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.
If you find this useful let me know on Twitter. @d4v3y0rk
An awesome developer has forked this and made a version for using with AWS Lambda.
Find it here: https://github.com/swamplynx/ffpass-lambda
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 MAPS_API_KEY="<a geocodio maps 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
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.