Charge On Solar Australia

[cafz]

TheDriven says Tesla are enabling Charge-On-Solar (for those with a Powerwall) in Australia tomorrow:

Tesla to launch its EV "charge on solar" Powerwall product in Australia on Friday

A long awaited part of the Tesla app will finally launch in Australia on Friday, allowing owners of Tesla Powerwall batteries to charge their EVs with excess solar from their power system.

thedriven.io

 

[JonDarian]

TheDriven says Tesla are enabling Charge-On-Solar (for those with a Powerwall) in Australia tomorrow:

Tesla to launch its EV "charge on solar" Powerwall product in Australia on Friday

A long awaited part of the Tesla app will finally launch in Australia on Friday, allowing owners of Tesla Powerwall batteries to charge their EVs with excess solar from their power system.

thedriven.io

That would be awesome. I have been waiting for that for a long time. I might even install a wall connector now!

The best feature is speeding ticket avoidance.

Yep, which is why it is frustrating that TACC so often fails in construction zones.

 

[bcarp]

TheDriven says Tesla are enabling Charge-On-Solar (for those with a Powerwall) in Australia tomorrow:

I wonder what time. Not seeing it yet.

 

[Ottmeister]

I wonder what time. Not seeing it yet.

I wonder whether it will outperform Charge HQ app. That has been great even now with $7/m subscription. They added a lot of features.

 

[EcoCloudIT]

I wonder whether it will outperform Charge HQ app. That has been great even now with $7/m subscription. They added a lot of features.

I'll keep Charge HQ for the mid-2018 X and if Tesla system works well for the 3 that would be nice....it's still not showing.

 

[sammody]

I wonder whether it will outperform Charge HQ app. That has been great even now with $7/m subscription. They added a lot of features.

The main benefit of chargeHQ is the grid aware functionality and having an excellent scheduler and control over the charging rate. Teala's app in this regard is rubbish at the moment. So in it's current form no I don't think so but over time maybe.

 

[EcoCloudIT]

The main benefit of chargeHQ is the grid aware functionality and having an excellent scheduler and control over the charging rate. Teala's app in this regard is rubbish at the moment. So in it's current form no I don't think so but over time maybe.

What is control over charging rate? It’s seems from what I’ve read Tesla app has this, no?

Also, what is grid aware functionality?

I don’t use the scheduler however Tesla explain how one can combine scheduling and the new charge on solar functionality.

Of course it’s all a moot point as it’s still not showing, not sure if we’re to get it 1min before the end of the 23rd….or we get it on our 24th (USA 23rd)….grr

 

[bcarp]

Of course it’s all a moot point as it’s still not showing, not sure if we’re to get it 1min before the end of the 23rd….or we get it on our 24th (USA 23rd)….grr

It’s after midnight here so it’ll either be US time or Elon time.

 

[EcoCloudIT]

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It’s after midnight here so it’ll either be US time or Elon time.

Oh well, must be Elon time as it’s still not showing for me and I have all the boxes ticked for it to show (equipment/firmware etc.).

 

[jamesgo]

So has anyone seen the Charge-On-Solar options? I've checked my place and my parents (both with Tesla's and Powerwalls)... Can't see the option on for either. I'm on iOS 4.30.0 version which is the latest.

 

[Hairyman]

Hasn’t turned up for me either. I’m on the latest car and iOS app software and 23.28.2 Powerwall software.

As with many things Tesla, I wait with Zen-like detachment.

 

[paulp]

I havnt seen it either, although after the last powerwall update that destroyed all of my historic data I’m more than happy to leave it on the current version.

 

[Aussie Scotty]

Can't see the option on for either. I'm on iOS 4.30.0 version which is the latest.

They quietly changed the requirements.

Charge on Solar | Tesla Support

With Charge on Solar, your Tesla vehicle can charge using only excess solar energy produced by your solar system. Learn more about using the Tesla app to set Charge on Solar limits and more.

www.tesla.com

Tesla app4.30.5 or Higher

 

[Vostok]

It’ll be interesting to see if Tesla limits this to cars that are WiFi connected in their garage, and it won’t work if they are not, unless the customer has Premium Connectivity.

That’s because Tesla’s SIM contract with Telstra would be based on a certain average amount of data usage per SIM per month, a cost which Tesla absorbs. Customers with Premium data would have a higher average data allowance per month and the customer pays $10/mo for the privilege.

Charge on Solar will massively increase Tesla’s API calls to the car to continuously vary the charging rate - I understand it will be every 2-3 minutes. Fine if that’s over WiFi, possibly not fine if it is done over cellular.

 

[jamesgo]

Ah okay.. followed up with Tesla and it's coming still, it needs a later App version (over) 4.30.5, which is going to be released later this week.

So min spec is now:

 

[Priit]

It’ll be interesting to see if Tesla limits this to cars that are WiFi connected in their garage, and it won’t work if they are not, unless the customer has Premium Connectivity.

That’s because Tesla’s SIM contract with Telstra would be based on a certain average amount of data usage per SIM per month, a cost which Tesla absorbs. Customers with Premium data would have a higher average data allowance per month and the customer pays $10/mo for the privilege.

Charge on Solar will massively increase Tesla’s API calls to the car to continuously vary the charging rate - I understand it will be every 2-3 minutes. Fine if that’s over WiFi, possibly not fine if it is done over cellular.

I dont believe the API calls will generate much traffic, they are rather small data packages (few kb each). In the last week I have noticed twice that when I got home and my car connected to wifi, it did a massive upload to Tesla in excess of 1.1-1.5GB, I suspect that was video from cameras on the last drive that day or collection of videos from specific type of drives for their AI learning as that much data from logs does not seem realistic. I do have premium connectivity, but it would appear that with such large data amounts they still prefer to send it over wifi. It has not happened every day, so I suspect they were collecting something specific at the time.

 

[ZeeDoktor]

That's only a few minutes of video plus logs. If that's what it was?

I suspect they pay Telstra for a given data volume across the fleet - which is why updates don't come down via 4G, and probably also why we never got/never will get remote sentry view.

 

[Chuq]

I notice the app layout has changed slightly, although my app apparently hasn’t received an update since 16 Feb… maybe I'm just not very observant. Here the screenshots anyway...

First one - drop down on left shows your other products, speech bubble is messages, hamburger menu takes you to the following screen.

App version reporting at v4.30.0-2221.

 

[SPadival]

Does “Charge on Solar” work now with 4.30.05? NotATeslaApp says it’s enabled for Europe.

 

[sammody]

Does “Charge on Solar” work now with 4.30.05?

Supposed to. But there's been reports that it isn't working.