Home automation display

This is part of my home automation system. It runs on a Raspberry Pi with a 7" touchscreen display (800x480). It shows the electricity price, and you can remotely heat up the cars. Currently, BMW works but the Mitsubishi PHEV requires some more work.

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Blog posts

• Building a home automation system (part 1)
• Connecting the cars (part 2)

Setup

Install Colin Bendell's BMW package:

npm install -g https://github.com/colinbendell/bmw

Set your ConnectedDrive credentials to ~/.bmw:

[default]
email=email@example.com
password=password
geo=row

Install fastapi and uvicorn:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the server:

uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8990