mychevy 0.1.1

Python interface to My Chevy website via Selenium

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Python interface to My Chevy website via Selenium

Unlike Tesla, GM does not provide a consumer level API to their vehicles. I
tried to sign up for their developer program after purchasing my Chevy Bolt,
but so far it's all been black holed. They do provide a useful My Chevy
website, where you can log in with your OnStar credentials and see things like
how charged your battery is. This is all built with a javascript framework, and
the data loads off the OnStar network with a 60 - 120 second delay (OnStar is a
rather slow proprietary cellular network)

This library does the craziest thing possible: uses a headless chrome
browser to log into the mychevy website, wait until the OnStar data is
retrieved, returns that information as a Python object.

Installation
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Installation for this library is more than just a pip install, because you must
**also** install Google Chrome, and the Chrome Webdriver from selenium.

1. Install Google Chrome (real Chrome, Chromium doesn't count)
2. Install Chrome Web driver, put it in /usr/local/bin

.. code-block:: bash

CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION=`curl -sS chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE`
wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/$CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION/chromedriver_linux64.zip -P /tmp
unzip /tmp/chromedriver_linux64.zip -d /tmp
sudo install -m 0755 -o root /tmp/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver


3. pip install mychevy

The last part will pull in all selenium bindings.

Usage
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Usage is very basic.

.. code-block:: python

from mychevy.mychevy import MyChevy

page = MyChevy("<username>", "<password>")
# This takes up to 2 minutes to return, be patient
car = page.data()
# Percent battery charge
print(car.percent)


Every invocation of ``data()`` creates a whole separate browser to avoid
credential timeouts.

It is not recommended that you run this very frequently. Something like once an
hour will give you basic data, and shouldn't overload anyone's systems.

Testing
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Because there are so many ways this can go wrong, a basic cli tool has been
provided.

.. code-block::

> mychevy -c config.ini
Loading data, this takes up to 2 minutes...
<EVCar range=185 miles, bat=100%, plugged_in=True, mileage=903 miles, charging=Your battery is fully charged., charge_mode=Departure Based, eta=None, state=Plugged in(240V)>

config.ini must include your user and password for the mychevy site in the
following format:

.. code-block::

[default]
user = [e-mail]
passwd = my@wes0mepa55w0rd

The ``mychevy`` command also takes the ``-S`` flag which makes the selenium
controlled web browser non headless during it's execution. This can be useful
for eyeballing why things go wrong (there are so many ways this can go wrong).

Caveats
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There are so many caveats.... This software aspires to be the gloriously robust
bubble gum and duct tape of which it has heard makes the internet go round.

* Screen scraping is inherently a hack

This is screen scraping, any roll out of new UI from chevy is going to break
this. I'm a user, so I'll try to fix it quickly, but really this could break
at any time. Don't rely on the data for anything critical.

* The MyChevy website OnStar link is not robust

In the first month with the Bolt I've seen two multi hour outages of the
mychevy website being able to connect to their OnStar backend gateway. One
lasted a whole day. The OnStar link from the Android App worked fine during
these windows of time. So it's not an OnStar failure, but it's a lack of
robustness somewhere on the Web side, or the gateway dedicated for serving
OnStar requests.

* It launches a whole web browser to get a single python object

It's cool that it all works, but it's a lot of moving parts.

* I have no idea what will happen if there is more than one car on the OnStar
network for your user.

As such, this software will always be classified Alpha on Pypi. It can and will
break. For that I'm sorry. But it's the best I've got.


* Free software: Apache Software License 2.0
* Documentation: https://mychevy.readthedocs.io.


Features
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* TODO

Credits
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This package was created with Cookiecutter_ and the `audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage`_ project template.

.. _Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
.. _`audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage`: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage


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History
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0.1.0 (2017-12-24)
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* First release on PyPI.