Tesla Releases Official API Documentation To Support Third-Party Apps (electrek.co) 7
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Tesla has officially released its API documentation to support third-party apps -- after years of operating in a gray zone with an unofficial API. For now, it is geared toward fleet management, but developers are hoping it is a first step toward creating a healthy app ecosystem. [...] So far, it still only covers the command that you can send to your car through the Tesla app, and it can ping the data from your car that goes to the app. In short, it is going to make official all the third-party fleet management apps, smartwatch integration apps, etc.
In the documentation, Tesla writes that all third-party apps are going to have to go through the new API starting next year: "Following the release of Tesla Vehicle Command SDK support for REST API vehicle command endpoints is now reaching end of life. Starting 2024 most vehicles will require sending commands via Tesla Vehicle Command SDK." Tesla put together a process to onboard those apps on its website. If you are using some of those apps, you will likely receive a notification to give them official authorization to access car data.
In the documentation, Tesla writes that all third-party apps are going to have to go through the new API starting next year: "Following the release of Tesla Vehicle Command SDK support for REST API vehicle command endpoints is now reaching end of life. Starting 2024 most vehicles will require sending commands via Tesla Vehicle Command SDK." Tesla put together a process to onboard those apps on its website. If you are using some of those apps, you will likely receive a notification to give them official authorization to access car data.
Oh joy (Score:2)
Would could possibly go wrong with letting thousands (millions?) of anybodys make up random software to integrate with a car.
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They can already do it and it's fine. This is just formalizing it, which is a good thing as it will probably enforce a better authentication scheme.
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Sure, just fine: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02... [cnn.com]
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Meh...none of that is particularly impressive. You know what would be impressive? Replace that annoying idle buzzing sound EVs make with La Cucaracha.
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Exactly what Steve Jobs said about the cell phone, only he made clear that it would enable software to destroy the cellular network. Was totally untrue, but it served Jobs' narrative.
The difference, of course, is that cellular networks are firewalled from app software using hardware and firmware the vendors control, whereas Tesla uses an off-the-shelf software "stack of shit" that has been breached in the past. There's every reason to believe that Tesla's software is vulnerable and corruptible because it
Right to Repair? (Score:2)
Is firming up their stack a prelude to releasing California Right to Repair software?
Timing *could* be coincidental.
No way to send Bug reports (Score:3)
As a Tesla owner, I just wish there were some way to report bugs!
It's really frustrating how bad some of the software is.
For example: ... " which turns into "Navigating to nearest free Wifi" (and of course you lose your destination while you're driving). This even happens when it knows that the first word is "Phone".
* the wing mirrors auto-fold at my home location, but won't auto-unfold for about 100m.
* the rearview parking cameras are sepia-tinted - perfect for blending in concrete pillars!
* the guideline white lines on reversing shows where the wheels will go, not the "hips" of the car. So you follow them into a tight-space, and crunch!
* summon never works where you need it to (i.e. in tight spaces in car-parks where there is no cellular, only bluetooth)
* every unrecognised voice command falls through to navigation. Eg. "Wiper off" is misheard as "Waipa off" which is mis-recognised as "Wifi
* "Phone Mum" doesn't work - because I don't have a "Mom" in my phonebook (that's an Americanism).
* The Phone keyboard has no ability to quickly enter names by typing the first letters (e.g. to identify "Peter", you might start typing "7 3 8", as P E T). Instead, you have to scroll through the whole list - and that's really hard to do safely when driving.
* Also, I expected that the self-driving would,at minimum, be able to park the car with greater precision than I can, in tight spots.
* When you restart, the car takes ages to re-acquire GPS, and it doesn't realise that it is in the same place it was when you parked! So it can be 500m off - and it takes up to 2 minutes to find itself - this is quite long enough to be satnav'd into going the wrong way.
* If there is no cellular, then trying to find a destination on the map gives as "destination not found" error, rather than a "No data available".
* If the headlights are in auto-mode, it's impossible to get them to stay on full-beam in a dark, narrow, isolated country-lane - even without any other cars, the nearby trees turn them to dipped.
Tesla has no way to contact them to tell them stuff - even when I went into a Tesla store, the owner just said, sorry, we can't feed it back. This is so frustrating, as I could get so much of it fixed, if they would only LISTEN.