When our youngest son was a teenager, a frequent reply to almost any question about his activities was, "You don't need to know everything." It was irksome at the time but, in a more general sense I think we would all agree to the need to be selective about the information we commit to long term memory.… Read More
TLDR; I reconfigured the TeslaUSB we set up in the first blog and added the feature to sync music from a network share and also added the ability to get notifications when the dashcam archiving completes. It seems to be working perfectly! Hooray!
The long version:
Hopefully, you read our previous blog about setting up the TeslaUSB. In… Read More
TLDR; I installed and configured TeslaUSB on a Raspberry Pi Zero W in about 20 minutes and it WORKED! Our Model 3 sees the RPi as a USB Storage device and stores DashCam clips just as it should. When I return home, the TeslaUSB connects to my WiFi and uploads anything in the SavedClips or SentryClips directory to my… Read More
Hopefully, you read our earlier blog entry about prepping for the winter months but now that they’re here you may be wondering if there’s anything you can do about the affect cold temperature is having on your range. We scoured the internet for answers and here’s what we found.
As this article in Wired magazine explains,… Read More
From the garage of He Said:
Today is the 12th and last day of our 12 Days of Tesla Christmas shopping and your last opportunity to get your favorite Tesla Model 3 owner a… Read More
As pick up lines go this one could bomb...unless you're at a Tesla Supercharger or road rally where everyone knows about one of the more revered features of a Tesla, which is the storage space under the hood (that’s bonnet to my British friends). Tesla calls it the front trunk, but owners just refer to it as… Read More
Occasionally, when I mention to someone that I drive a Tesla or that I have investments in the company, I’ll get a response like, “The cars might be okay but that Musk guy sounds like a jerk” or something worse. If I ask what makes them think that, the answer is usually pretty vague or begins… Read More
What is a Gigafactory? Elon Musk calls it the “machine that builds the machine”. “Giga” is a prefix denoting “billion” but, in this case it means… Read More
Winter is coming. In some parts of the country it’s already arrived. Fortunately, our Teslas don't use engine coolant so they don't require antifreeze but what are the things that we should do to “winterize” our Model 3s? Here are some suggestions and a couple of links to other sources about getting ready for the cold winter… Read More