does this require Tesla account login and password or can we use!the Tesla API token?
It doesn't look like Teslabot is handling usernames and passwords. They are using Smartcar.com, which uses OAuth2 and permissions.
Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
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Re: Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
#22The problem with doing this with Teslas, as I have had one for years and thought about building this, is trusting someone else to hold your credentials for your car. There is no authorization scoping and anyone with the credentials can find the car, unlock it, get in and drive it away. Also, plenty of mischief as well like opening the sun roof, the trunks, flashing the lights and honking the horn. I wish they had pro…
Passage AI is using Smartcar.com (disclosure: my company) to build TeslaBot. We do the work facilitating OAuth2 and permission scopes so that developers do not need to handle usernames or passwords.
Re: Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
#23I do not have a Tesla, and I do not know what is available out there in terms of managing a Tesla from a remote location. But I am curious about using the chat bot-format for a status monitor application like this. What value does it provide to the user that is not fulfilled by an application just displaying the statuses to the user?
I get that in this case everything is handled inside of Facebook Messenger, and to some extent there is interaction that provides a value to the user such as the range calculation described in another comment by sahaskatta.
But I am curious about other situations where a chat bot provides an extra value, not only considering this application?
Re: Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
#24Awesome, works well!
I would pay $5/month if I could just talk and if my phone or Airpods were on I could control my car or check on it. "Teslabot, what's my range?"
Re: Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
#25The problem with doing this with Teslas, as I have had one for years and thought about building this, is trusting someone else to hold your credentials for your car. There is no authorization scoping and anyone with the credentials can find the car, unlock it, get in and drive it away. Also, plenty of mischief as well like opening the sun roof, the trunks, flashing the lights and honking the horn. I wish they had pro…
Passage AI is using Smartcar.com (disclosure: my company) to build TeslaBot. We do the work facilitating OAuth2 and permission scopes so that developers do not need to handle usernames or passwords.
Looks pretty slick.
On another matter... how's the Otonomo C&D working out?
Re: Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
#26Call in Nikola* and there will be zero controversy about naming. * thanks for correcting my error!
*Nikola
Re: Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
#27Call in Nikola* and there will be zero controversy about naming. * thanks for correcting my error!
Call it Nik or Niko for Nikolas
Re: Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
#28The problem with doing this with Teslas, as I have had one for years and thought about building this, is trusting someone else to hold your credentials for your car. There is no authorization scoping and anyone with the credentials can find the car, unlock it, get in and drive it away. Also, plenty of mischief as well like opening the sun roof, the trunks, flashing the lights and honking the horn. I wish they had pro…
Passage AI is using Smartcar.com (disclosure: my company) to build TeslaBot. We do the work facilitating OAuth2 and permission scopes so that developers do not need to handle usernames or passwords.
However Tesla doesn’t provide a way to grant a token to a 3rd party so you (your application) would still need my tesla account credentials.
How are you solving this?
Re: Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
#29I'm aware that some people do not care but for me the fact that it uses Faceboook messenger is an immediate non-starter for me.
Re: Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features
#30Awesome, works well! I would pay $5/month if I could just talk and if my phone or Airpods were on I could control my car or check on it. "Teslabot, what's my range?"
You could if you added a Snips on-device Voice AI to it, look at https://snips.ai