Nissan is Either Ending Free Remote Access or Wants You to Pay Them Anyway

[Stanton]

Hills block my cell signal at home, so remote connect is essentially useless. Too bad no third party monitoring for newer Leafs...

Are you saying you have no cell service at your house? In that case, it doesn't matter what "app" you use.
Where do you live?

[fester]

South Central Ohio, in a valley. No signal here that usable. By third party, I was referring to say something like OVMS which works for older Leafs, but not a recent year like my 22' SV+. Be nice but that's the way it is. As far as cell signal here, I can get cell over Wify, but the Leaf needs a "real" cell signal to work.

[knightmb]

South Central Ohio, in a valley. No signal here that usable. By third party, I was referring to say something like OVMS which works for older Leafs, but not a recent year like my 22' SV+. Be nice but that's the way it is. As far as cell signal here, I can get cell over Wify, but the Leaf needs a "real" cell signal to work.

If you have Internet at your home, get a MicroCell that supports 4G and the Leaf should be able to relay off of that.

[Learjet]

South Central Ohio, in a valley. No signal here that usable. By third party, I was referring to say something like OVMS which works for older Leafs, but not a recent year like my 22' SV+. Be nice but that's the way it is. As far as cell signal here, I can get cell over Wify, but the Leaf needs a "real" cell signal to work.

If you have Internet at your home, get a MicroCell that supports 4G and the Leaf should be able to relay off of that.

Or...get up and go to car

[knightmb]

Or...get up and go to car

[fester]

MicroCell might be useful, "cell boosters" I tried briefly quite a while ago...would work fine with a 500' tower, otherwise not so much with hills of 500' around here. "Go to car" works fine this year. Last year had two total knee replacements (not both at once, not that big into PAIN .)

[LeftieBiker]

Today, while waiting for my housemate and one of our feral cats at the veterinarians' office, I finally contacted the Nissan EV line about not having remote access to my car since June 15. I can live without remote A/C access, but I often need to get heat remotely in Winter. I got a nice, helpful woman who went into my account, did some other research in their system, and then announced to me that I didn't have remote access because Nissan had (paraphrase here) 'Ended it for '21 and up SV and SL Leafs on June 13.' Surprised and indignant, I told her that if that had happened I would have read something about it on this site, because that many Leaf drivers wouldn't have kept silent about losing climate control access completely and permanently. She was insistent, so at that point I ended the call.
Having promised to send me information via email, she apparently sent me a link to a search feature for recall notices.

Ok, drivers of '21. '22 and '23 Leafs, is there any truth to this..?

[knightmb]

Today, while waiting for my housemate and one of our feral cats at the veterinarians' office, I finally contacted the Nissan EV line about not having remote access to my car since June 15. I can live without remote A/C access, but I often need to get heat remotely in Winter. I got a nice, helpful woman who went into my account, did some other research in their system, and then announced to me that I didn't have remote access because Nissan had (paraphrase here) 'Ended it for '21 and up SV and SL Leafs on June 13.' Surprised and indignant, I told her that if that had happened I would have read something about it on this site, because that many Leaf drivers wouldn't have kept silent about losing climate control access completely and permanently. She was insistent, so at that point I ended the call.
Having promised to send me information via email, she apparently sent me a link to a search feature for recall notices.

Ok, drivers of '21. '22 and '23 Leafs, is there any truth to this..?

Sounds like the agent got her facts mixed up as I'm sure the radios going dark for 3G is what killed all the remote access for any Leaf without the 4G radio set. Here are screenshots today from both our 2018 and 2020 just a few minutes ago, everything seems to work fine. Why would they kill that for the 2021 and later models but leave ours alone?

My wife's 2018 Leaf


My 2020 Leaf

[LeftieBiker]

She did say that our 2020 would be unaffected.

I'm strongly inclinded to believe that this is BS, but why would they have helpline agents reading fake announcements from Nissan...???

[knightmb]

She did say that our 2020 would be unaffected.

I'm strongly inclinded to believe that this is BS, but why would they have helpline agents reading fake announcements from Nissan...???

If it is true, I have been unable to find any announcements from Nissan. No complaints on other areas of the Internet with Leaf drivers asking or complaining about losing access all of a sudden on their brand new Leaf, etc. I'll give Nissan support a call as well to ask and see if I get the same story. Like you said, if access was just dumped all of sudden, we would see complaints all over the web (Reddit, Facebook, here!)