mychevy 1.0.1

Python interface to My Chevy website via Selenium

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mychevy
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Python interface to My Chevy website

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 logs into the mychevy website, and uses the API that the javascript
on the site uses to load the onstar data.

Installation
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Installation for this library is just a pip install.

1. pip install mychevy


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

# build credentials and starts a session on the mychevy site
page.login()

# gets a list of cars associated with your account
page.get_cars()

# update stats for all cars, and returns the list of cars. This will take
# 60+ seconds per car
cars = page.update_cars()

# Percent battery charge
print(cars[0].percent)


Every invocation of ``login()`` creates a whole new session 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:: bash

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

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

.. code-block:: ini

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


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.

* JSON formats are guessed at

The use of the sessions capture and transfer, and inspecting json returned
still creates slightly different parameters than are used by the website. The
set of keys and values are guessed at. It's all kind of fragile and
heuristic.

* 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.

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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1.0.0 (2018-12-03)
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* remove the selenium requirement (thanks [e-mail])
* get my.chevy working with the new website (thanks [e-mail])

0.4.0 (2018-05-09)
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* my.chevy website is finally back up, data structure parsing adjusted to match it

0.3.2 (2018-02-04)
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* Add simple unit testing
* Stop testing on python 3.4 so we can use more advanced exceptions

0.3.1 (2018-01-31)
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* Nicer error handling when server throws an error

0.3.0 (2018-01-30)
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* Change data collection to use json parsing instead of screen scraping after login

0.2.0 (2018-01-21)
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* Upgraded cli to use `click`

0.1.0 (2017-12-31)
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* First release on PyPI.