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Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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Post by bayindirh »

nikanj wrote: post #43
wizerno wrote: post #26

Does anyone else miss the functionality of the Android WhatsApp widget [1] on iOS? Being able to read messages without sending read receipts via the widget is a great feature. The iOS notification 'peek' is a clumsy substitute. Is this a fundamental limitation of iOS widgets/APIs, or just something WhatsApp hasn't implemented? Curious if others have found better ways to handle this on iPhone. [1] https://www.tomsguid…

It is implemented in the app itself. WhatsApp > Settings > Privacy and turn off Read receipt.

The use case is slightly different. I prefer to send read receipts, but I also like to peek at messages without sending them and removing unread counts because I want to add the message to my mental queue, but don't want the false impression that I didn't bother to answer the said message.

Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

geoffpado wrote: post #48
delusional wrote: post #41

Earlier 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 can scrape the ice off manually and wear adequate clothing to “survive the drive”. Toughen up, dude!

Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #68
Gasp0de wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know you can just scratch the ice off, right?

Many cardiac events start that way.

Dude if scraping ice off a windshield gives you a heart attack you have way bigger problems than your car not heating up remotely. Go see a doctor.

Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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Post by nkrisc »

jdminhbg wrote: post #25
serial_dev wrote: post #23

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> apps as a weird Tech People affectation Maybe I never had the right luxury brand car, but I still see it as such. If I want to have an app for my car, I’m my opinion that car failed me to provide with a simple, convenient driving experience. I want to get in the car, check if it’s charged / filled up enough, check for errors (as a routine, but there shouldn’t be any), and drive. If I need to change anything (AC, li…

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…

Having used a car for many years, I suppose these things are nicer than not having them, but they also sound like the kind of features I’d come up with if you said to me, “we already developed an app for our latest car model. What should it do?”

Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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Post by robertlagrant »

smokel wrote: post #37
xp84 wrote: post #33

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> Still not sure why on Earth car manufacturers Like all similar "why don't they have at least a self/community-supported open basic API" questions, the answer is usually the same: They're afraid someone else might create something of value, in part using their API, without them getting their own beaks wet in the process. If you want to integrate with a Nissan Leaf, even if all you wanted were the most harmless read-…

> They're afraid someone else might create something of value, in part using their API, without them getting their own beaks wet in the process. In most cases it's not about profit, but about having to invest serious amounts of effort to please one or two hackers, who will then DoS your API as soon as you've made a mistake.

Indeed. The day to day compliance work will be very expensive, and in addition you would need to put a lot of money aside in case of a security flaw.

Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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Post by robertlagrant »

Gasp0de wrote: post #54
geoffpado wrote: post #48

Earlier 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?

And they could just walk.

Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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Post by robertlagrant »

larusso wrote: post #64
delusional wrote: post #41

Earlier 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…

I want to chime in. I drive Skoda Enyaq (VW Family EV, think ID.4) and have all these gimmicks. I ruled out a Model 3 because at that time it didn’t come with some of these features like notarized trunk etc. I have my car on a schedule and it automatically heats up, turns on the seat heaters and defrosts the windshield. By the time I leave the house I have seither a snuggly warm car or pre cooled car. That is a huge…

Pro tip: a sealable plastic sandwich bag filled with boiling water from the kettle. Rub it on the ice; watch the ice vanish extremely quickly.

Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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Post by toss1 »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #68
Gasp0de wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know you can just scratch the ice off, right?

Many cardiac events start that way.

Huh?

Across decades, I've heard of many cardiac events from shoveling the driveway, but absolutely zero from scraping ice off a car windshield. This correlates to the vast difference in effort required by each action — scooping, lifting and moving tons of snow, vs scraping at a few ounces of ice (which is even easier if you let the car run a few minutes with the windshield defrost on).

Now, if we had car (not trucks setup for plowing) that could automatically clear the driveway, that would be a must-have feature in areas with winter climates...

Re: Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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Post by BigGreenJorts »

Gasp0de wrote: post #54
geoffpado wrote: post #48

Earlier 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?

The luxury of not having to stand in the cold reaching over the windshield scraping is worth so so so much. Add to that not having to sit in a cold car, waiting for it to warm up, is also worth a lot.
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