Confirmed - 1hr hot weather (pet) mode

[DoogleMac]

It’s going to be over 100 deg F in the Arizona desert soon. I’d like to be able to leave the A/C on while I go into a store. Cost of electricity is not a problem for me, because I use generated excess solar power (that would ordinarily go to the grid) to charge the MME at a rate of $.01/kWh.

I found I can leave the car running for 30 min and then restart it remotely for another 30 minutes when extended. Evidently the lights stay on when it is remotely started, but that’s OK. Haven’t tried to continue to restart again and again but I suspect it will work.

bring on the heat!

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[RickMachE]

Leave car running. Turn off shutdown timer. Lock doors.

 

[DoogleMac]

Thanks,
sorry but I don’t know how to turn off the shut down timer.
please enlighten me.

 

[Snakebitten]

It's in Sync.

 

[Deleted member 19354]

It’s going to be over 100 deg F in the Arizona desert soon. I’d like to be able to leave the A/C on while I go into a store. Cost of electricity is not a problem for me, because I use generated excess solar power (that would ordinarily go to the grid) to charge the MME at a rate of $.01/kWh.

I found I can leave the car running for 30 min and then restart it remotely for another 30 minutes when extended. Evidently the lights stay on when it is remotely started, but that’s OK. Haven’t tried to continue to restart again and again but I suspect it will work.

bring on the heat!

You almost had me very angry. I thought you were going to leave a pet in the car. I show dogs and a few years back a handler had 18 dogs in his care his power source blew and 3 dogs parrished.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

The shutdown timer is in one of the settings menus. You’ll have to dig around to find it.

 

[DoogleMac]

Thank you RickMachE, Snake bitten and Kameulaflyer!
this forum is a wonderful resource!

 

[Electric Goat]

Can confirm. Just leave car running, disable the shutdown timer, lock the car via the touch pad on the door and take the keys with you. The car has secure park and won't shift out of park unless a key is detected inside of the car.

 

[san]

Can confirm. Just leave car running, disable the shutdown timer, lock the car via the touch pad on the door and take the keys with you. The car has secure park and won't shift out of park unless a key is detected inside of the car.

Does it do the obnoxious double honk when you do this?

 

[Snakebitten]

Not if you disable it (double honk)

It can be obnoxious!

 

[Electric Goat]

Does it do the obnoxious double honk when you do this?

Yes... but I had my double honk disabled via FORScan

 

[stealthytolkien]

Not if you disable it (double honk)

It can be obnoxious!

One morning I realized that I was out of coffee, I just went to the car, left a door ajar and tried to lock it. It woke me up REAL fast with that double honk.

 

[Tim253253]

Thanks,
sorry but I don’t know how to turn off the shut down timer.
please enlighten me.

 

[IMDIDOC]

It’s going to be over 100 deg F in the Arizona desert soon. I’d like to be able to leave the A/C on while I go into a store. Cost of electricity is not a problem for me, because I use generated excess solar power (that would ordinarily go to the grid) to charge the MME at a rate of $.01/kWh.

I found I can leave the car running for 30 min and then restart it remotely for another 30 minutes when extended. Evidently the lights stay on when it is remotely started, but that’s OK. Haven’t tried to continue to restart again and again but I suspect it will work.

bring on the heat!

You may want to place a sign in the window stating the air conditioner is running and the dog is comfortable. Otherwise, someone will report you and may try to break into the vehicle.

 

[DoogleMac]

Thank you!

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