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Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
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The differentiating factor between car models is not the hardware in the world of EVs. It's the software. And right now, if you aren't either on Tesla, Rivian, or Polestar the software experience is horrific.
Ford will flat out lock your account so even the official app won’t work for you if they notice you using a 3rd party app.
Like once in a while it would show correct status, or sometimes it would start heating.
But mostly it just lied. Like I could stand next to the car, issue the heating command, wait a minute, force it to check the car's status and it would tell me the car was heating while nothing had changed with the car.
So yea, gave up on the app, didn't use it the last years I owned it.
That said, enjoyed the writeup, looks like a nice project and as a bonus I learned about some new tools.
Ford will flat out lock your account so even the official app won’t work for you if they notice you using a 3rd party app.
What recourse (if any) do owners have if that happens?
Many people have been bitten by this, it's a common thread on related forums. https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/ford-suspending-acco...
I don't understand Ford, VW, etc. They make these nice cars that are just unusable junk because of their software.
I wish that US car manufacturers would finally realize that they're software companies with a hardware device, and pivot accordingly. The differentiating factor between car models is not the hardware in the world of EVs. It's the software. And right now, if you aren't either on Tesla, Rivian, or Polestar the software experience is horrific.
It's whackadoodle. I mean how different are cars, really? They have wheels, doors, windows, odometers, go places at various speeds, need fuel ... you'd think there'd be some agreed universal baseline like MIDI ... you'd think.
And the manufacturers held on to their protocols like they had done their own Manhatten project so everyone just had to backwards engineer things.
Why is inoperability so precious? Ultimately the purchasing decision is the car's price, features, availability, terms of the deal... The phone app has nothing to do with it, let it go.