Type of Built-in Communications Equipment

[eplantz]

Does anyone know the type of communication gear used to communicate with Entunes???

Does it use AT&T?? Is it 2G, 3G or 4G????


is there a separate communication system to contact Tesla??? What are the specs????

Thanks

 

[miimura]

I believe the only cellular communications in the RAV4 EV are in the Tesla Gateway ECU. It contains an AT&T SIM card. I don't know what radio technology (2G/3G/4G) it uses. I would assume 3G since AT&T has known for a long time that it would shut down 2G, which has already started.

 

[fooljoe]

You think so? I would expect Tesla to have their own separate communication system from what Toyota/Entune uses. Entune/Safety Connect is used by other Toyota cars as well, so whatever communications module is used in cars like the Plug-in Prius is probably used in the Rav as well.

 

[TonyWilliams]

You think so? I would expect Tesla to have their own separate communication system from what Toyota/Entune uses. Entune/Safety Connect is used by other Toyota cars as well, so whatever communications module is used in cars like the Plug-in Prius is probably used in the Rav as well.

Yes, of course, the Entunes goes through a different connection than the Tesla / AT&T phone in the rear of the car.

 

[n3ckf]

i'm pretty sure it's AT&T since it just barely works at my house in the Mountains. Verizon and Tmobile dont work here *at all* (ie. within 10 miles), with AT&T you can kind-of-sometimes get a data connection (my auto-start generator has an AT&T card in it too, it only started working reliably in the last year when AT&T put up a new tower about 6 or 7 miles from here.

 

[zebe]

Shame you have to pay for a cellular data plan (Entune/SafetyConnect) just to access the car's pre-climate control feature. It'd be awesome to hack in a Wi-Fi antenna to the car, since I do 99% of my charging either at home in my garage or within range of my office's Wi-Fi. That's really all I need for flipping on pre-climate.

 

[Davidew98]

For historical insight for those doing research! The Tesla Gateway, while tesla was partnered with Toyota, had a cell connection back to the Tesla Mothership and I think it also had GPS. The Toyota Safety Connect had it's own computer under the gearshift which had its own cell modem to connect to safety connect and entune remote features. Entune audio features connected via Bluetooth to the head unit and used the internet from the phone. The head unit navigation traffic, sports, and weather data all came from Sirius XM.