Have you ever forgot to put your Tesla on charger, and woke up to a barely charged vehicle? If you did, here is a solution for all of your problems! Well, for one of your problems. This is a simple script to monitor your car charging state, based on the location and time schedule.
Features:
- Different time schedules for different locations
- An option for waking up (or not waking up) vehicle in specific timeframes
- Twilio notifications for alerts
- Create the config file, by copying the provided example:
cp tesla-monitoring.conf.json.example tesla-monitoring.conf.json
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Get the Tesla API token. Simply run
get-tesla-token.py, and paste the output intotokensection of the config file -
Adjust the schedule and location (hopefully, your home and/or workplace)
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Fill in your Twilio account details in the alerting section. If you do not have a Twilio account, go create one. It is free, and it allows you to send yourself SMS.
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Schedule the script to run via crontab. I set it to run every 30 minutes, so I can use the schedule config to flexibly change the timeframes. I recommend running this on some always-on home server (NAS, RaspberyPI, OpenWRT router, etc). The device needs to be able to run python, obviously.
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Enjoy.