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Think of election polling. You don't have to sample the whole population to get an accurate pulse of what's on people's minds. There are about 174 million registered voters in the U.S., yet polls that are accurate within a few percent are obtained from samples of 1,000 to a few thousand...

As requested before, I'm sure Home Integration System owners like me would very much appreciate an update on any progress toward making it to work reliably as an automatic home backup system, as originally promised in the debut of the Lightning. Especially given the cost of having it installed...

I don't know anything really about the handshake protocol between the truck and the FCSP in initiating backup power transfer, but, at least for my system, that seems to be the problem in initiating automatic backup transfer. The unplug/replug sequence probably wakes the truck up and causes the...

In September 2025, I conducted a series of tests to determine the necessary conditions for automatic backup power transfer to function reliably with the Home Integration System. Couldn't figure it out. Manual transfer worked at least 90% of the time, except on a few occasions when I figured...

Got the update on 10/6/25. Interesting that, as installed, the horn honk was off by default. I get FP notifications on my iPhone and Apple Watch if the truck is unlocked when I walk away, none if it is locked. When I park in my garage and have the frunk open to trickle charge my 12V battery...

My Anything Else You'd Like Us to Know response to the survey: Ford always asks in surveys how much an owner trusts Ford and is willing to recommend Ford. The onus always seems to be placed on the Ford representative with whom one interacts, when that person may have little knowledge and...

Relative to your quote above, this might be why Ford fixing the Home Integration System is a "difficult problem in computer science...." Your BlueCruise 1.4 explanation is great, Brian. If possible, could you find out from the Powers That Be what's going on with fixing the Home Integration...

Request to Google 2.5 Flash: Can you create an image of a 2023 F-150 Oxford White Ford Lightning Lariat that has an image of something that looks like Donkey Kong maniacally gripping the wheel in the driver's seat, and a Pauline-like figure sitting or standing in the front passenger's seat...

I got this update in the early AM as I was testing backup power transfer with the Home Integration System. I learned an interesting thing. Backup power transfer (BPT) was not working when it had been just a little earlier for me. I decided to get in the truck and try a manual BPT via the...

Here's what ChatGPT replied much earlier in the day as to how GPD problems in the ESS RS485 connection could indirectly affect truck/FCSP handshaking. I always mistrust AI advice from any source. I've found it can be flagrantly wrong but often it at least points me in the right general...

Google Gemini and ChatGPT 5 have some very interesting things to say about this. They both agree that lifting the orange RS485 ground wire is a good idea, as it removes a shared ground between the truck and FCSP, which can be a source of problems if there's a Ground Potential Difference (GPD)...

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...