tesla-gateway-getter

tesla-gateway-getter

The Tesla Powerwall Gateway exports an https + JSON endpoint which you can use to build dashboards with relevant energy information over time. The gateway uses an AuthToken which you present for every API call in order to return the raw data. This AuthToken is calculated and returned in a Cookie which makes GETing the API endpoints odd with something like telegraf since telegraf has no way of specifying which endpoint to auth with first in order to cache the resulting Cookie. I mean, there might be a way, but this seemed pretty easy.

This project grabs data from the gateway and pushes it to influxdb. Configuration is passed via environment variables, and a sample k8s deployment yaml is provided.

# To build
$ make

# To make the container and export the resulting image
$ make docker

# And because I'm lazy and don't want to run a registry on my k8s cluster
$  microk8s.ctr images import /tmp/tesla-gateway-getter-###.tar

# Create your secrets
$ microk8s kubectl create secret generic tesla-gw-getter-creds \
  --from-literal=TESLA_INFLUXBUCKET=<bucket name> \
  --from-literal=TESLA_INFLUXTOKEN=<user auth token with write access to bucket> \
  --from-literal=TESLA_INFLUXORG=<org id> \
  --from-literal=TESLA_INFLUXHOST=http://influxdb:8086  \
  --from-literal=TESLA_EMAIL=<the email address you registered with your gateway> \
  --from-literal=TESLA_PASSWORD=<password for the above> \
  --from-literal=TESLA_GATEWAY=https://<gateway ip>  \
  -n <your namespace>

# Create your deployment
$ microk8s.kubectl -n <your namespace> apply -f ./tesla-gateway-getter-deployment.yaml

There are probably easier ways of doing all of this like using helm or some tweaking of telegraf yaml. I find yaml infuriating. I need a T-square to know what is under what and even then it's a coin toss if the result will do the right thing. This felt way easier than arguing with yaml. Anyway, PRs are welcome if the easier way is implemented by someone else.

In the end you'll get something like this. The grafana dashboard is included.