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Am I understanding this correctly? The car is constantly communicating with BMW's servers?
by keehun 11y ago
Am I understanding this correctly? The car is constantly communicating with BMW's servers?
- edent 11y agoNot quite. The car has a 3G modem which is always on. When the app makes a request to BMW's servers, they forward the request to the car, which then responds. I assume that it probably pushes some days regularly. If the car is out of coverage, the app doesn't get any data back - as far as I can tell.
- vetinari 11y agoI would expect this data to be available only by banging on k- or d-bus, not that it is being uploaded to BMW. I'm getting old...
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAny sensible reason for it, or is it just another case of insane engineering - pushing through cloud stuff that should go through a LAN?
- edent 11y agoIf your vehicle is in a car park, it needs some way to connect to the net. It might make sense to have wifi for home use - but does your network stretch out to your garage?
- Finbarr 11y agoI was at the HackTheDrive event. Part of the data made available was logs from several trips taken in the i3. This included car sensor and location data, pinged every few seconds of the journey. I'm not sure if this is transmitted by default.