tesla-client

A collection of Firebase Cloud functions to report the car status using Tesla Unofficial API

I set up this repo with my Raspberry Pi as a cronjob to report the status of the vehicle very 30 minutes.

Installation

(Replace /home/pi/tesla-client to your installation folder)

1. Clone this repository

   git clone https://github.com/aduyng/tesla-client.git /home/pi/tesla-client

2. Install dependencies

   cd /home/pi/tesla-client
   [sudo] npm install forever --global
   npm install --production

3. Follow the instruction here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup to set up your firebase project and obtain the parameters for initializeApp(). Download the service account JSON file and save it to /home/pi/tesla-client/private/firebase-service-account-key.json
4. Enter environment variables in /home/pi/tesla-client/.env

   TESLA_CLIENT_ID=<the tesla client id as instructed here https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/api-basics/authentication>
   TESLA_CLIENT_SECRET=<the tesla client secret>
   TESLA_ACCOUNT_USERNAME=<owner email address>
   TESLA_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD=<owner password>
   FIREBASE_API_KEY=<firebase apiKey>
   FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=<firebase authDomain>
   FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL=<firebase databaseURL>
   FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=<firebase projectId>
   FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET=<firebase storageBucket>
   FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=<firebase messagingSenderId>
   FIREBASE_APP_ID=<firebase appId>
   GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/home/pi/tesla-client/private/firebase-service-account-key.json
   CRON_SCHEDULE="*/5 * * * *"

5. Start with forever

forever start /home/pi/tesla-client/forever.json

Development

Run npm run dev to start the development