Direct ScanMyTesla connection

bassmaster187 / TeslaLogger

TeslaLogger is a self hosted data logger for your Tesla Model S/3/X/Y. Actually it supports RaspberryPi 3B, 3B+, 4B, Docker and Synology NAS.

https://www.teslalogger.de

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Direct ScanMyTesla connection #813

Closed flosoft closed 2 years ago

flosoft commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently using ScanMyTesla requires the data to be sent to teslalogger.de and then forwarded on to the TeslaLogger instance.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be great to be able to have support for direct ingestion from ScanMyTesla, without sending data through teslalogger.de, assuming that the mobile device running ScanMyTesla has direct access to TeslaLogger (HTTP(S)) - i.e. reverse proxy, exposed port or VPN.

bassmaster187 commented 2 years ago

To help keep the connection problems very low we decided not to offer a direct connection. So we can get rid of question like:

how can I configure my router?
how to get a certificate
why don't I get any data
why is Netflix stutter now
why....

It is very common to have a proxy server if two clients are behind a router / firewall. Any chat client like Whatsapp or Teamviewer are using proxy server.

flosoft commented 2 years ago

agreed that this shouldn't be the default approach, but it would be nice to have the option, even if it requires some more manual configuration.

bassmaster187 commented 2 years ago

If anybody would want to spent his spare time to support this kind of problems, I would implement this, but I spend a lot of my spare time with Teslalogger bugs I made bymyself :-) I don't want to waste my spare time supporting unneccesary features or features used by just a couple of users.