padamson1
Well-known member
1. I don't have the GreenCharge App, but I did take a look at it & have understanding of how it was designed to work.
2. I don't work for Nissan.
Given that at most only 50 or so GreenCharge Apps could be running I am having a hard time blaming them for this outage. While not for this long a period, CarWings has gone down on its own several times since I've had my LEAF. At best I attribute this outage as pure coincidence, but at worst it shows that CarWings has a serious problem in how it processes user requests. If I so desired I could write a nasty App that basically performed a DoS (Denial of Service) attack on CarWings using their API, but given the power of a processor on a phone and the low data bandwidth of a phone connection, it should take a hell of a lot more than 50 installed programs to take down a server. BTW - While the source of the problem is determined if you have a GreenCharge App you might want to shut it down on your iPhone b/c it could be chewing up your data budget (see this: http://www.theiphonemom.com/how-to-turn-off-apps)
If (in the VERY unlikely event) GreenCharge managed to take down CarWings, we should thank GreenCharge for exposing some lousy QA on the part of Nissan, because this problem just would have happened later when more LEAF owners started using CarWings when there would have been a whole lot more LEAF owners inconvenienced by it.
EDIT: But As I stated I sincerely doubt they are the root cause of the problem.
2. I don't work for Nissan.
Given that at most only 50 or so GreenCharge Apps could be running I am having a hard time blaming them for this outage. While not for this long a period, CarWings has gone down on its own several times since I've had my LEAF. At best I attribute this outage as pure coincidence, but at worst it shows that CarWings has a serious problem in how it processes user requests. If I so desired I could write a nasty App that basically performed a DoS (Denial of Service) attack on CarWings using their API, but given the power of a processor on a phone and the low data bandwidth of a phone connection, it should take a hell of a lot more than 50 installed programs to take down a server. BTW - While the source of the problem is determined if you have a GreenCharge App you might want to shut it down on your iPhone b/c it could be chewing up your data budget (see this: http://www.theiphonemom.com/how-to-turn-off-apps)
If (in the VERY unlikely event) GreenCharge managed to take down CarWings, we should thank GreenCharge for exposing some lousy QA on the part of Nissan, because this problem just would have happened later when more LEAF owners started using CarWings when there would have been a whole lot more LEAF owners inconvenienced by it.
EDIT: But As I stated I sincerely doubt they are the root cause of the problem.