Discuss: Tesla To Add Official Support for Third-Party Services and Apps

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Tesla prepares to transform user experience by enabling support for third-party applications. Discover how this may revolutionize the way we interact with our T… Read More

Tesla To Add Official Support for Third-Party Services and Apps

Tesla prepares to transform user experience by enabling support for third-party applications. Discover how this may revolutionize the way we interact with our T

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[RNHurt]

This is HUGE and I can't wait for it to happen. I would like to use some 3rd party app (TeslaFi, etc.) but I really don't want to give them unfettered access to my Tesla account. With this update, Tesla could allow me to grant TeslaFI read-only access to the car statistics, without allowing them to be able to change anything on the car or even use the account for other things (purchasing t-shirts?).

 

[PrescottAZRichard]

I’m having a hard time imagining the impact of this, so I appreciate the insight wrt TeslaFi and that kind of app. How about alternative map & routing? I kinda feel like the theater apps and games were a toe in the water for a full blown App Store.

 

[RNHurt]

The way this usually works is that you generate a "key" and grant that key permissions. In this case it would probably work something like this:

1. Sign into your Tesla.com account
2. Create an API key, which is just a really big number or series of letters
3. Grant permissions to that key:
   1. Allow - Read Battery Stats
   2. Allow - Read Location Information
   3. Deny - Turn on the A/C
   4. Deny - Purchase a T-Shirt in the Tesla store
   5. etc.
4. Share the API key with the 3rd party (ie. TeslaFI)
5. Relax knowing that TeslaFI can not turn on your car's A/C
6. BONUS: If it's done properly, you should be able to make changes to the permissions as conditions allow. For example, if you want to allow TeslaFI to turn on the A/C, you don't have to generate a new key, just update the existing key and your done.

 

[RNHurt]

!UPDATE!

It looks like Telsa has released some code for this exact purpose. Maybe this is real!

GitHub - teslamotors/fleet-telemetry

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