Yes this is correct. It only reports its position infrequently and mainly on engine off. The only way of doing what you are thinking (without a phone), is to buy a cheap GPS telematics unit and wire into the 12V power socket in the boot (assuming you have it). It is pretty cheap to do and ensures that it is not powered when the engine is off.
The other way I have achieved this is (again as always with HA - depending on your router), you can detect when your phone connects to home Wifi. Mine generally does this on the drive and most times triggers the action quickly (but not always). I use this to turn the outside lights on if it is dark when arriving home. Normally on by the time I get out of the car - but maybe I mess about a lot!
Does starting the car only work for EVs? I have an XE and canāt get it to auto start. I donāt get any errors when making the call and when I go into the jaguar app it appears to show my engine is running but when I go out to the car it is not.
Thatās a bit wierd as it shouldnt matter which sensor you use as it only needs an entity to work out which car you send the request to, so it can support multiple cars on the same account.
If the app says the engine is running then it it has correctly sent the request to the JLR servers. Would appreciate if you could try again with the info sensor and if it consistantly does not work or if it was some anomoly.
i am new to home assistant, how would i pre condition the car? there is a call service that allows me to do this (eg in an automation) but i am required to state the entity id of the vehicle and im unsure which entity id i should use. I am using a 2020 range rover sport.
Hi all! Still very much enjoying this integration and all aspects are still working perfectly. The only issue Iām having is I seem to have to reload the integration every few days for it to continue to talk to the car. Is there anything Iām missing here or why it should stop responding after a few days? A simple reload of just that integration (rather than Home Assistant full restart) solves the problem each time but it is annoying as I canāt find a way to automate the reload either.
Glad you like it. I have not seen this issue but can you enable debugging to see if you get any errors in the logs. If so, can raise an issue on the github repo and i will look at it to see if we can resolve.
Will do many thanks for getting back to me! One thing Iāve just noticed is my health update interval was set to 1min, Iāve just read your notes about not setting it too low so I wonder if I was upsetting the JLR servers perhaps?? Iāve set it to 120mins now as per your advice and left the scan interval at 1min.
I originally thought it was the car going to sleep but on mine thatās 4 days I think and seems to be ok for only about 24 hours without needing an integration reload.
I will try it with the new duration and enable debugging over next few days to see if anything pops up!
Great integration! But I am a little bit lost how to call the services. I try to start_preconditioning but the air condition does not start. No error message either. So what I am doing wrong?
I had this issue too, instead i found using the jlrincontrol.start_vehicle does exactly the same thing. Also be sure to include your pin in the service data as well as the target temperature and entity_id. Furthermore i used the sensor.my_car_status instead. Hope this helps.
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note i am using a range rover sport hst 2020, it could be different for your jaguar
Clearly Iām doing something wrong here but Iāve installed with via HACS, restarted HA but configuration ā integrations ā add integration but it doesnāt show up in the list?
Edd, ive seen before where it caches this list and yoi habe to do a shift F5 refresh to reload the list. Give that a try, if not, have you got any errors in the logs?
