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I look forward to onboarding the Ford Focus 2021. It’s the same platform (Ford C2) as the Escape/Kuga, Bronco Sport and I believe Maverick.

I’ve been driving with Sidecar running and an OBD2 scanner for a couple of days now. The “State” widget fluctuates wildly which doesn’t make sense, but I think I figured out why. The state widget is taking the fuel level connectable (“FLI”). When I watch the fuel level data I see it fluctuates as I accelerate, brake and corner - probably the fuel sloshing around?
Does this figure need to be averaged over time perhaps? The fuel gauge itself doesn’t move like this.

Which version of Sidecar are you on? You can check in Sidecar's Settings > About page. Fuel level smoothing was added in v2.2.* so it should be more stable, but if you're still seeing wild fluctuations then we might need to tune this behavior a bit more.

Hi @jeff
Sorry for the delay - I’ll turn on post notifications. I am on 2.2.2 build 402 now. I drove today and it actually seemed a whole lot more reasonable with mostly very small fluctuations but I did notice it went up to 100% when driving down a long slow hill and stayed at 100% till on flat ground again.
I’ll send you the logs.
Thanks again.