<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>I've deployed today a new feature for the ovms_server. It has already been committed to github and is now running live on both the tmc and www servers.</div><div><br></div><div>The feature is a web server running on port tcp/6868. The web server provides an api to the ovms system and allows remote clients to query it for data.</div><div><br></div><div>The first api released is 'group'. It works like this:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Issuing a web request for:<br><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://tmc.openvehicles.com:6868/group?id=">http://tmc.openvehicles.com:6868/group?id=</a></span>XXXXX<br><br></div><div>will return a KML document with place markers for all the cars in the specified group.</div><div><br></div><div>As an example, try:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <a href="http://tmc.openvehicles.com:6868/group?id=DEMOCARS">http://tmc.openvehicles.com:6868/group?id=DEMOCARS</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Or as an even more impressive example, try:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/">http://maps.google.com/</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(then put "<a href="http://tmc.openvehicles.com:6868/group?id=DEMOCARS">http://tmc.openvehicles.com:6868/group?id=DEMOCARS</a>" into the google maps search box)</div><div><br></div><div><i>Note that google maps has a nasty caching issue with it that you can get around by adding a "&random=<somerandomnumber>" on to the end of the url (to stop it caching old data).</i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can try it with your own cars by defining a social group as parameter #11 of the ovms module in your car. You can only define one group per car, but many cars can belong to the same group. Fun for meet-ups.</div><div><br></div><div>This is also useful if you want to publicise the location of your car. You should be able to create a google (or whatever) map on your web site, and pull-in the kml to show your car location and details.</div><div><br></div><div>At the moment, this is basically workable, but needs some polishing. We want to get the base car image in from the apps, and show a nice little pop-up web page for the details (at the moment, it just shows speed and altitude, which is not very interesting).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, Mark.</div><div><br></div></body></html>