Friday, August 19, 2011

Multiple Volts per Account

One of the problems with the design of the database has been that one account could only accomodate one Volt.  On the other hand, an Onstar account can have multiple cars attached to it.  I ran into a bug a couple weeks ago where I was picking up data for someone's Traverse instead of their Volt because I was looking at the wrong dataset (15 MPG, 0 EV Miles!).

Anyway, I know some people out there are planning on getting a second Volt, so I've had to update the site to support this.  The refactoring is complete, and it touched almost the entire site, so I'm sure I've introduced some bugs - let me know if you run into any issues.  If you're one of the people getting another Volt, the site should just recognize it when it's added to your Onstar account.   However, I don't have any way to test this, so who knows... :)

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the useful site and keeping it up to date. Though I'm dead last in the MPG standings, as I just got my volt and drove 800+ miles to get it back home, its useful to see how well others are doing. I did think it might be interesting to have a "comment" per user so we could better understand their usage to put their numbers in context.

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  2. That's a good idea, I'll look into it this weekend!

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