This is a project based on teslausb. It is an image meant to be flashed to a Raspberry Pi Zero W which allows the Pi to interface with a Tesla vehicle via USB.
This is a work-in-progress and is not yet usable.
- Exposes a FAT32 USB storage device to the car for dashcam storage
- Allows for archiving dashcam clips to a CIFS (SMB) share when connected to Wi-Fi
- More to come in the future
Prepare a Pi Zero W and a micro SD card (at least 64 GB is recommended, but 32 GB should also work well enough). Using a high endurance SD card wouldn't be a bad idea.
Download the latest image (it's the zip file that starts with image_)
and flash it to the card using a tool like Etcher.
Installing TeslaPi on a pre-flashed OS is not supported at this time. Please use the provided TeslaPi images.
Mount the boot partition of the newly-flashed SD card and rename teslapi_setup.conf.sample to teslapi_setup.conf,
then open it in a text editor. Configure at least everything marked as "REQUIRED". Save the configuration file, dismount
the card, insert it into the Pi, and plug the Pi into power.
Make sure that you're within range of your Wi-Fi network when you first plug the Pi into power. A Wi-Fi connection with Internet access is required to finish setup.
TeslaPi will automatically configure itself using the settings you entered in the configuration file. The LED on the Pi will indicate status during setup:
- On semi-steadily with occasional pulses: Booting up
- One flash: Writing config files
- Steady slow flashes: Waiting for Internet connectivity
- Two flashes: Creating and formatting partitions on the SD card
- Three flashes: Allocating space for the virtual disk
- Four flashes: Converting root filesystem to read-only
- Steady fast flashes: There was a fatal error. Please mount the SD card's boot partition on a computer and examine
teslapi-setup.logfor details.
While TeslaPi is configuring itself, you can SSH into it using USB ethernet. Plug it into your PC via the Pi's USB data port (not its power port) and an ethernet adapter will appear on your PC. USB ethernet is disabled once setup is complete.
The Pi will reboot a couple times automatically during the setup procedure.
You can build your own image from the latest source, if you wish. Follow the instructions in the pi-gen-sources readme.
When TeslaPi has finished setup and is running, the LED will indicate what it's currently doing.
- Steady fast flashes: There was a fatal error and TeslaPi has shut down. Please log into the Pi and check
/mnt/mutable/teslapi-runtime.logto see what went wrong. - Normally off, flashing once: The archive host is unreachable. TeslaPi is exposing the vdisk to the car as a USB drive.
- Normally on, flashing once: TeslaPi has unmounted the vdisk from the car and is archiving clips to the archive host.
- Normally on, flashing twice: TeslaPi has finished archiving, but the archive host is still reachable. TeslaPi is exposing the vdisk to the car as a USB drive. TeslaPi won't try to archive any clips until the archive host becomes unreachable.