XM Guardian Only Way to Get App Remote Start? Overpriced...

[WolfHunter1043]

Help me if I am wrong please! My one year trials of everything expired including XM Guardian. It appears the only way to get remote start via the app is by paying the $149 annually or $14.99 monthly??

On our GMC we got 5 year access to the apps remote start. Uconnect access is CRAZY expensive in my opinion if this is correct... Anyone know of a cheaper way to get it, that's all I want. I mean you can get XM Radio for $5 a month

 

[Maconi]

The remote start app is free for GMC isn't it? They have way more info available in their app as well (info that the 12" Uconnect lacks and the 8" Uconnect has some of).

 

[DakotaRam]

GMC was free for 10 years ownership, now their charging $15.00/month as of the last couple years.

 

[Roddog2220]

i didnt renew it on mine, yes 15 a month is ridiculous

 

[50Front]

I never got my to work. The app can find the truck on the map but that was it. So obviously i didn't renew. I had a 15 Sierra, the app worked great, very fast and was free for 5 years.

 

[Tones1975]

Help me if I am wrong please! My one year trials of everything expired including XM Guardian. It appears the only way to get remote start via the app is by paying the $149 annually or $14.99 monthly??

On our GMC we got 5 year access to the apps remote start. Uconnect access is CRAZY expensive in my opinion if this is correct... Anyone know of a cheaper way to get it, that's all I want. I mean you can get XM Radio for $5 a month

My uconnect app is sooo unreliable that I wouldn't even think about paying ANY monthly fee for it. I like the idea of the app based remote start and unlocking the doors but I've had 50% failure rate on any commands sent from the app.

 

[derp]

I've been working on rebuilding the remote start features using a raspi and the onboard cellular for a bit now. more news to come.

 

[Tones1975]

I've been working on rebuilding the remote start features using a raspi and the onboard cellular for a bit now. more news to come.

That sounds interesting. How would that work?

 

[derp]

That sounds interesting. How would that work?

always on raspberry pi attached to the CAN bus.

the raspi does the things I want and every interval of X will wake up the onboard cellular to check a page on a private web server. if the value on the private web server is set to on, do a remote start diag procedure on the CAN bus just like you would otherwise with your fob.

The original core concept is to pull telemetry off the CAN while the truck is about and upload it to the private server along with DVR footage of the cameras. Once you are on the CAN bus though you can start doing all kinds of diagnostic procedures in the same way the TASER DT does. I'm still a fair bit away from this but the actual programming part is pretty cut and dry. the hard stuff has been getting a CAN adapter for the pi that I really like so I can skip using a bluetooth OBD adapter. I also have to be very mindful of the truck battery and not add a large parasitic loss or damage the truck's electrical system. For isolation I have been using a USBC 30ah battery pack to power the pi that charges when I run the truck. the problem here is that the charge rate on my short driving commute is not enough to match the discharge rate of my long drives. This starts to ripple out into other ideas like a full secondary battery for the truck which has a great ratio of charge/discharge, but also is a very big expense to the project. For my use it will be worth it, but it isn't very commercially viable.