Saturday, May 15, 2021

Automating Your Tesla's HVAC

It’s time to do the real fun stuff and control a Tesla vehicle from a smartphone or tablet! The examples I’m providing are to turn on the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The first flow turns the system on with the click of a button. The second one turns it on at a specific time of day depending on the location of the vehicle.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Tesla SSO OAuth Token Generation in Automate

One of the many great things about owning a Tesla vehicle is the ability to control it through a smartphone. What’s missing is the ability to schedule events. For example, I want the HVAC system to turn on fifteen minutes before I leave work. No more freezing nor roasting my butt off. Yeah, having to unlock my phone, open an app, wait for it to connect to my vehicle, and manually turn on the climate controls is a first-world problem, but why should a human have to do something so boring and repetitive? Why not make the phone do the work?