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BMW has recently added hCaptcha (sometimes) to the login for the connected services. If Octopus needs to login to their servers, they'll need to adapt to that. I found out from the HomeAssistant component's bug tracker when my HA BMW integration stopped working within the last few weeks. Bug...

You're kind of leaving everyone in suspense . . . what was it, then?

Reminds me of my Dad's '69 Ford Fairlane circa 1974 . . . when the metallic paint had all oxidized and turned flat.

I'm in the US Great Plains. My '17 94Ah with REX shows about 120 miles in mild weather. Mild weather is relative, and I don't usually turn off the HVAC but for about 10-15 days per year. When it's cold, 88 miles on a fully charged battery.

Well, home charging is gonna be the biggest challenge in your situation, IMO. If you're dealing with a distance from the outlet to the EVSE of 100 feet, you'll want to check the rated current capacity carefully ahead of time, and expect it to be considerably (physically) heavier and more...

If your battery died tomorrow, what would you pay to be able to snap your fingers and have a new one installed yesterday? I bet wrong, don't be me.

How did you determine this?

I checked the math and physics and it's not worth it on the roof of a car. (Just don't tell an Aptera fanboi, because them's fighting words.) Much better return if one can mount solar on top of whatever the car shelters under.

It's sometimes impossible to determine what a German means by their words alone. Even a simple checkbox in a configuration only means "check this box once, and once only mein leibschen, after vich vee schall szee" and not like checked and done that the rest of the world might assume when...

I see new data from 8:42PM CDT on 09/28/24, so BMW server for North America is back online

I don't have any new data in my HomeAssistant logs since 7:13 AM CDT yesterday, so in metric time BMW servers (at least North America) have been MIA since around 12:13 UTC on September 27. edited because typing is hard!

I've got some favorite radio stations assigned, of course, but #1 is "call wife" and #8 is "navigate home". The only other interesting one is for the stability/traction control selection, so I can switch modes a little more quickly when approaching a slippery slope in winter. I guess I set that...

Well, you'd do it at night . . .

I'd say rpcmac's figure works out to more like 100 . . .

Squirrels found coolant pump wiring delicious on mine. :(

I hope the dealer tried the easy stuff like checking the 12V battery before going on that quest.

I like to listen to my own music in the car, but I've never used any Apple app stuff which is what I thought you were asking about. I've got the HK sound system and I just copy the files to the on-board HDD off any old USB drive whenever I think of something else to add.

I uploaded some classical music in flac format into the entertainment system, which I understand voids warranties.

I LOLd at this great story!

I don't know if this is a new thing, an international thing, an EV-specific battery thing, or a regional thing, but I've never bought a new battery that couldn't be dropped into a car and immediately turn over the engine. That woulda sucked too, because almost every replacement was a result of a...