How do you turn on battery heater? (Trophy)

[Blair Douglas]

How do you turn battery heater on mg 4 trougphy only had couple months still finding way about got warning temp to low

 

[the briggie]

n the iSmart app, go to Charging Management page. select scheduled charging at the bottom of the app.

here you can schedule a battery heating or start it straight away.
it also notifies if it is not necessary to preheat battery.

 

[the briggie]

Question for the forum re preheat Interior/battery

Scheduled Charge set in car or charger

If you have the car on a scheduled charge (typically 00:30 to 04:30 cheap rate) post the scheduled charge but still plugged in, say 07:30, can you start either preheat using the app?

If yes does it override the schedule and take power from the charger or does it draw from the battery

If no what do you have to do to enable the function?

Secondly during the scheduled charge period does the scheduled battery heating work in tandem?

 

[Deleted member 9692]

Question for the forum re preheat Interior/battery

Scheduled Charge set in car or charger

If you have the car on a scheduled charge (typically 00:30 to 04:30 cheap rate) post the scheduled charge but still plugged in, say 07:30, can you start either preheat using the app?

If yes does it override the schedule and take power from the charger or does it draw from the battery

If no what do you have to do to enable the function?

Secondly during the scheduled charge period does the scheduled battery heating work in tandem?

If you mean the cabin preheat, I cannot enable when plugged in after charge. I get an error on the app, happens every time if plugged in. If I go out, remove the charger and then select pre heat cabin it works. I havent tried pre heating the battery when plugged in, not manually via app anyway, I have that set at 06:15 every morning so I don’t do that manually.

 

[the briggie]

If you mean the cabin preheat, I cannot enable when plugged in after charge. I get an error on the app, happens every time if plugged in. If I go out, remove the charger and then select pre heat cabin it works. I havent tried pre heating the battery when plugged in, not manually via app anyway, I have that set at 06:15 every morning so I don’t do that manually.

So the scheduled battery preheat works at 06:15 ok, drawing power from? Do you know?

In that scenario can you schedule an interior/cabin preheat in the app or is that function not available?

Alan

 

[Deleted member 9692]

So the scheduled battery preheat works at 06:15 ok, drawing power from? Do you know?

In that scenario can you schedule an interior/cabin preheat in the app or is that function not available?

Alan

Let me check that tomorrow morning, I’m plugging in tonight.

 

[tsedge]

Let me check that tomorrow morning, I’m plugging in tonight.

It sounds like there's plenty of scope for improvement here, hopefully there'll be some app updates to make everything work more reliably.

 

[the briggie]

Confirmation, courtesy of siteguru, that MG are aware of preheating cabin not working when charger plug inserted in car but not charging. So it seems it will work off the battery with no cable inserted. Someone care to test for confirmation...no need to wait until morning

 

[tsedge]

Confirmation, courtesy of siteguru, that MG are aware of preheating cabin not working when charger plug inserted in car but not charging. So it seems it will work off the battery with no cable inserted. Someone care to test for confirmation...no need to wait until morning

Aware as in "we will fix it" or aware as in "it does that"?

 

[the briggie]

Aware as in aware and working on it....

 

[Deleted member 9692]

Confirmation, courtesy of siteguru, that MG are aware of preheating cabin not working when charger plug inserted in car but not charging. So it seems it will work off the battery with no cable inserted. Someone care to test for confirmation...no need to wait until morning

My cabin preheating via app works when not plugged in/charging, no issues

 

[tsedge]

Aware as in aware and working on it....

Just seen the message on the other thread. Thanks. That's good news, although they don't seem to be in any great hurry with improvements. But, when some manufacturers are just not fixing stuff at all, I think we should be pleased. The MG app has great potential.

 

[tsedge]

My cabin preheating via app works when not plugged in/charging, no issues

I think this was the plugged-in-and-not-charging case. Unless you are saying yours works in this situation?

 

[Deleted member 9692]

I think this was the plugged-in-and-not-charging case. Unless you are saying yours works in this situation?

I was responding to the question from @the briggie which was:

So it seems it will work off the battery with no cable inserted. Someone care to test for confirmation...no need to wait until morning