Interested in an unofficial Apple Watch app?

[electricsidecar]

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I’ve found a few unofficial libraries that work decently well at hitting the My Porsche end points, which got me thinking how nice it would be to have an Apple Watch app tailored to the car

Rough feature ideas:

- Complications showing: battery meter, range remaining, car mileage, distance from current location, tire PSI
- Actions for: unlocking, locking, honking / flashing the lights
- Setting/changing alarms

Probably a few other features are possible depending on what’s available in the API endpoints.

Given that this wouldn’t be an official app, I’m most likely to just make it open source and/or free, with pretty significant disclaimers as to the possibility of it breaking at any point. If you’d like to hack on this with me, let’s use this thread to ideate

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[electricsidecar]

Obvious first name idea is "ElectricSidecar"

 

[B61]

I’d add preheat/cool to feature ideas.

 

[tigerbalm]

I’ve found a few unofficial libraries that work decently well at hitting the My Porsche end points

If one of them happens to be https://github.com/driven-app/porsche-connect – then do please let me know how you get on with it. I'm struggling to find time to improve it!

It scratched my own itch – in that I wrote myself a macOS app that I call "ChargeBar" that shows the current battery level of my car on my toolbar:

211-D-13830:

 

[electricsidecar]

Hey Damien! Yes! https://github.com/driven-app/porsche-connect was the first one I found — I wasn't able to get it authenticating unfortunately and was just leaving some comments in https://github.com/driven-app/porsche-connect/issues/50

I did find https://github.com/CJNE/pyporscheconnectapi which seems more functional. I've since ported that Python library over to Swift and have a functional proof of concept, now I'm working on pulling the gnarly code apart into a semi-reasonable library. I'd like to see if I can find a good way to merge the code back to your repo!

 

[tigerbalm]

I'll take a look today to see if there is anything obvious/easy causing the library to fail the Porsche auth flow.

 

[electricsidecar]

I've merged your repo into https://github.com/jverkoey/ElectricSidecar as a subtree and will push changes upstream as pull requests via my fork Def don't want to duplicate effort unnecessarily and I like the test suite you've got set up already.

 

[B61]

Once/if you’ll need additional tester, let me know.
As a retired IT professional, i have plenty of time

 

[Alex74]

If one of them happens to be https://github.com/driven-app/porsche-connect – then do please let me know how you get on with it. I'm struggling to find time to improve it!

It scratched my own itch – in that I wrote myself a macOS app that I call "ChargeBar" that shows the current battery level of my car on my toolbar:

211-D-13830:

Busted: this,is taken at the E17 in Wetteren (direction bxl)Belgium.
with slow working chargers, most of the time. Other side is better.

 

[tigerbalm]

Busted: this,is taken at the E17 in Wetteren (direction bxl)Belgium.
with slow working chargers, most of the time. Other side is better.

Used the other side on my way back! If my memory serves me correctly, I got a decent kW there that day.

https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/taycan-to-the-alps-18-day-road-trip-2022.12402/post-183815

Looks like we got nearly 50 kWh in 18 mins!

 

[tigerbalm]

@featherless I've got it working locally and understand the issue. This https://github.com/CJNE/pyporscheconnectapi/commit/90bfb2f5d7257ccc5e06e53b9bd64473df383296 change in the Python library basically.

I just need to fix tests, etc, and will then push to main branch and let you know.

 

[electricsidecar]

Ah awesomeness! That seems to square up with the discrepancies I was seeing on my end as well. Starting to send some minor PRs your way! I'd like to start fleshing out a few of the endpoints.

 

[electricsidecar]

I put https://github.com/jverkoey/ElectricSidecar/commit/ba89fe3286dbdf8bbb8ebab454edb4590de8e4dc together as an attempt to fix the auth issue and confirmed that the CLI tool is working now. I'm thinking it might be beneficial to adopt the same routing-determination mechanism that the python library uses (i.e. checking the URL prefix for which application to hit) so that the public endpoint function calls don't have to worry about which Application endpoint they're supposed to be routing through.

 

[Str0nArm]

As an iOS developer myself thanks @featherless

I’ll see what time I can dedicate to this too

 

[electricsidecar]

Ah just saw your PR @tigerbalm, will take a look tomorrow!

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