What a persistence by the author, but why would Nissan make this so hard?
Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
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Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
#52I 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 coming. Ford and GM have started to build more software in house, while VW is partnering with Rivian partly to get their software expertise.
The problem car companies have is if they are beholden to android and apple then they are at the mercy of whatever those two want to charge.
Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say the place where I differ is here: > I want to get in the car, I don't want to have to get in the car to do any of this. I'm able to get the climate control started in the car by saying out loud "Hey Siri, warm up car" (a shortcut I set up exposed by the Tesla app). The location is always up-to-date so if my wife is driving the kids in it, I can see their current location and ETA. I want to be able to open…
Finally I get to ask this of a real person. How important are these things for you? If the automatic trunk motor broke, how much would you be willing to pay to fix it? What is the value difference for you to be able to heat up the car from outside the car? My questions point towards some variation of my central question: why does any of those things matter to you in a car? The primary purpose of a car is to get me pl…
How important is it for you to have a garage door opener? As opposed to manually getting out of your car, opening it, and then closing it manually
I see these extra features as similar to a garage door opener. It is convenient and I'd be willing to pay to fix it if it ever broke
Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Finally I get to ask this of a real person. How important are these things for you? If the automatic trunk motor broke, how much would you be willing to pay to fix it? What is the value difference for you to be able to heat up the car from outside the car? My questions point towards some variation of my central question: why does any of those things matter to you in a car? The primary purpose of a car is to get me pl…
(Not the person you’re replying to) I’ve never had a car with an automatic trunk motor, so I can’t answer that one, but back when I lived in the Midwest, if my ability to remote start the car to power climate control (particularly of the windshield defrost) stopped working, that definitely would have been in the “I’m willing to pay thousands to fix this” realm. In some cases, that would absolutely limit the ability f…
You know you can just scratch the ice off, right?
Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
#55If you're running Home Assistant and your LEAF is from before 2019, you may be able to replace the scraping part with the Nissan Leaf integration https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/nissan_leaf/. Their iOS app also has support for custom widgets https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/integrations/ios-wi... which might suffice for what you're trying to achieve.
It's unfortunate that newer cars are not supported.
Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
#56Just like OBD, I think api access to data like this should be open to the car user. If the manufacturer is taking the data ( as they do with my renault zoe) then it should be available to the end user at a standard API which is available across all manufacturers, so if you change car you can just point your setup at a new endpoint with new credentials and all the endpoints and responses are standard, just like OBD2 i…
In the EU, this may soon be covered by the Data Act [1]. It'd be interesting to see if other continents will benefit as well, similar to how cookie banners are now a global thing. [1] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/data-act
Daring to call cookie banners a benefit.
Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
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Me! Best car I ever owned. It’s got the turning circle of an oil tanker and and is frustratingly easy to turn on wrong, but I like it a lot. Maybe I need to aim higher?
Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
#58I wonder if the OBD alternatives mentioned in the article actually work? I'd imagine that they wake up the entire CAN bus frequently, quickly draining the cars 12V battery?
Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Not the person you’re replying to) I’ve never had a car with an automatic trunk motor, so I can’t answer that one, but back when I lived in the Midwest, if my ability to remote start the car to power climate control (particularly of the windshield defrost) stopped working, that definitely would have been in the “I’m willing to pay thousands to fix this” realm. In some cases, that would absolutely limit the ability f…
You know you can just scratch the ice off, right?
If something is broken to the point that the car can't heat up, yet it's cold that there is thick ice on the windshield I would think twice about driving. Even if you could remove the ice.
Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know you can just scratch the ice off, right?
If something is broken to the point that the car can't heat up, yet it's cold that there is thick ice on the windshield I would think twice about driving. Even if you could remove the ice.
No one said anything about anything being broken, just about the ability to remotely heat up the car before starting to drive. Having a heating and having a remote controlled heating that works with the car switched off are two separate things.