Rivian house owners can now watch their EVs remotely

Rivian on Wednesday started rolling out a serious software program replace to house owners of its vans and SUVs, permitting them to remotely verify the onboard cameras on their EVs. The function known as Gear Guard Dwell Cam, and is especially meant to allow you to scope out alarm notifications from the Rivian cellular app for iPhone and Android. You may as well tune into video at any time, nevertheless — say should you’re tenting, and wish to make it possible for bear has lastly wandered away. It is loosely just like the Sentry Mode accessible to Tesla house owners.

The replace contains another notable additions, above all Dynamic Headlamp Leveling. Restricted to Gen 2 fashions onwards, this adjusts your headlights on the fly to take care of secure diffusion, no matter how laborious you are accelerating or braking, or should you’re vibrating on tough terrain. In idea, it ought to eradicate the jittery illumination offroaders are used to at evening.

Rivian has additionally added Tri-Zone HVAC, making it attainable for the driving force, entrance passenger, and rear passengers to have separate heating/AC settings. Folks in rear passenger seats could make temperature changes by way of the rear-mounted show, however just for themselves, not anybody within the entrance — presumably to forestall youngsters from wreaking havoc on their mother and father.

Lastly, a minor change is the presence of recent animations explaining Experience Peak, Brake Regen, Stability, and Experience Really feel settings in Drive Modes. You will see these if you go to alter the related toggles, the concept being that you’re going to higher perceive their results.

How do I get the Rivian software program replace?

You might want some persistence

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Because the rollout is simply simply getting underway, it might take a while to achieve your car. You have to be prompted to put in it in some unspecified time in the future when your Rivian is in Park and linked to the web. You may as well attempt to drive the replace sooner in considered one of two methods:

1. Go to Settings -> Automobile -> Updates in your dashboard show and faucet Replace Now.
2. Within the Rivian cellular app, go to About -> Automobile Software program Settings. If the replace is prepared, you can set off it right here.

You must have the ability to get the replace by way of both Wi-Fi or mobile, with or with out a Join+ subscription, however we suggest utilizing Wi-Fi — it is liable to be sooner and extra secure.