GM onstar car connect questions
We just got a Silverado with the GM hotspot. I have connected to it from the trailer using my Ubiquiti Nanostation connected to either the laptop or a Wifi Ranger Go2 and then two laptops connected to...
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sheltieRV wrote:
I have been using this for about a year on my 16 silverado.
1. Battery (gasser) will run down after a few hours. I now put a trickle charger on it when I know I won't be driving for a few days (we are 3 months at winter location and I only drive about once a week). The trickle charger cannot keep up with the discharge rate, so I am still limited to a few hours (a movie) before giving the charger time to catch up.
2. I manually turn off the headlights (rotate dial counter clockwise all the way), as I found that the system will turn the headlights on if it gets darker and thus run the battery down even more.
3. I also keep a velcro tag on my RV door to remind me that the hub is on.
4. The silverado will start beeping at you when the battery gets low, get tuned into a chime ding and turn off when it happens (the first time I heard this I thought it was my neighbor and not me).
It is a bit of a PITA, but the price, bandwidth, and speed is worth the PITA when RVing.
yes, it is a nice feature. We have verizon for our phones and then the GM hotspot is ATT. So...... between the two if there is a chance of internet, we get it.
Now if there was just a way to have only the hotspot on and program how long that would be nice. Usually we can get done what we want in the 15 minutes or so the hotspot stays active with the key out of the ignition, so that works for us, but would be nice to have that be longer.
