Jeepstatus.com will report to you the status of a Jeep whose information is found in the Chrysler VOTS (Vehicle Order Tracking System). The VOTS only reports on a very broad level which stage your jeep is at in production. In fact, it quite often is wrong. The underlying data actually exposes more information, if you can decipher what the status codes mean. Thanks to some great Chrysler dealers, we can.
Chrysler's VOTS relies on asyncronous calls to an address that returns an invalid, but close, JSON response. By highjacking the async call and performing a lookup on an array, we can get a more specific explanation of where the vehicle is actually reported as being.
This service is built on Slim Framework with the addition of Slim Extras, Twig for templating, and Predis for caching in a redis server.
You should install the components via composer. Outside of that (and a webserver with rewrite on) you only need a copy of redis running.
{
"name": "jeepstatus",
"require": {
"slim/slim": "2.*",
"slim/extras": "*",
"twig/twig": "*",
"predis/predis": "0.8.*@dev"
}
}52 times a day is a lot Not wanting to bombard Chrysler's VOTS service every 5 minutes from the same address, implemented a redis server to cache the json result for 20 minutes. The interval does not grow or shrink depending on how many times you hit the url. 20 minutes. Go drink a coffee or beer or something.
Initial Creation: JeepStatus is born from the exhaustion of looking at JSON backend code provided by Chrysler than doesn't actually show all the information they are providing. By coupling the actual data response with a dealer provdied list (available on many jeep websites) we can cross refence and get a better description of where the vehicle actually is.
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