Tesla's recent rollout of fleet-telemetry empowers authorized users to seamlessly stream real-time data directly from Tesla vehicles. Let's delve i...
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I was considering writing an article just like this a few hours ago, so glad to see you already have. I got access to Fleet Telemetry this morning and have successfully implemented it on teslemetry.com to send Webhooks or Server Side Events.
So you subscribe on their behalf and post it back out to their provided webhook on each report?
One question, why do we need to send
cain the body ofSend Fleet Telemetry Config?I'm asking because in practice it means every 3 months that the TLS certificate changes(assuming I'm using let's encrypt) I have to resubmit my whole fleet configs.
Or is it only needed on the first time when the vehicle is configured?
Theoretically the CA shouldn't change if you generate with the same CA each time. It's probably easiest to self-sign your certificate. I will update the article soon to show how to do this.
Hi Patrick, thank you for this tutorial. I helps a lot! I still have some questions?
=> My app domain is registered like
www.your-domain.comnot with a classic your-domain.com (newbie error), will it work to have : telemetry.your-domain.com? (certificate has been generated properly)=> I have sent a CSR to tesla for your-domain.com, I got a response 200 with :
"response": {"account_id": "4625141***",
"domain": "www.*****.com",
"name": "***",
"description": "***",
"csr": null,
"client_id": "****",
"ca": null,
"created_at": "2023-10-25T17:17:48.744Z",
"updated_at": "2023-11-17T23:14:46.079Z",
"enterprise_tier": "free",
"issuer": null,
"csr_updated_at": null,
"public_key": "0451016f6299****"
}
But I see null for CA and CSR. Do you think that the CSR will be processed? Should I do something else?
Thank you!
Yes, that will work. I'm using "tesla.mydomain.com" for my app registration and "telemetry.mydomain.com" for the fleet-telemetry server and it seems ok with that. Granted I can't get my certs to load correctly yet so I can't prove it...
Hi Steve,
I'm wondering if your CSR was accepted and successful? I also want to confirm that you meant for the CSR you used "domain": "tesla.mydomain.com" (or "mydomain.com") instead of the "telemetry.mydomain.com"?
when editing the config.json I need to fill the content of the full certificate chain file:
"ca": "content of full certificate chain file from previous step"But the content is multiline code like this:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----12345
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
abcde
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
How can I add this multiline code to the config.json?
OK, found it. Every line need a \n and then join to one line...
Now I can use the check script but it gives me:
What can be the problem here?
Looks like verification is passing with
-partial_chainflag. From openssl docs:Allow verification to succeed if an incomplete chain can be built. That is, a chain ending in a certificate that normally would not be trusted (because it has no matching positive trust attributes and is not self-signed) but is an element of the trust store. This certificate may be self-issued or belong to an intermediate CA.
Hi @patrickdemers6, thank you very much for the tutorial.
I've noticed your steps and steps in the tesla-temeletry repo are a bit different. Which one is the newest?
Since in the repo, it didn't mention CSR, I tried to get a self-signed CA. However, when I try to use the CA to verify my tesla-telemetry server, I got
The server certificate is invalid.error.Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks!
when checking the csr i kept getting an error, any feedback is appreciated!
./repo/tools/check_server_cert.sh config.json
CN = tesla-telemetry.your-domain.com
error 20 at 0 depth lookup: unable to get local issuer certificate
error /tmp/tmp.MB7flNLa0Z: verification failed
CN = tesla-telemetry.your-domain.com
error 20 at 0 depth lookup: unable to get local issuer certificate
error /tmp/tmp.MB7flNLa0Z: verification failed
The server certificate is invalid
Hi - I hope someone can answer a simple question.
I already have Fleet API working and want to add Fleet Telemetry.
I assume I can use the same account.
Can I use the same app or does this need to be a separate app? (the Generate Partner Token step looks identical).
Thanks in advance for any help
Strange, the telemetry-config has been synced to the car, my server is running, the CSR-request was accepted by Tesla, check_server_cert states 'The server certificate is valid.', but I do not get any data... If I query the Fleet Telemetry Errors endpoint with my partner bearer token, I get an empty fleet_telemetry_errors return...
Ok, seems like I missed only one step. Although I think the README.md on the github page did not described it a week ago. You need to redirect the owner of the vehicle you want to install the virtual key on to tesla.com/_ak/your-domain.com and let the owner accept this with his app... After doing this last step, data began streaming into my server.
I updated the readme to make the steps clearer a while back. I'll update this post as well.
How long is shortly? Just to have an idea. I've sent the config to a MY 2023 model, which accepted it. When requesting its config, the 'synced' field remains 'false'. Even after > 1 hour and waking up de tesla and even driving it for 2 minutes...
ok, the vehicle now states 'synced'='true'. I guess it may take a while...
