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It sounds good, but when I started signing up they wanted my Tesla.com's actual login AND password. There were no other options to use instead of that. So I canceled signing up.
That’s very helpful information. I would, however, recommend switching to Tesla’s own authentication window just as Google and even Facebook do when using their login process to obtain a token. It would just be more secure as CARMIQ can never be accused of “holding” the user’s Tesla account password, even if for the brief initial OATH session. It also would give more comfort to those who do not want to - even briefly - hand over their password.The authorization process is a standard 'OAuth' that is hosted on Tesla servers. Therefore, we never have access to view/store the Tesla account credentials. When you input your account credentials, we receive the same token that provides temporary and limited access to the account. This is the same process used when you sign up to a site using Facebook or Google.
That’s very helpful information. I would, however, recommend switching to Tesla’s own authentication window just as Google and even Facebook do when using their login process to obtain a token. It would just be more secure as CARMIQ can never be accused of “holding” the user’s Tesla account password, even if for the brief initial OATH session. It also would give more comfort to those who do not want to - even briefly - hand over their password.
At no point is the information accessible by Carmiq.
However to clarify, allowing users to input their own tokens would not increase security.
Many of Carmiq's features rely on individual data from users' Teslas, which is why we require this information to sign up. All vehicle API calls are done through the official Tesla fleet API's, which we have been granted a license to use. Furthermore, all features/data-sharing must be explicitly opted in to by the user. Carmiq will never spam you with ads for services or share your data without your permission.
Tesla granted you a license to their API?
Yeah, that's why I asked the question........ lets see what haydn saysTesla doesn't license their API. All of these 3rd party apps that exist using the API are done so via reverse engineering. Tesla could kill them all at any point.