App Idea - "Fire and Forget" climate control on.

DaveVa said:

One app that I would definitely use is a quick way to turn on climate control.

With the current iPhone app it takes more than a minute to launch the app, wait for the vehicle to wake up, connect and then select the "turn on" option from the climate control screen. I would love a "fire and forget" app that had a single function. Turn on the climate control. It would then go through the connection steps with the car in the background. Notification if it failed via SMS would be great, but not really required since it would probably be 95% effective most of the time.

An app-less approach would be to allow the control/climante commands via text message to a server - It could be configured to only allow receive enabled commands from certain source phone numbers.

Seems like an easy apps for all those developers that have created alternate mobile apps. Thoughts?

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DaveVa said:

One app that I would definitely use is a quick way to turn on climate control.

With the current iPhone app it takes more than a minute to launch the app, wait for the vehicle to wake up, connect and then select the "turn on" option from the climate control screen. I would love a "fire and forget" app that had a single function. Turn on the climate control. It would then go through the connection steps with the car in the background. Notification if it failed via SMS would be great, but not really required since it would probably be 95% effective most of the time.

An app-less approach would be to allow the control/climante commands via text message to a server - It could be configured to only allow receive enabled commands from certain source phone numbers.

Seems like an easy apps for all those developers that have created alternate mobile apps. Thoughts?

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redi said:

I'd like this with a preset timer or schedule. I often know hours in advance what time I will be at the car ready to go. But alas, I rarely remember with 15 minutes remaining to pull out the phone and turn it on manually.

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Jason S said:

I use the Java program's schedule feature to turn the climate on... like a programmable thermostat. I'm thinking I should add the feature to vent/close the roof to the schedule options just so I can put that in the schedule as well.

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shelbri said:

Ordered my MS on June 1st and have been thinking about it quite a bit. Does the app allow you to turn on the rear camera and broadcast this back to the phone? That would be a nice feature.

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redi said:

I'd like this with a preset timer or schedule. I often know hours in advance what time I will be at the car ready to go. But alas, I rarely remember with 15 minutes remaining to pull out the phone and turn it on manually.

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