[Ovmsdev] Using the BMW Connecteddrive API from OVMS

[Michael Balzer]

Steve,

as Chris already said, if it's an opt-in feature the user needs to 
actively confirm, I don't see an issue with including it.

Regarding HTTP requests, the current approach would be either using the 
new OvmsNetHttpAsyncClient class (components/ovms_netlib/ovms_nethttp), 
or using Mongoose directly.

OvmsNetHttpAsyncClient is meant as a replacement for the old http-only 
OvmsHttpClient (main/ovms_http), but hasn't been used in the master 
branch yet. There is some new work on this in the for-v3.3 branch by 
Chris regarding timeout handling, but the class should work in master as 
well.

An example on using the Mongoose TCP API is in the Pushover class, and 
another one in the DuktapeHTTPRequest class using the Mongoose HTTP API.

Mark has included a JSON parser in the for-v3.3 branch, if you need one, 
have a look at that first.

Regards,
Michael


Am 19.02.21 um 09:29 schrieb Steve Davies:
> Hi,
>
> One way to "command" the BMW/Mini cars is with the BMW ConnectedDrive 
> app.    This talks to REST APIs on BMW servers around the place.
>
> This API has been sniffed by others and seems simple to use.
>
> The actual delivery of the command to the car is deathly slow - at 
> least here in South Africa.  I think it actually sends the car an SMS 
> to kick things off.  And it doesn't always work.  Still, it does allow 
> things like unlock / lock / climatise and what have you.
>
> I expect I can come up with some sort of "noop" operation that boils 
> down to "wake up the car" which would be helpful to get fresh state 
> from the car from time to time.
>
> Would you be OK with taking a PR for the bmwi3 vehicle module that 
> uses this?
>
> Are there any available frameworks for calling HTTP/JSON/REST APIs 
> from the C++ code?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
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