nanuq said:
Forgive me if this has been asked before - I searched but didn't find it.
I have my carwings setup to text me notifications, but it doesn't seem to work. I checked my phone number is correct and have the correct wireless carrier selected. Is there something else I need to do - say set something in the car itself? I tested and it will send me an email, it just won't send me a text. I'd prefer the text message.
You do have to enable both Carwings (on the web) and in the car to get the text messages to work, and even then not all of the text messages you would expect seem to work (in particular when charging starts because of a timer you don't get that, although you DO get one when you manually start charging from your phone). To set it up in the car you need to go to MENU->CARWINGS->CARWINGS Settings->Charging Messages and from there you can adjust your settings to send charging status to CARWINGS so it can text you. Specifically Send Charging status to Data Center and Send Unplugged status to Data Center need to be turned on. Charging Status allows the car to send when it's been unplugged or charging has otherwise completed to CARWINGS, and theoretically when charging has started, but this doesn't appear to work.
Unplugged Status is for when you are in the vicinity of a charging station and you forget to plug in. But even that is not quite enough. The first item on that menu: Saved locations for unplugged messages needs to be set up as well. If you go to that item you can add new locations where the "not plugged in" text messages should be enabled if you want the reminder notices to be sent if you forget to plug in. So for example you need to add your home charging station location to this list.