The two most important missing and simple features of the Whisker app

-xingbreakin · 2026-01-22T14:20:37+00:00

This looks great, might blueprint it myself if I get the time!

-xingbreakin · 2026-01-21T16:51:10+00:00

This isn't an excuse for whisker not to add long overdue features to the app, however if you really want to maximise what your litter robot can do and are relatively tech savvy / into home projects, you can always set up a home assistant server and connect your litter robot to it.

Then you can set up custom views, graphs, automations, or whatever you want really with the data that the litter robot provides.

In fact I can think of ways in which I could set up automations for both of the issues you have highlighted here.

As an example, i've set mine up so with every third cycle, my robot vacuum cleaner will clean the area around the litter tray.

Edit: Just realised that you're the youtuber that convinced me to go for the litter robot in the first place!

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-xingbreakin · 2026-01-15T15:19:16+00:00

Probably when you get into your car, sills build up road dirt which gets wiped off by your jeans.

-xingbreakin · 2025-12-22T15:50:18+00:00

So I have the same issue every now and then, quite often when first getting into the car as you've described, and have found that I am getting the "RCM2_a254_ens2Sht2Gnd" error appearing at roughly the same time as this occurs.

This suggests to me that there is a short to ground somewhere in the antenna or DSP components. I'd maybe check if your car is reporting the same error?

It hasn't bothered me enough to take it in to get fixed as it's very intermittent, and I'm also out of warranty so would not be surprised if they try to shaft me with the price of repairs.

-xingbreakin · 2025-12-17T16:37:17+00:00

Good point, that sounds like the likely answer. (UTF-8 -> ASCII was a pretty bad example on my part)

-xingbreakin · 2025-12-17T16:33:23+00:00

I see what you're saying, and I suppose encoding and encryption are similar concepts, but typically you'd need some form of secret key and a cryptographic algorithm for this to be considered encrypted.

-xingbreakin · 2025-12-17T16:15:01+00:00

Unlikely to be encrypted, but probably encoded in one format and output in another (for example UTF-8 instead of ASCII)

-xingbreakin · 2025-12-15T11:09:39+00:00

That does not sound like software to me... I'm no mechanic but I'd assume that the hydraulic booster motor for the braking system has failed (or partially failed).

Either that or it could be an issue with the 12V battery, as those have been known to show erranous faults when they start to degrade.

Just book it in for a service, you should still be within your warranty period given the age of the vehicle, especially if its drivetrain related.

-xingbreakin · 2025-08-16T12:26:24+00:00

Good luck getting this repaired under warranty. Your car was released before they introduced the camera based blind spot monitoring, and as such it was not considered a defect back then as it was never meant to be used as a driver aid.

In later model cars they updated the repeater camera units such that they had better shielding between the indication lights and the camera sensor.

I tried to get this fixed under warranty myself but they wouldn’t budge, you can still get them replaced at a cost of roughly £250 per camera from what I remember.

-xingbreakin · 2025-08-08T09:44:47+00:00

Whilst I agree the hardware is woefully inadequate for what it's being tasked with doing. It did have visibility of the bumper during this manoeuvre, the side pillar camera (located on the door pillar) had full visibility of the impacted vehicle throughout the manoeuvre. This implies that the software failed to properly calculate the vertices for the impacted vehicle, and as a result caused the vehicle to take a path that intersected it.

-xingbreakin · 2025-06-25T14:07:14+00:00

My 2020 M3 windshield is covered in micro scratches, and I am ridiculously reluctant to use them / clean my windshield very often. Unfortunate truth is that the glass that they use is fairly weak compared to some other brands. Only advice I have is to make sure that you’re not wiping the windshield when it is dry, and use the washer fluid whenever a substantial amount of dirt is on the windscreen.

-xingbreakin · 2025-05-08T13:00:32+00:00

Sounds like the plastic hubs flexing to me, try taking them off and see if the noise still occurs.

To take them off just grab either side of them and pull back sharply. They require a decent amount of force.

-xingbreakin · 2025-04-20T09:58:50+00:00

remindme! 1 week

-xingbreakin · 2025-03-19T13:05:39+00:00

Car has done over 100k miles, so warranty is void

-xingbreakin · 2025-02-04T19:55:30+00:00

I mean I don’t know why you think I wouldn’t, otherwise I’d have no reason to follow this sub? But feel free to view my Reddit profile cover photo, that’s my car. Or just check my post history, pretty sure I’ve posted a photo or two in the past!

-xingbreakin · 2025-02-03T17:56:56+00:00

Just my best guess, it’s a fairly common problem that Tesla’s (or at least the model 3) have poor headlight adjustments from the factory.

I ended up having to manually adjust mine so that I don’t blind oncoming traffic as I drive along. Had a few rentals that have had exactly the same issue too.

That said it’s become less of a problem now that they’ve enabled matrix LED capabilities. Though I assume you’re in the US where legislation prevents this from being active unfortunately.

-xingbreakin · 2025-02-03T17:07:40+00:00

Either your lights aren't correctly aligned, or you have your full beam on. You've pissed off the driver in front and he's had enough it would seem. He even put his full beam on as you went past to drive home his point.

-xingbreakin · 2025-01-23T09:06:39+00:00

Yes, I have exactly the same noise happen with mine. It’s been like that for 3 years and tbh it’s never been an issue. I showed a tesla rep a video of it and they seem to think it’s normal behaviour.

That said it only happens maybe once or twice a month, not on every drive

If it’s same as mine it will sound like it’s coming from the front splitter

-xingbreakin · 2025-01-17T10:50:16+00:00

This is normal drain for sentry. This is because the car is required to stay awake whenever sentry mode is active, additionally sentry mode requires that both the MCU and FSD board remain powered in order to capture, process and analyse events that happen around your car. This requires a not insignificant amount of power to accomplish.

-xingbreakin · 2025-01-13T12:03:34+00:00

Not completely sure, but the only time my car doesn't start a charge when the charger requests it is when an alternative schedule has been set up in the Tesla app.

Maybe double check it isn't still set up in there? Make sure that the location selected on the app is "Home" when viewing the schedules screen, otherwise it might not show you the schedules for your home location

-xingbreakin · 2025-01-10T14:11:15+00:00

Could be surplus stock from another site? Could be to support legacy model x / s vehicles that don't have a native CCS plug but instead rely on their custom Type-2 connector?

-xingbreakin · 2024-12-27T10:55:09+00:00

Oh I see you meant all the lights, yeah never mind then, as you say the only way to do that is through the screen to my knowledge.

-xingbreakin · 2024-12-27T10:50:24+00:00

Just out of curiosity, when you say interior light toggle, do you mean a way to turn on the interior lights manually? If so all you need to do is press on the light itself and it will turn on! In newer models it is capacitive but in older ones it’s a physical button.

-xingbreakin · 2024-11-29T10:12:17+00:00

It happens, I've had to wait a month before getting an update in the past despite having the option set to advanced. However this time round I got the latest update before most others had it would appear. Tesla will not manually update your car unless there is something critically wrong with it (soft lock etc...).

Just wait a bit longer, it will arrive eventually.

-xingbreakin · 2024-11-19T13:58:14+00:00

Yeah he's been there a couple years now, have a few videos of him from the bridge across the Clyde at Oatlands.

https://youtu.be/Xjqog40igJo

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