The Great Electric Vehicle topic: apps and experiences with electric driving

Not yet, sorry. I’ve been on holiday the last few weeks and car stopped responding for some reason (Android app does not work either), means I’m currently unable to test any changes.

Anyone from Finland in this thread?

I charge a lot with ABC-Mobiili, but the installation on my work phone has logged me out, and trying to log in only shows a white canvas area.

I eventually nuked the cache and data and tried switching between Firefox and Mull if it’s a browser tie-in issue. No luck.

Logcat had nothing to say either, but would I need some other invocation than just running it to debug deeper?

I doubt this a mobilepay-style situation where the app is just crap, because the latest release has been around a while, and I tried some random downgrades.

Xperia 10 iii 4.6.0.13.

Fortunately my old personal phone is still logged into ABC, but sadly that provider apparently doesn’t believe in RFID backup fobs, so this kinda sucks if it gets logged out as well.

ABC-mobile v. 4.31.8 works on the upcoming 4.6.0 release (the next after 4.6.0.13). Only the location feature does not work as the app obviously relies on Google’s API. My phone is organic (no microG or anything like that).

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@jovirkku splendid news, thank you! I have that microg fluff installed but I generally don’t use location for anything. ABC-Mobiili is nice enough to remember my favorite places :wink:

The location works with microg. Although usually I have already started charging before it finds the correct location, thanks to the app remembering the preferred chargers.

Hello again,

sorry, about annoying you again about the topic. But i’d really love to see you app released to the public, because SFOS just lacks high quality apps in the app store at the moment.

Best regards,
Andreas

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I’m sorry to disappoint, but you may be expecting too much from this app. I will try to release the source code in the hope that it might be useful to someone as a starting point, but this app is far from being universally usable or in a state suitable for release on the app store. As mentioned, my VIN is hard-coded in some places, and you’ll also need a Tesla fleet key for it to be usable.

Hi, don’t get me wrong. I do not expect too much from your concrete app, since i do not have an EV. But the app may server as a starting point for other people that have an EV and are interested in having a native SFOS app, even if it is not a Tesla (assuming the other EV verndors provide some some API to access the data). Maybe the vendor specific stuff can be externalized to some Plugin architecture so the app could be used for different vendors …
We will see how creative the SFOS users are…

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Any news or progress on releasing the sources?

Yes.

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Bad news… Whichever version I had of ABC, and now 4.33.6, tried to work, but the app goes full white. Unsure I can kick off an EV charge faster than it breaks :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

They started serving something that breaks the webview thing?

Ouch, so it seems. Care to file a bug report about that?

I did some debugging; it looks like the issue is with the map display which just can’t handle the situation when the location is not know. Annoying, but there is an easy workaround: Start GPSInfo first, wait until you have a fix, and then start ABC-mobiili.

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I’ll try that next time, thanks!

This time around I started in airplane mode to prevent loading whatever caused the breakage. Then I went to search, airplane off, and found where I’m at. Then it was smooth sailing.

Can’t remember when I turned comms on, maybe the charging location was cached, or I tirned airplane off and got the location without breaking, but it’s doing its thing now.

Is this something that can eaily be fuzzed into the Android layer or is gpsinfo the permanent fix?

Ps.
Sounds like this would suck for regular Android users too who don’t have a gps position, right? Like underground.

Thank you!

Might take a while due to the the long existing GPS slow to fix / can’t fix if signal is weak bug. Just taking the opportunity to nag about basic hardware bugs…

Indeed. There are reports about the app not working without GPS fix for regular Android users as well.

If you wish, I can push this to the SailfishOS apps · GitHub or -chum repos after restructuring so it can be built off device?

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I’m not sure it’s worth the effort at this point. You need to input your VIN directly into the QML because there’s no settings page at all. Tesla has also announced they will start charging customers a usage fee for the app, plus you need a fleet key anyway (unless you’re using BLE, perhaps).

Settings are trivial to make in QML :slight_smile:

Ok, I’ll ignore it for the time being :slight_smile: