If it's app-based then it would depend on an Internet connection between the vehicle and Honda servers. Then, your phone would send a message to Honda servers to start your specific vehicle, theoretically from anywhere in the world.

 

I was thinking that but the dealership rep thought it still had to be that the phone was close to car...like within 20 feet or something. I just finally got it working after a month so I haven?t had a chance to test it (had the car since May).

 

I only have the EX-L so I can't tell you for sure. I suppose it's possible they put a geofence on the car and only let your phone be within a certain distance to send the start command from the app.

 

I used ours from inside a hospital and over 1/2 mile away.

 

Yeah there is no proximity requirement for the remote start through the app. Only requirements are the car has to be about to reach a cell tower, you phone like wise needs to be able to connect to the internet and the Honda servers need to be operational. There is quite a lag from the time I hit the remote start button on the app to when the car starts. But I have had it work from miles away before (cooled off the van for the wife because I hadn’t installed the app yet on her phone).


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There is quite a lag from the time I hit the remote start button on the app to when the car starts.

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Yes, the lag with the Hondalink app is incredibly long. Any type of remote command takes a looooong time to get to the car. This is comparing it to the viper cellular remote I had at one time. Honda needs to get more hamsters running in their server to reduce the lag. At the very least I hope Honda Link service is aware of this problem and have a plan to fix it.

Also, I've notice the send address in the hondalink app now blocks after sending a single address. Before, the lag was so long that I would send multiple addresses to the NAV to have then all spew out sometime later. I will have to measure the lag, but it's all over the place but still long.

 

The two times I have tried it it only look about 4-5 seconds which seems reasonable to me. I hear the ignition turn on about .5 second before the car started. But maybe at certain times of the day it is longer. Serisouly..I am just happy it is working. It took like a month of phone calls to get it functional. No one understood what true issue was.

 

Does the App for remote start allow you to drive as well? Essentially what I'm asking is if I forget my key can I use the HondaLink app to start my car and drive it without a key? Or is it just for the heat/AC until you bring the key fob to start the car?

 

You still need the key to drive, so just heat/ac.


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Honda's App also turned on the heated steering wheel when I remote start. Better sweet.. Not sure what temperature it triggers it.

 

Yeah it does the heated and ventilated seats too. And on colder days I think it turns on the defrosters.


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