TOtoomuchtodo·Aug 27, 2025
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teslamate-org / teslamate
teslamate
A self-hosted data logger for your Tesla 🚘 [main maintainer=@JakobLichterfeld]
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A self-hosted data logger for your Tesla 🚘 [main maintainer=@JakobLichterfeld]
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Observed mentions: 2019-07-24 20:16:03 UTC to 2025-08-27 20:06:33 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesThis could use an upgrade. Combining teslausb [1] for video retrieval and teslamate [2] for GPX retrieval, you could probably make this an automatic pipeline. Add in some "excluded locations" and I could see this as a full solution.
[1] https://github.com/marcone/teslausb
[2] https://github.com/teslamate-org/teslamate
In Turn a Tesla into a mapping vehicle with MapillaryYes you can see all of these metrics and more on the Tesla mobile app. There's also a handful of 3rd party Tesla apps that do even more.
https://www.tessie.com/
https://tezlabapp.com
https://teslafi.com
Or host your own: https://github.com/adriankumpf/teslamate
In Hyundai Head Unit HackingThis was a vulnerability in the default Grafana config [1] of https://github.com/adriankumpf/teslamate, which allows a Tesla owner to use the Tesla API on their own infra to log data from the vehicle. It appears Tesla deauthorized auth tokens en masse due to this [2].
[1] https://github.com/adriankumpf/teslamate/commit/fff6915e7364... (relevant commit)
[2] https://twitter.com/TezLabApp/status/1481180064926547969
In Teen hacker finds bug that lets him control 25 Teslas remotelyShow HN: TeslaMate – Self-hosted data logger for your Tesla (written in Elixir)
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