evanevery
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Dear Porsche,
I'ld like to be able to use Homelink without having to close the backup camera screen. You see, I need to open the Garage door to back up out of my garage, and I'ld like to be able to also use the Backup Camera without having to go back and forth closing one to access the other. Its all seems so unnecessary and "thoughtless". It might seem trivial, but I have to do this every day, sometimes more than once and it really doesn't have to be this way...
I understand that people who only have ONE garage door in their Homelink Profile can do this via assignment of Homelink to one of the two "User Defined Buttons". It seems like an unnecessary waste of a perfectly good user button, but I would do this if it worked for me. Unfortunately, I have THREE garage doors assigned to my homelink profile. Apparently you had the foresight to automatically "fire" a HomelInk button if only one was in the profile, but not if more than one. If I press my UDB, it does open the Homelink screen, but it is UNDER the backup camera screen which I then need to close. Then after I make my door selection, I must manually re-open the backup camera if I want to use it. This all seems so unecessary. I don't have to do this on my Tesla cause the homelink and backup functions are not in contention. Backing a car out of a garage doesn't seem to be too deep a level of user testing. Didn't anyone test this?
Would it help if I insist this is a safety problem? Its so much easier NOT to manually re-open the backup camera after I close my garage door. Would it help if some child gets run over because it was easier NOT to open the backup camera? There is a reason why all new cars now require backup cameras. Shouldn't they be functional?
I would like to suggest that you provide a firmware update to fix this. While I would like a better solution (like a homelink menu which doesn't contend with a backup camera at all), I'll provide an easier work-around for you to implement.
Simply let us assign a User Defined Button to a specific "door" in a Homelink profile - not the entire Homelink function itself. For those with only one door button, this seems to work. But for those with more than one, it doesn't...
I'll be happy to manage the contention of backup vs homelink screens (if needed) if I can simply get "blind" access to that ONE door button I use most often.
PLEASE?
Ed
I'ld like to be able to use Homelink without having to close the backup camera screen. You see, I need to open the Garage door to back up out of my garage, and I'ld like to be able to also use the Backup Camera without having to go back and forth closing one to access the other. Its all seems so unnecessary and "thoughtless". It might seem trivial, but I have to do this every day, sometimes more than once and it really doesn't have to be this way...
I understand that people who only have ONE garage door in their Homelink Profile can do this via assignment of Homelink to one of the two "User Defined Buttons". It seems like an unnecessary waste of a perfectly good user button, but I would do this if it worked for me. Unfortunately, I have THREE garage doors assigned to my homelink profile. Apparently you had the foresight to automatically "fire" a HomelInk button if only one was in the profile, but not if more than one. If I press my UDB, it does open the Homelink screen, but it is UNDER the backup camera screen which I then need to close. Then after I make my door selection, I must manually re-open the backup camera if I want to use it. This all seems so unecessary. I don't have to do this on my Tesla cause the homelink and backup functions are not in contention. Backing a car out of a garage doesn't seem to be too deep a level of user testing. Didn't anyone test this?
Would it help if I insist this is a safety problem? Its so much easier NOT to manually re-open the backup camera after I close my garage door. Would it help if some child gets run over because it was easier NOT to open the backup camera? There is a reason why all new cars now require backup cameras. Shouldn't they be functional?
I would like to suggest that you provide a firmware update to fix this. While I would like a better solution (like a homelink menu which doesn't contend with a backup camera at all), I'll provide an easier work-around for you to implement.
Simply let us assign a User Defined Button to a specific "door" in a Homelink profile - not the entire Homelink function itself. For those with only one door button, this seems to work. But for those with more than one, it doesn't...
I'll be happy to manage the contention of backup vs homelink screens (if needed) if I can simply get "blind" access to that ONE door button I use most often.
PLEASE?
Ed
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