Better than Stellantis App

Check this app out, looks much much better and more info than the Stellantis app, as for reliability still looking, also don’tknow if the commands work as I don’t have connect.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.pitasi.mycarvision.

It might be better, but I think it requires payment. Only 5 days are free.
Generally, it works with the services, but I haven’t checked everything yet. Logging in using a DS account.

I’m in the middle of installing Home Assistant. I will let you know how it works out.

5 days free, all I see is buy the developer a coffee, and some ads on the play store download page.
Some data is missing and I think you need the DS app installed to get it to register.

I know I have something better that MyDS now. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Installed Home Assistant on my 24/7 server at home and I can get all sensors and such directly on my iphone.
I’m gonna add more info and stats later.

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Jay, so this is just a regular Home Assistant apps for smart home devices like thermostats, lights etc, and the DS can connect since it uses some open standard comms or did you have to do something clever in the car? Interesting. I assume it is just reading data, rather than providing any sort of control for things like aircon, locking, etc ?

… and it shows the SOH, which I thought could only be read at a DS Service Centre ? Neat.

Yep, it’s the regular home smart app, but you need either a home server running the application or I think you can buy it as a cloud service as well.
I did not have to do anything in the car.
I think I read something about remote features as well but I haven’t looked at that part since I can only control the pre-conditioning remotely and that will stop working anyway when they shut down the last 3G network soon.
The login was a bit tricky because stellantis is stellantis. I had to grab the oauth from the regular login to the DS webpage, even though there is an easier way implemented but I didn’t get that to work.

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Nice. I presume the car talks to the Home Assistant over the local home wifi, so maybe that could make pre-conditioning etc a bit more reliable than doing it over mobile 3G network.

I wish.
I have a condo on 4th floor and no windows (nor wall) towards the yard with the car park, so wifi does not reach my car.

I just love to see clever people out there than me, not really diifcult!
@Jay, I must admit that the way the ‘MyCarVision’ app access the data from the car got me thinking…a lot, but now you have shown there are other ways, I’m thinking even more.:thinking:.

Usng Excel, I’ve been keeping records of every kW & Litre of petrol, electric & hybrid journeys since buying the car, with in hope that I will see when the traction battery start to deteriorate. I’m currently converting that to a small android app to give me a nice display. So, any tips or tricks, to cut down my thinking time would be appreciated as it would be nice to add a few features. Even though, I notice the ‘MyCarVision’ doesn’t show charge history.

If you setup a Home Assistant, you don’t need to track the deterioration from what I can tell. There’s a value that tells you that.

And you don’t have to have a big windows server to run it from, you could just set it up on a small raspberry or something similar. Or just buy the " Home Assistant Green" box.
I don’t know your tech skills level. :smile:

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