On the road

Three instincts that only matter once you are moving. All of them need to know something about where the van is or how fast it is going.

Drive mode when moving

This is the one instinct that changes the van rather than telling you about it. Set off and it picks Drive for you; come to a stop and it puts you back in Parked.

Sensa knows you are moving from either of two things, whichever it has: road speed from an OBD2 adapter, or how far the van has travelled from where it last came to rest. Either on its own is enough, so a van with no adapter still works.

Shuffling the van about does not count as setting off. Drive is chosen when you have held a real road speed for a while, or when you have got a fair distance from where you parked. Reversing off the drive and turning round satisfies neither. Coming to a stop is a stop only after five minutes of barely moving, so a fuel stop or a queue at a junction is not an arrival.

It will not overrule you. Moving is something Sensa can actually see, so setting off picks Drive whatever the van was in. Stopping is only the absence of movement, so Parked is chosen only if you were still in Drive. If you picked Sleep or Sentry partway through the journey, pulling up leaves you in it.

It does not fire when your system restarts. Whatever mode you were in comes back, rather than the van deciding from what it was doing before the restart.

Settings: Counts as moving above 10 mph, range 3 to 60. Held at that speed for 60 s, range 15 to 600. Or once this far from where it parked, 500 m, range 100 to 5000. Counts as stopped after 300 s, range 60 to 1800. Back to Parked when stopped, on by default. Change any of them and the next check uses your new figure.

Default: a line in the Log. There is no Alert option, because an alarm that re-sounds until you snooze it while the van is being driven would be nothing but noise.

You need: an OBD2 adapter or a GPS source.

Low fuel near a station

Fuel getting low and a filling station within reach on your route. Both have to be true at the same time. The station comes from Sensa Radar, see Navigation and tracking.

The thresholds currently ship at test values, fuel below 99% and a station within 10 miles, so that the link to Radar can be proven in the field. Expect the defaults to drop before general release. In the meantime, set your own figures if it speaks up more often than you would like.

Settings: Station within 10 mi, range 1 to 50. Fuel below 99%, range 5 to 99.

Default: Alert.

You need: a vehicle fuel level sensor, typically from a WiCAN OBD2 adapter, and Sensa Radar.

This is the one instinct that needs a connection, because the nearest station is looked up online, and its row carries a small globe to say so. Out of signal it simply waits, and your fuel reading itself carries on as normal. See The markers on a row.

Schengen days

Sensa counts your days inside the Schengen area against the 90 in 180 rule and warns you as you approach the limit.

This one is not in the Instincts tab and has nothing to configure. It is always on, and it only speaks when three things are true at once: tracking is enabled, the van is currently inside the area, and you have 10 or fewer of your 90 days left. While that remains the case it warns at most once a day. The message tells you how many days remain and, where it can work it out, the date you would need to leave by.

The counter is there to help you plan. It does not replace official border records, and you remain responsible for staying within the rules. The full day-by-day view lives on the Schengen tab, see Intelligence.

Settings: none.

Default: a warning in the Log.

You need: a vehicle GPS source, such as the router's GPS.