[Ovmsdev] Happy discovered: I3 seems to manage 12v battery charge by itself

[Stephen Casner]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, Greg D. wrote:

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> Stephen Casner wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, Greg D. wrote:
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> >> "On" is the keyswitch position 2, where the car can be driven (contactor is in).
> >> Pushing the keyswitch to the momentary position 3 (ICE "Start") toggles the
> >> Performance driving mode setting. A handy place to put that, I guess.
> > It is necessary to depress the brake and momentarily turn to position
> > 3 to initiate the start-up sequence and put the car into driving mode.
> I was specifically referring to the Roadster (2.x if that matters) for
> this use of switch position 3.  I expect that's another Roadster-unique
> behavior.

I was also referring to the Roadster.  My point was that postition 3
is not just for toggling to Performance mode.

> >> The alternative suggested would be one single enumerated metric to reflect all
> >> the possible states. Something like:
> >>
> >>  *  off
> >>  *  deepsleep
> >>  *  lightsleep
> >>  *  awake
> >>  *  accessory
> >>  *  starting
> >>  *  on
> > The condition that occurs when opening the door could be deepsleep or
> > lightsleep rather than awake.
> Is there an overall description of the various states?  What describes
> the difference between the different sleeps and awake?

That's not defined yet.  I think Mark was making a proposal that would
be rich enough to cover all vehicles, and the states used for each
vehicle would need to be defined.

                                                        -- Steve