Tessie Tesla Control

Tessie Skill

Control your Tesla vehicles via Tessie API - a Tesla management platform with 500,000+ users.

Setup

Get your Tessie API credentials:

1. Go to https://tessie.com/developers

2. Sign up and create an API key

3. Configure in Clawdbot:

skills:
  entries:
    tessie:
      apiKey: "your-tessie-api-key-here"

Or via environment variable:

export TESSIE_API_KEY="your-tessie-api-key-here"

Note: Vehicle ID and VIN are auto-detected from API. No manual configuration needed.

Capabilities

Vehicle Status

• -Battery level: Current state of charge percentage
• -Range: Estimated driving range
• -Location: Current vehicle coordinates
• -Vehicle state: Locked/unlocked, charging status, sleep mode
• -Connection: Is the car online/offline?

Climate Control

• -Start/stop: Turn climate on or off
• -Preheat/precool: Set cabin temperature (auto-detects Fahrenheit/Celsius)
• -Defrost: Defrost windows/mirrors

Charging

• -Start/stop: Control charging remotely
• -Charge limit: Set daily/standard charge limit
• -Charging status: Current rate, time to complete, battery level

Drives

• -Recent drives: Last trips with distance, energy, locations

Usage Examples

Check battery and range
"tessie battery"
"tessie how much charge"
"tessie range"

Preheat the car (assumes Fahrenheit if > 50)
"tessie preheat 72"
"tessie precool"
"tessie turn on climate"

Check drives
"tessie show my drives"
"tessie recent drives"
"tessie drives 5"

Charging commands
"tessie start charging"
"tessie stop charging"
"tessie set charge limit to 90%"
"tessie charging status"

Vehicle location
"tessie where is my car"
"tessie location"

Vehicle state
"tessie is the car locked?"
"tessie vehicle status"

API Endpoints (Tessie)

Authentication

All requests require:

Authorization: Bearer <api-key>

Get Vehicles

GET https://api.tessie.com/vehicles

Returns full vehicle list with last_state embedded

Get Drives

GET https://api.tessie.com/{VIN}/drives?limit=10

Returns recent drive history

Get Idles

GET https://api.tessie.com/{VIN}/idles?limit=10

Returns parked sessions with climate/sentry usage

Commands

All control commands use VIN (not vehicle_id):

POST https://api.tessie.com/{VIN}/command/{command}

Available commands:

• -start_climate, stop_climate, set_temperatures
• -start_charging, stop_charging, set_charge_limit
• -lock, unlock, enable_sentry, disable_sentry
• -activate_front_trunk, activate_rear_trunk
• -open_windows, close_windows, vent_windows

Full list: See https://developer.tessie.com

Notes

• -Tessie acts as a middleman between you and Tesla's API
• -Provides richer data and analytics than raw Tesla API
• -Requires Tesla account to be linked to Tessie first
• -API uses VIN for commands (auto-detected)
• -All temperatures in Celsius internally
• -NOT YET DEPLOYED - Prepared for deployment pending user review