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Mytesla

Display information about and remotely control your Tesla vehicles from the MacOS menubar

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/learn @pvdabeel/Mytesla
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0/100

Supported Platforms

Universal

README

MyTesla - MacOS Menubar plugin

Displays information regarding your Tesla vehicle in the MacOS menubar. Allows you to remotely control your Tesla vehicle as well.

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| Browse Vehicle options | Browse Vehicle images | Control charging | | --- | --- | --- | | Imgur | Imgur | Imgur |

| Control Airco | Control Media | Control Navigation | | --- | --- | --- | | Imgur | Imgur | Imgur |

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Changelog:

Update 2023.12.03:

  • [X] Testing new Tesla Fleet API (location tracking)

Update 2022.11.01:

  • [X] Ready for Python3 and MacOS Ventura
  • [X] Improved Seat heating support: supports 7 seats
  • [X] Improved Steering heating support
  • [X] Displays current Station / Song / Title
  • [X] Displays current volume
  • [X] Updated composer images

Update 2022.05.21:

  • [X] Automatically refreshes Tesla's new style 8-hr API tokens

Update 2021.11.02:

  • [X] Support for xbar, deprecating bitbar
  • [X] Provide option to directly provide access_code during initialization

Update 2021.08.04:

  • [X] Support for auth.tesla.com captcha
  • [X] Support for showing battery in menu bar
  • [X] Support for white logo in menu bar on Big Sur

Update 2020.02.06:

  • [X] Offline mode: application shows last known 'state' when vehicle is sleeping. Added a manual wakup option.
  • [X] Improved location tracking performance
  • [X] Ability to override option_codes for your vehicle (see parameters in file)

Update 2020.02.04:

  • [X] Support for auth.tesla.com including Multi-Factor authentication
  • [X] Code cleanup

Update 2019.10.02:

  • [X] Display window status
  • [X] Show software update progress and version info

Update 2019.09.30:

  • [X] Larger google map

Update 2019.09.29:

  • [X] Support for V.10 firmware
  • [X] Window control
  • [X] Trigger Homelink
  • [X] Share to vehicle
  • [X] Maximum window defrost

Update 2019.07.01:

  • [X] Show service appointments
  • [X] Mac OS X Catalina beta support

Update 2019.04.13:

  • [X] Dog Mode
  • [X] Sentry Mode
  • [X] More information when vehicle is in service

Update 2019.03.06:

  • [X] Compose car image based on optionlist

Update 2019.02.05:

  • [X] Added continuous location tracking to a TinyDB (can be disabled)
  • [X] Google maps are cached (~25% performance improvement)

Update 2019.01.03:

  • [X] Remote control seat heaters
  • [X] List and nativate to nearby superchargers or destination chargers

Update 2018.12.16:

  • [X] Set navigation to nearby charging site (Firmware 2018.48 or higher needed)
  • [X] Display vehicle option codes

Update 2018.12.08:

  • [X] Remotely set your navigation

Update 2018.12.01:

  • [X] Schedule software update
  • [X] Toggle media on and off
  • [X] Next and previous track
  • [X] Volume up and down

Update 2018.07.30:

  • [X] When running in dark mode, also shows google map in dark mode
  • [X] Uses CoreLocation to get own GPS coordinates and put on map together with car,

Update 2018.04.05:

  • [X] Shows vehicle information (VIN, color, wheels, type, model, Ludicrous)
  • [X] Provide indication whether vehicle was uncorked or not
  • [X] Copy VIN to clipboard
  • [X] Hold ALT when clicking command for the command to be executed in Terminal

Update 2018.03.22:

  • [X] Added support for opening & closing trunks and chargeport
  • [X] Performance optimizations
  • [X] Shows live location (Google Maps) in the url. Alternate between Map and Satellite image.

Update 2018.02.21: Updated for Tesla firmware 2018.4 (APIv3)

  • [X] Shows battery loss percentage due to cold.
  • [X] Shows rear and front window defroster status
  • [X] Shows battery heating status

Update 2017.11.01: (beta) Schedule vehicle charging and heating using OS X Calendar or OS X reminders

Update 2017.10.23: Added color support

Update 2017.10.22: Added support for remotely:

  • [X] Start keyless driving
  • [X] Set charge levels and control charging
  • [X] Unlock and lock the vehicle
  • [X] Control airco temperature
  • [X] Open and close the sunroof
  • [X] Flash lights and honk horn

Credits:

Greg Glockner teslajson API code.

Licence: GPL v3

Installation instructions:

  1. Download python version 3
  2. Ensure you have xbar installed.
  3. Execute 'sudo pip install tinydb==3.9 keyring pathos googlemaps' in Terminal.app
  4. Copy mytesla.15m.py to your xbar plugins folder and chmod +x the file from your terminal in that folder
  5. For advanced users: check the configuration options in the mytesla.15m.py file
  6. Run xbar (version 2.1.7-beta or higher).

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Updated19d ago
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Languages

Python

Security Score

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