Vehicle Sleep

Historically, frequent API calls prevent Tesla vehicles from sleeping, however since firmware 2023.11, API calls do not prevent recent vehicles from sleeping, except Model S and Model X vehicles manufactured before 2021 which have not had their MCU upgrade.

Pre 2021 vehicles

Teslemetry's own servers manage polling for these legacy vehicles, so no special Home Assistant integration version or configuration is required. Vehicle state is checked on a 90 second cadence. Once a vehicle has been inactive (not charging, no user present, no sentry mode) for 15 minutes, Teslemetry rests polling to let the vehicle sleep, initially until the 20 minute mark, then probes once to see whether it's still inactive - if activity resumes, the window resets to the initial 5 minute rest, otherwise the rest period grows by a minute each cycle (capped at 15 minutes) and the process repeats.

2021 vehicles and newer

The only thing that will keep your vehicle away is running commands, so if you find your vehicle is not sleeping (see status entity), check that you do not have automation running commands.

Fleet Telemetry

Fleet Telemetry will not impact your vehicles sleep at all, in fact it is the most reliable way of determining if a vehicle is asleep or awake as it does not require constant polling.