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The Tesla Roadster owners got fed up with waiting for Tesla to add telematics / smartphone monitoring to their cars (despite the hardware being present for Tesla themselves to do it), so they took matters into their own hands and made an open source module to plug into the cars.
This module works by monitoring the CAN bus and sending the data back to a server (that we run on TMC). This can then be accessed from iPhone and Android phones. For the more adventurous, write mode can be enabled. The data traffic is pretty low, so you can put in one of those £5 SIM card deals.
Luckily the system was designed to work with other cars, which might get us around the lack of such functionality on the Ampera and European Volt. Some US Volt owners are also considering it, due to some of the more advanced functionality it brings over the Onstar system they have.
Right now, one of the German Ampera owners is doing the work to scan the CAN bus and understand the traffic, but I'm sure they'd appreciate some help.
If you want to check it out, search OVMS on your app store. You'll find a dummy Tesla Roadster on there to practice with.
You can read a lot more here: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthre ... ing-System
You can find their website at: http://www.openvehicles.com/
This module works by monitoring the CAN bus and sending the data back to a server (that we run on TMC). This can then be accessed from iPhone and Android phones. For the more adventurous, write mode can be enabled. The data traffic is pretty low, so you can put in one of those £5 SIM card deals.
Luckily the system was designed to work with other cars, which might get us around the lack of such functionality on the Ampera and European Volt. Some US Volt owners are also considering it, due to some of the more advanced functionality it brings over the Onstar system they have.
Right now, one of the German Ampera owners is doing the work to scan the CAN bus and understand the traffic, but I'm sure they'd appreciate some help.
If you want to check it out, search OVMS on your app store. You'll find a dummy Tesla Roadster on there to practice with.
You can read a lot more here: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthre ... ing-System
You can find their website at: http://www.openvehicles.com/