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> After signing in, get started and provide your legal business details, app name, description and purpose of usage. That's an annoying amount of work if you j
by peoplearepeople 3y ago
> After signing in, get started and provide your legal business details, app name, description and purpose of usage.
That's an annoying amount of work if you just want to access your own car
- mezeek 3y agothen... just use the Tesla app?
- riddley 3y agoThere's some FOSS called TeslaMate that piggy backs on credentials you can steal from your Tesla app. It monitors and records all manner of statistics for whatever purpose you choose. It can also integrate with Home Assistant and all of the wonderful things it can do. The Tesla app shows a tiny amount of information in comparison and none of it is actionable by automations I write.
- ejlxsh 3y agoAutomotive software is a regulated space, there's no way the idea of these APIs is developers tinkering with their Tesla for fun (it allows remote execution!) but rather large businesses integrating their apps with Tesla, like Microsoft or OpenAI or something.
- stcredzero 3y agoSomeone could start a business to enable such tinkering. However, that doesn’t seem like a profitable business to be in at all. Potential downsides seem huge, and potential upside seems tiny.
- DennisP 3y agoOr fleet owners. The docs have a lot of stuff useful for fleets.