{"id":1358,"date":"2018-04-24T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T21:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2018-04-24T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T21:07:43","slug":"adventures-with-keyless-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/adventures-with-keyless-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures with Keyless Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most new cars have keyless entry nowadays.\u00a0 You keep the key fob in your pocket, the car detects it and allows you to unlock the doors and start the car.\u00a0 \u00a0Usually it works fine.\u00a0 Unless the battery in the key fob goes flat.\u00a0 Late at night.\u00a0 In the cold.<\/p>\n<p>So last night, a buddy and I went to the ballpark to watch the Giants beat the Nationals.\u00a0 Seeing that the game was won, we left at the bottom of the 8th to beat the traffic and what not.\u00a0 We get to the car.\u00a0 Doors won&#8217;t open.\u00a0 Pressed the buttons on the fob.\u00a0 No flashing LED.\u00a0 Flat battery!\u00a0 It took us an hour to get into the car using the internet and go through the owner&#8217;s manual to find how to start the car.\u00a0 Instead of having a chapter titled &#8220;In case of dead key fob&#8221;, where instructions on entering and starting the car could be, instructions for entering the car and starting the car were in two different places in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Or we could have just found this video and gotten going in 10 minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KFNn9soBdZI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ah well, learning moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most new cars have keyless entry nowadays.\u00a0 You keep the key fob in your pocket, the car detects it and allows you to unlock the doors and start the car.\u00a0 \u00a0Usually it works fine.\u00a0 Unless the battery in the key fob goes flat.\u00a0 Late at night.\u00a0 In the cold. So last night, a buddy and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/adventures-with-keyless-entry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adventures with Keyless Entry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-lU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}