weconnect-cli 0.3.0

Commandline Interface to interact with the Volkswagen WeConnect Services

WeConnect-cli

Commandline Interface to interact with the Volkswagen WeConnect Services

What is the purpose?

If you want to query data from weconnect you can use this command line interface to query the service. This commandline interface behaves like a user using the WeConnect ID App and the WeConnect secion on myvolkswagen.de. Use this if you want to work with the data from WeConnect.

Requirements

You need to install python 3 on your system: How to install python

How to install

If you want to use WeConnect-cli, the easiest way is to obtain it from PyPI. Just install instead using:

pip3 install weconnect-cli

Updates

If you want to update WeConnect-cli, the easiest way is:

pip3 install weconnect-cli --upgrade

How to use

Start weconnect-cli from the commandline:

weconnect-cli

You get all the usage information by using the --help command

weconnect-cli --help

With the "list" command you can get a list of all available information you can query

weconnect-cli list
/vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394
/vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/vin
/vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/role
/vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/enrollmentStatus
/vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/model
/vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/nickname
/vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/capabilities
...

You can then pass the addresses to the "get" command:

weconnect-cli get /vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/model
ID.3

The "events" command allows you to monitor what is happening on the WeConnect Interface:

weconnect-cli events
2021-05-26 16:49:58.698570: /vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/status/accessStatus/overallStatus: new value: unsafe
2021-05-26 16:49:58.698751: /vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/status/accessStatus/doors/bonnet/lockState: new value: unknown lock state
2021-05-26 16:49:58.698800: /vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/status/accessStatus/doors/bonnet/openState: new value: closed
2021-05-26 16:49:58.698980: /vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/status/accessStatus/doors/frontLeft/lockState: new value: unlocked
2021-05-26 16:49:58.699056: /vehicles/WVWABCE1ZSD057394/status/accessStatus/doors/frontLeft/openState: new value: closed

Credentials

If you do not want to provide your username or password all the time you have to create a ".netrc" file at the appropriate location (usually this is your home folder):

machine volkswagen.de
login [e-mail]
password testpassword123

You can also provide the location of the netrc file using the --netrc option

Tested with

• Volkswagen ID.3 Modelyear 2021
• Volkswagen Passat GTE Modelyear 2021

Reporting Issues

Please feel free to open an issue at GitHub Issue page to report problems you found.

Known Issues

• The Tool is in alpha state and may change unexpectedly at any time!

Related Projects:

• WeConnect-MQTT: MQTT Client that publishes data from Volkswagen WeConnect
• WeConnect-python: Python API to connect to Volkswagen WeConnect Services