This is an annoying new bug.

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I requested it once. My phone pinged six times in quick succession.
 
I've done beta tests before. I've just signed up for Testbirds and it wants me to do an "entry test" so I've clicked on it, but I don't really understand what's next.
 
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