Recent content by Jim Lewis

I don't know what the current state or accessibility of this is, but the FordPass API is/was accessible and was used by people to pipe info about their trucks into Home Assistant. A main problem was accessing the API more frequently than Ford would tolerate and getting locked out of FordPass...

iOS 26 is out today, and there will be a newer, more advanced version of CarPlay coming along. Maybe the FordPass 5.28 update has some relation to the latest version of iOS...

I went on a 3400-mile round trip to London, Ontario and back from San Antonio, TX this summer. I used A Better Route Planner almost all of the way (Google Maps was better on local routes between shops within communities). Most of my travel was around 70 mph. ABRP was spot on with a live data...

Perhaps you jokingly mean that 80% to 90% of deer-related crashes end in fatality for the deer (although I understand there are no good statistics on what happens to the deer involved): Another guesstimate from a different source on what happens to the deer:

The humor is delightful, Maxx, but a very small % of fatal accidents involve deer, probably less than 1% of all fatal accidents (but some may escape being tabulated as deer-related, e.g., someone swerved to avoid a deer, but the deer was not recorded as the initiating cause). Another thing...

Also not taken into consideration is that most heavy drinking probably occurs in the evening or at night. So, will better lighting help you if you're DWI or about to be hit by a DWI driver? See the Crash Stats PDF link above. The rate of fatal alcohol-related crashes is 3x higher at...

Anyone who has any doubts about this, look at the state Ford has left the Home Integration System in (a.k.a. "Whole Home Backup") three years after it debuted as a marquee feature of the Ford Lightning. Still doesn't work reliably and Ford has given no firm indication of when, if ever, they'll...

Yes, my truck may sit for days before I drive it again (I just had an inguinal hernia repair operation and am not supposed to drive for 5 to 7 days, for example). I started trickle charging because of the updates that required >80% SOC to run. Then, according to ChatGPT, keeping the LVB as...

Presumably, those of us who are Home Integration System owners are going to get some software/firmware update(s) to make the system work reliably. Since the problem seems to center around truck/FCSP handshakes, one or both of those still need to be patched or retrofitted with something that...

I didn't have to pay a cent for having it done at my dealer. :rolleyes: I also got a free replacement battery as the update trashed my LVB, probably due to the use of an inadequate power supply. I mentioned trashing the LVB in a follow-up Ford survey, and Ford must have gotten back to the...

The truck is supposed to be able to power the home. Does that mean version 2 of a HIS unit? Hopefully those of us with HIS 01 don't have to wait until 2028 to get a fixed or revised version of HIS that comes out with the new truck... A fix for HIS 01 was rumored to arrive by the end of this...

I have the latest inverter firmware ending in .36 and after the firmware update, I did have to repair the truck and the FCSP. The FCSP is now identified in the IBP app as "Ford Charge Station Pro 1." I repaired my truck and FCSP on 6/16/25...

OK. I didn't understand the context in which you were talking about rebooting the HIS system and wanting to shut down the Dark Start battery. I don't think the truck going to sleep per se is the problem. I've had the truck asleep, simulated an outage plenty by cutting grid power, had the port...

If you get the "M Professional" app, available in the App Store or Google Play, you can shut down the Dark Start battery that powers the inverter during an outage before backup transfer kicks in. Although the M Professional app is a third-party app, it's what Sunrun uses to set up the HIS...

Thanks for the advice, Russell. I got 10.3 on 6/14/25, but apparently, it hasn't had the same effect for me. I do have the inverter firmware ending in .36. What's also strange is that previously there was a period, from about 1/24 through early 4/24, where automatic backup would work and...