Docjonday
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I’ve posted here in the UK forum as hotspot configurations seem to vary regionally in tens of what is and what isn’t possible from country to country.
I’m keen to be able to connect to my car’s hotspot from my phone on account that when the OTA module enters a low power configuration around 6 hours after use, I often lose connectivity between the car and the Porsche server (I’ve been told that local cell signal strength can impinge heavily on the server successfully pinging the car and communicating with it once the OTA module goes into low power mode).
When I first took delivery of the car, I was able to see the vehicle hotspot on my phone’s Wi-fi list. Now into my second month of ownership, despite checking that Wi-fi hotspot in the car is enabled, I fail to see the car’s Wi-fi hotspot in iOS.
I’ve tried to route around this by calling up a QR code for hotspot connection between the car and iOS via attempting to connect the car to my phone’s calendar. However, when I scan the QR code on the PCM, this is recognised by iOS but I receive an error message on screen stating ‘connection error’.
Am I correct in thinking the car’s data package at £19 pm doesn’t need to be enabled for the hotspot to function? Or, is the fact the hotspot is not longer visible owing to 30 days complimentary access to data now having expired? If not the latter, I worry my MY2021 Taycan has a OTA module fault.
I’m keen to be able to connect to my car’s hotspot from my phone on account that when the OTA module enters a low power configuration around 6 hours after use, I often lose connectivity between the car and the Porsche server (I’ve been told that local cell signal strength can impinge heavily on the server successfully pinging the car and communicating with it once the OTA module goes into low power mode).
When I first took delivery of the car, I was able to see the vehicle hotspot on my phone’s Wi-fi list. Now into my second month of ownership, despite checking that Wi-fi hotspot in the car is enabled, I fail to see the car’s Wi-fi hotspot in iOS.
I’ve tried to route around this by calling up a QR code for hotspot connection between the car and iOS via attempting to connect the car to my phone’s calendar. However, when I scan the QR code on the PCM, this is recognised by iOS but I receive an error message on screen stating ‘connection error’.
Am I correct in thinking the car’s data package at £19 pm doesn’t need to be enabled for the hotspot to function? Or, is the fact the hotspot is not longer visible owing to 30 days complimentary access to data now having expired? If not the latter, I worry my MY2021 Taycan has a OTA module fault.
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