Surprisingly Normal

01/29/2019

SenseEV is available on the Apple App Store!

Manage Tesla vehicle departure times from convenient iOS and watchOS apps. The SenseEV user interface is streamlined to provide access to the most important aspects of every departure: time, temperature, and vehicle. You can even start a departure with Siri.

SenseEV attempts to begin climate control fifteen minutes before a departure. Contacting the Tesla API and waking the car is handled by SenseEV servers, including automatically retrying as necessary. When climate control starts a notification is sent to iOS and watchOS devices.

Recurring departure schedules for Tesla

11/06/2017

We released our latest app, MathPract. This is the Student edition.

11/06/2017

We released our latest app, MathPract. This is the Teacher edition.

10/13/2017

When paired with proper approaches, screens enhance learning. We're building apps to put this into practice in classrooms.

We check our phones upwards of 50 times per day -- but when our kids play around with them, we get nervous. Are screens ruining childhood? Not according to children's media expert Sara DeWitt. In a talk that may make you feel a bit less guilty about passing your phone to a bored kid at a restaurant,...

05/13/2017

Some of you probably noticed the My Mercedes Electric (US-only) website outage. At the time I'm writing this the outage has been going for more than 24 hours. I can't do anything about the outage, but I can point you to a status page. I built this page so MyB users can figure out why their statuses might not be updating (i.e., a website outage). Of course, knowing that there is a Mercedes-Benz outage could be useful even for those not using MyB.

http://www.surprisinglynormal.com/myb/status.html

The status page automatically updates every 5 minutes.

Monitor connectivity to Mercedes-Benz website

03/09/2017

MyB is available on the App Store!