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Implement the Streaming API for improved data accuracy while driving

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#539 opened on Mar 14, 2023

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Description

Currently data-updates while driving appear to be limited to a 60-second refresh timeout. There is a streaming API that is available while the vehicle is in motion, this will give near-real-time updates to the following: speed,odometer, soc, elevation, est_heading est_lat, est_lng, power, shift_state, range, est_range, heading

A reference implementation of this is available (via TeslaMate, in Ruby). https://github.com/adriankumpf/teslamate/commit/a691784926eed4c6ac08b98b2d8c60f1b7950d89#diff-9f70483b27cf0755e732038378b0d7682e404eca39594eddd76036c3b0d7a772

Note this appears to mirror the approach taken by the official Tesla app.

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Research direction
Study the Tesla streaming API endpoint and the reference implementation in TeslaMate (Ruby). Then implement a similar Python client for the Tesla custom integration.
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python
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backendapi
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