Yeah, there's no hard rule on when the vehicle will receive the config. It depends on if it's connected to the server, has a solid internet connection, etc.
Hello and thanks for this great post!
May I ask you how long it took for Tesla to get back to you after you submitted the CSR?
In step 9 of their fleet api Github repo they mention it may take up to two weeks
github.com/teslamotors/fleet-telem...
Have you contacted them via email or just waited for them to get back to you?
Did they get back to you?
I'm still waiting since 2024-03-31
It took more than the advertised 2 weeks for me - just got my response this week and probably submitted it around the same time you did.
Thank you Steve, There were a problem on my account CSR was not attached but it is fixed!
{
"response": null,
"error": "Root domain ******.com must match registered allowed origin on developer.tesla.com/dashboard/app-...",
"error_description": "",
"txid": "34942b7a2f3f7faa45a72b249ea35f63"
}
I'm getting this error , but i couldnt find any place to update the allowed origins
Hi ! First thanks a lot for this tutorial.
I have a problem and i have a no idea why this not working.
Hi, did you solve this issue. i faced same error
Hello, I've created web socket server in nodejs and telemetry connected successfully and data getting in buffer format and I'm trying to decode this data to original data but getting unreadable format.please check screen shot
Same here, @patrickdemers6 could you help us with this?
Hi @patrickdemers6 ,
Thanks for your post. I know these questions are out of the blue. I finished all the prepared steps and got a confirmation email from Tesla on their side to set up the CSR file on the backend.
I am a c# dev (do not know much about Go) and trying to convert the Go project to C#, I believe I got a vehicle connected to my server and stored data from the vehicle as Binary to my database for later decode the data from the vehicle. I used the given proto file from your project and complied it to c# and used it in my project but somehow could not parse the payload from the vehicle and it always showed the error "Merge an unknown field of end-group tag, indicating that the corresponding start-group was missing".
For the server side, it simply accepts all connections just for debugging and storing data as a standard build-in of .net 8.
Could you let me know what is the main process to decode the data from vehicle?
Thanks
Is there any information out there about rate/data limits? I swear I had seen some at one point, and maybe I'm just blind and am missing it, but I know if I try to be too aggressive it tells me, but what can I get away with?
More info about rate limits and billing plans is slated for later this quarter or early Q3.
I am trying to deploy this and I getting the "read /etc/fleet-telemetry/config.json: is a directory" error. I tired all I could but could not find the issue. Any help is appreciated!
Attaching to app-1
app-1 | 2024/09/23 13:48:31 maxprocs: Leaving GOMAXPROCS=1: CPU quota undefined
app-1 | time="2024-09-23T13:48:31Z" level=error msg=read_application_configuration_error context=fleet-telemetry error="read /etc/fleet-telemetry/config.json: is a directory"
app-1 | panic: error=load_service_config value="read /etc/fleet-telemetry/config.json: is a directory"
app-1 |
app-1 | goroutine 1 [running]:
app-1 | main.main()
app-1 | /go/src/fleet-telemetry/cmd/main.go:23 +0x25f
Thank you for the tutorial!
For the CSR do I need separate CSRs one for domain (your-domain.com) and another for the subdomain (tesla-telemetry.your-domain.com)?
New to this whole thing but very excited, please bear with my questions :)
Hi and thanks for the post - lots of scrambling in this area as we try and keep up.
I am afraid I have a number of questions, mainly relating to the differences between the Fleet API which I now have working thanks mainly to llamafilm's proxy addon for Home assistant github.com/llamafilm/tesla-http-pr....
That procedure seems to do much the same as this one, for the first few steps, but I am unsure which bits are duplicates as the proxy automates a fair bit of it.
My developer account does not mention Telemetry, so do I have to go though the steps to create the first CSR?
I have the Cert and Ca bundle as this was needed for Fleet APi and I assume I can use the same domain for Telemetry (if I can work out how to run the server on my shared host).
I also assume that the same Key that is already in the vehicle will do both jobs (or am I being hopeful?)
Thanks again
Al
Is there a way to receive a complete JSON data packet at regular intervals? Currently, I receive the data in fragments, such as location, gpsHeading, etc., each coming separately
The telemetry API can only be used for streaming? Is it possible to use it for sending commands to the car as alternative to the heavy rate limited Fleet API?
Thanks for your article.
My Telemetry Server is now running and displays the log entries.
But what's next? How can I get this data and send it to my APOI using a REST call?
In your example telemetry server config you have "path to certificate from previous step" but really this is some path expected inside the container, isn't it?
Yes, you need to make sure the path is accurate however you're running the fleet-telemetry server. If you're running it using Docker, make sure the path corresponds with the mounted volume.