Forget Fordpass

The Fordpass App requires you to put in a pin and tell it you are not driving and takes forever to issue commands to your vehicle. This little nugget of code talks to the APIs and makes starting/stoping the engine and locking/unlocking the doors super easy.

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An awesome developer has forked this and made a version for using with AWS Lambda. Find it here: https://github.com/swamplynx/ffpass-lambda

TL:DR

UPDATE: I have moved the majority of the backend code to an NPM Module ffpass

The code requires several environment variables to set for it to work:

export FORD_USERNAME="<your fordpass username>"
export FORD_PASSWORD="<your fordpass password>"
export VIN="<your vehicle VIN number>"
export GEOCODE_PROVIDER="<a geocode provider>" // this is optional, see https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-geocoder#geocoder-providers-in-alphabetical-order for provider options
export GEOCODE_API_KEY="<a geocode provider api key>" // this is optional

Once you have those thing setup you can issue commands and check the status of your vehicle like this:

node index.js --command=status // returns vehicle status information

node index.js --command=status --locate // returns vehicle status information with address from Geocodio

node index.js --command=start // issues engine start command to the vehicle

node index.js --command=stop // issues engine stop command to the vehicle

node index.js --command=lock // issues door lock command to the vehicle

node index.js --command=unlock // issues door unlock command to the vehicle

Purpose

I created this to enable interoperability between my computer and my car. As is allowed by U.S., Section 103(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.