Background
Hi All! First a quick background. I used to work as a data scientist and I have a lot of interest in data and stats. So when I recently took delivery of my first Tesla in September, I tried looking for a comprehensive stats app I could use to look up interesting data around my car. However, I am also a cheapskate and didn't want to pay for mobile apps and although I did find a couple useful desktop apps that were free, they didn't contain all the stats I was looking for. Therefore I decided to create my own!
I am mainly creating this dashboard for my benefit but if there are interest from others, I thought why not share it as well. Although I just recently started development, I thought I'd gauge public interest early on as It's easier to develop with the audience in mind early in the development process. For example, if there is no public interest there is no reason for me to make the dashboard user friendly.
Also, if there is a comprehensive and free stats app out there please let me know so I'm not duplicating work.
Dashboard
Although it's only been 2 days, here's what the dashboard looks like so far.
Current and planned stats
So far I have the following:
- Trends of Range and Battery % Level
- Trends of Range and Driving efficiency
- Phantom Battery loss per day stats
- Miles per day stats
- Charging stats per charging sessions (i.e. time spent charging, charge added, charging rate, etc.)
- Battery availability (apparently you're not always able to use 100% of your battery)
Planned stats:
- Battery and Range efficiency based on climate
- Climate vs Power usage stats
- Driving patterns (highway vs city) and battery efficiency
- Efficiency stats around based on Car software version
- Charging history based on Location
- Trip data
- I'm also open to any other suggestions that might be useful as well
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Completely Free
- Data is locally stored so no privacy issues
- Uses publicly available API so no need for Raspberry Pi
Cons:
- Limited to Windows for now but can branch out in the future if there is interest
- Requires a moderate knowledge of computer usage (downloading from github and running a script). Can also make this more user friendly in the future if there is interest
- Data can't be accessed away from your computer yet but I'm looking into options for better user experience
- Data cannot be collected when your computer is off
- Users will need to pull new updates to the dashboard instead of getting pushed updates. Also looking into options for better user experience around this
Release timeline
I'm working full time so I'm mainly working on this project during my downtime. There will need to be time for development and testing. If there is enough interest in the dashboard, I can probably get an initial version out on Github in the next month or so.
Let me know if you guys are interested or if I'm just completely wasting my time and there is a better app out there! Any suggestions on what type of data you guys are interested are welcome!
Hi All! First a quick background. I used to work as a data scientist and I have a lot of interest in data and stats. So when I recently took delivery of my first Tesla in September, I tried looking for a comprehensive stats app I could use to look up interesting data around my car. However, I am also a cheapskate and didn't want to pay for mobile apps and although I did find a couple useful desktop apps that were free, they didn't contain all the stats I was looking for. Therefore I decided to create my own!
I am mainly creating this dashboard for my benefit but if there are interest from others, I thought why not share it as well. Although I just recently started development, I thought I'd gauge public interest early on as It's easier to develop with the audience in mind early in the development process. For example, if there is no public interest there is no reason for me to make the dashboard user friendly.
Also, if there is a comprehensive and free stats app out there please let me know so I'm not duplicating work.
Dashboard
Although it's only been 2 days, here's what the dashboard looks like so far.
Current and planned stats
So far I have the following:
- Trends of Range and Battery % Level
- Trends of Range and Driving efficiency
- Phantom Battery loss per day stats
- Miles per day stats
- Charging stats per charging sessions (i.e. time spent charging, charge added, charging rate, etc.)
- Battery availability (apparently you're not always able to use 100% of your battery)
Planned stats:
- Battery and Range efficiency based on climate
- Climate vs Power usage stats
- Driving patterns (highway vs city) and battery efficiency
- Efficiency stats around based on Car software version
- Charging history based on Location
- Trip data
- I'm also open to any other suggestions that might be useful as well
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Completely Free
- Data is locally stored so no privacy issues
- Uses publicly available API so no need for Raspberry Pi
Cons:
- Limited to Windows for now but can branch out in the future if there is interest
- Requires a moderate knowledge of computer usage (downloading from github and running a script). Can also make this more user friendly in the future if there is interest
- Data can't be accessed away from your computer yet but I'm looking into options for better user experience
- Data cannot be collected when your computer is off
- Users will need to pull new updates to the dashboard instead of getting pushed updates. Also looking into options for better user experience around this
Release timeline
I'm working full time so I'm mainly working on this project during my downtime. There will need to be time for development and testing. If there is enough interest in the dashboard, I can probably get an initial version out on Github in the next month or so.
Let me know if you guys are interested or if I'm just completely wasting my time and there is a better app out there! Any suggestions on what type of data you guys are interested are welcome!