TeslaMate [megathread]

[jonpho]

Is there anywhere within Teslamate where we can see how much energy we recoup with the regenerative braking?

 

[init6]

Is there anywhere within Teslamate where we can see how much energy we recoup with the regenerative braking?

No. The car doesn't make that visible to the API. Not sure it even records that.

 

[Paul Rules]

No. The car doesn't make that visible to the API. Not sure it even records that.

It records it. You can see it in scanmytesla with an OBD dongle.

 

[MrT3]

No. The car doesn't make that visible to the API. Not sure it even records that.

The car knows about it - it is the green area on the energy graphs.

It is actually in the API too, Teslamate displays it - the yellow trace below is power, anything below the zero line is regen. But I'm guessing the API isn't outputting a rolling sum of all regen for Teslamate to use though.

 

[init6]

D'oh - of course - negative power will be regen. My mistake.

 

[surfer144]

Is there an updated list of USA superchargers that are importable? There are a few newer ones that don't seem to be on the list I found from 2020.

 

[cwanja]

Is there an updated list of USA superchargers that are importable? There are a few newer ones that don't seem to be on the list I found from 2020.

Why not just create the geofence after the fact? Why pre-populate it?

Have not found a way to “import” geofences, unless you want to do it through an insert into the database.

 

[cwanja]

I am not sure if this is the right thread (90 pages - phew!). I have been running TM (TeslaMate) for a while, and I finally go around to posting instructions on how to get this up and running on Azure in a Ubuntu VM. This has been one of the instances how I have ran it for some time now and I wanted to share it back with the community in case anyone wasn't comfortable and wanted to see all the steps and details. Sorry its a long post.

More here if anyone is interested:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1476693838316163072

Curious - what is the benefit to getting access to the data outside of your house? Would it not be more secure to have a VPN back to your LAN and access it that way than exposing it to the internet?

 

[DM206433]

Curious - what is the benefit to getting access to the data outside of your house? Would it not be more secure to have a VPN back to your LAN and access it that way than exposing it to the internet?

Yeah this is what I've chosen to do. I'm running Teslamate on my little Hyper-V host at home, and then if I want to access it out and about I'll just VPN back to my home network. Its cheaper (and I think more secure) than running it in Azure or any of the other hosting providers.

 

[init6]

Its cheaper (and I think more secure) than running it in Azure or any of the other hosting providers.

You can run it for free on GCP, so cheaper than running it at home. Security depends on your skill level though.

 

[DM206433]

You can run it for free on GCP, so cheaper than running it at home. Security depends on your skill level though.

Hadn't realised that the free tier now extends beyond the 30 days - thats pretty cool. Might have a look when I get a bit of time.

 

[GeorgeSymonds]

It might be worth checking you are still logged in, Tesla seem to have expired lots of credentials including mine in Teslamate. I only found out because I could not log into mytesla without resetting my password

 

[Tony Hoyle]

Yeah teslamate doesn't give any sign it's not working, until you notice it's not updating any more.

Unfortunately with things like 2FA these days it's a PITA to log back in.. username/password no longer works (fails silently). Took me a few attempts..

 

[init6]

You do get a health check failed message when it can't connect to the servers. Not sure if that would still trigger if credentials expired though.

 

[GeorgeSymonds]

I generate the tokens on a different system and log back in that way.

When I accessed the Teslamate link it just presented the request for the Tesla login.

When I accessed Grafana it showed no charge level since sometime overnight which I guess was when Tesla expired it. No other warning here.

 

[init6]

I generate the tokens on a different system and log back in that way.

When I accessed the Teslamate link it just presented the request for the Tesla login.

When I accessed Grafana it showed no charge level since sometime overnight which I guess was when Tesla expired it. No other warning here.

Grafana won't know the database has stopped updating - although it would probably be easy to create a dashboard for that. Tonight's homework

 

[cwanja]

Cautiously update to 1.25.2 Depending on your architecture, it seems the TeslaMate container will not run on certain models.

 

[init6]

MQTT seems to be the way to get automated alerts when the health check fails. I don't know enough about MQTT to set that up, but here's a panel to display the last time the start_date in states was updated:

{
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"thresholds": {
"mode": "absolute",
"steps": [
{
"color": "green",
"value": null
},
{
"color": "red",
"value": 80
}
]
},
"mappings": [],
"color": {
"mode": "thresholds"
},
"unit": "dateTimeFromNow"
},
"overrides": []
},
"gridPos": {
"h": 3,
"w": 4,
"x": 17,
"y": 1
},
"id": 42,
"options": {
"reduceOptions": {
"values": true,
"calcs": [
"lastNotNull"
],
"fields": "/^start_date$/"
},
"orientation": "auto",
"text": {},
"textMode": "auto",
"colorMode": "value",
"graphMode": "area",
"justifyMode": "center"
},
"pluginVersion": "7.5.11",
"targets": [
{
"format": "table",
"group": [],
"metricColumn": "none",
"rawQuery": true,
"rawSql": "SELECT\n start_date\nFROM states\nORDER BY start_date desc\nLIMIT 1",
"refId": "A",
"select": [
[
{
"params": [
"odometer"
],
"type": "column"
}
]
],
"table": "positions",
"timeColumn": "date",
"timeColumnType": "timestamp",
"where": [
{
"name": "$__timeFilter",
"params": [],
"type": "macro"
}
]
}
],
"title": "Last states update",
"type": "stat",
"scopedVars": {
"car_id": {
"text": "Tonto",
"value": "1",
"selected": false
}
},
"timeFrom": null,
"timeShift": null,
"datasource": null
}

 

[init6]

updated_at from the tokens table might be a better measure, I'll watch both over the next couple of days to see which is best.

 

[cwanja]

It might be worth checking you are still logged in, Tesla seem to have expired lots of credentials including mine in Teslamate. I only found out because I could not log into mytesla without resetting my password

Resetting of API tokens might be related to the news of that individual stating that he has "access to 20 Tesla vehicles in 13 counties" due to a third-party app / users leaking their credentials.