Whilst HomeAssistant provides an official component for Tesla vehicles, the component has not been updated recently, and does not have the sophistication of TeslaMate's polling mechanism, resulting in the component's default values keeping the vehicle awake and draining the battery.
The ultimate goal of this guide is to consume as much of the TeslaMate polling data as possible to replace the majority of the official Tesla component's polling functionality.
If your intention is to only use read-only sensor values, those provided by TeslaMate via MQTT are sufficient, and you do not need to utilise the official Tesla component. If however you would like to be able to write values to the Tesla API (Lock/Unlock Doors or automate Climate), there is a solution which involves configuring an extremely high polling interval for the Tesla component and using automation to populate the values from the TeslaMate MQTT parameters.
- Sensors: All sensors exposed by the Tesla component are available
- Locks: Not implemented
- Climate: Not implemented
The following provides an automation to update the location of the device_tracker.tesla_location tracker when new lat/lon values are published to MQTT. You can use this to:
- Plot the location of your Tesla on a map (see the ui-lovelace.yaml file for an example of this)
- Calculate the proximity of your Tesla to another location such as home (see configuration.yaml, below)
- alias: Update Tesla location as MQTT location updates
initial_state: on
trigger:
- platform: mqtt
topic: teslamate/cars/1/latitude
- platform: mqtt
topic: teslamate/cars/1/longitude
action:
- service: device_tracker.see
data_template:
dev_id: tesla_location
location_name: not_home
gps: [ '{{ states.sensor.tesla_latitude.state }}', '{{ states.sensor.tesla_longitude.state }}' ]Proximity sensors allow us to calculate the proximity of the Tesla device_tracker to defined zones. This can be useful for:
- Automatic Garage Door opening when you arrive home
- Notifications when the vehicle is arriving
automation: !include automation.yaml
proximity:
home_tesla:
zone: home
devices:
- device_tracker.tesla_location
tolerance: 10
unit_of_measurement: km
tesla:
username: !secret tesla_username
password: !secret tesla_password
scan_interval: 3600
sensor: !include sensor.yamlThis is required for the automation above (in the automation.yaml section). It defines the device_tracker object that we use to represent the location of your Tesla vehicle.
tesla_location:
hide_if_away: false
icon: mdi:car
mac:
name: Tesla
picture:
track: true- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_battery_level
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/battery_level"
unit_of_measurement: '%'
icon: mdi:battery-80
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_charge_energy_added
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/charge_energy_added"
unit_of_measurement: 'kW'
icon: mdi:battery-80
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_charge_limit
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/charge_limit_soc"
unit_of_measurement: '%'
icon: mdi:battery-80
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_charge_port_door_open
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/charge_port_door_open"
icon: mdi:car-door
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_charger_actual_current
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/charger_actual_current"
unit_of_measurement: 'A'
icon: mdi:battery-80
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_charger_phases
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/charger_phases"
icon: mdi:power-plug
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_charger_power
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/charger_power"
unit_of_measurement: 'W'
icon: mdi:power-plug
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_charger_voltage
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/charger_voltage"
unit_of_measurement: 'V'
icon: mdi:gauge
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_display_name
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/display_name"
icon: mdi:car
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_estimated_range
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/est_battery_range_km"
unit_of_measurement: 'km'
icon: mdi:map-marker-path
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_healthy
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/healthy"
icon: mdi:car-connected
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_ideal_range
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/ideal_battery_range_km"
unit_of_measurement: 'km'
icon: mdi:map-marker-path
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_inside_temp
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/inside_temp"
unit_of_measurement: °C
icon: mdi:thermometer-lines
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_latitude
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/latitude"
icon: mdi:crosshairs-gps
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_locked
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/locked"
icon: mdi:lock
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_longitude
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/longitude"
icon: mdi:crosshairs-gps
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_odometer
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/odometer"
unit_of_measurement: km
icon: mdi:gauge
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_outside_temp
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/outside_temp"
unit_of_measurement: °C
icon: mdi:thermometer-lines
- platform: template
sensors:
tesla_park_brake:
friendly_name: Park Brake
value_template: >-
{% if is_state('sensor.tesla_shift_state', 'P') %}
true
{% else %}
false
{% endif %}
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_plugged_in
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/plugged_in"
icon: mdi:power-plug
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_rated_range
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/rated_battery_range_km"
unit_of_measurement: 'km'
icon: mdi:map-marker-path
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_scheduled_charging_start
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/scheduled_charging_start_time"
icon: mdi:clock-outline
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_sentry_mode
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/sentry_mode"
icon: mdi:cctv
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_shift_state
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/shift_state"
icon: mdi:car-shift-pattern
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_speed
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/speed"
icon: mdi:speedometer
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_state
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/state"
icon: mdi:car-connected
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_time_to_full_charge
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/time_to_full_charge"
icon: mdi:clock-outline
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_windows_open
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/windows_open"
icon: mdi:car-door
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_version
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/version"
icon: mdi:alphabetical
- platform: mqtt
name: tesla_update_available
state_topic: "teslamate/cars/1/update_available"
icon: mdi:gift
The below is the Lovelace UI configuration used to make the example screenshot above. You will obviously want to configure this to your liking, however the example contains all of the sensors and values presented via MQTT and could be used as the basis of UI configuration.
- path: car
title: Car
badges: []
icon: 'mdi:car-connected'
cards:
- type: vertical-stack
cards:
- type: glance
entities:
- entity: sensor.tesla_battery_level
name: Battery Level
- entity: sensor.tesla_state
name: Car State
- entity: sensor.tesla_plugged_in
name: Plugged In
- type: glance
entities:
- entity: sensor.tesla_park_brake
name: Park Brake
- entity: sensor.tesla_sentry_mode
name: Sentry Mode
- entity: sensor.tesla_speed
name: Speed
- type: glance
entities:
- entity: sensor.tesla_healthy
name: Car Health
- entity: sensor.tesla_windows_open
name: Window Status
- type: horizontal-stack
cards:
- type: 'custom:button-card'
entity: sensor.tesla_locked
name: Charger Door
show_state: true
state:
- value: locked
icon: 'mdi:lock'
color: green
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: lock.unlock
service_data:
entity_id: lock.tesla_model_3_charger_door_lock
- value: unlocked
icon: 'mdi:lock-open'
color: red
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: lock.lock
service_data:
entity_id: lock.tesla_model_3_charger_door_lock
- type: 'custom:button-card'
entity: lock.tesla_door_lock
name: Car Door
show_state: true
state:
- value: locked
icon: 'mdi:lock'
color: green
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: lock.unlock
service_data:
entity_id: lock.tesla_model_3_door_lock
- value: unlocked
icon: 'mdi:lock-open'
color: red
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: lock.lock
service_data:
entity_id: lock.tesla_model_3_door_lock
- type: vertical-stack
cards:
- type: map
entities:
- device_tracker.tesla_location
- type: thermostat
entity: climate.tesla_model_3_hvac_climate_system
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: sensor.tesla_charge_limit
name: SOC Charge Limit
- entity: sensor.tesla_charge_energy_added
name: Last Charge Energy Added
- entity: sensor.tesla_odometer
name: Odometer
- entity: sensor.tesla_estimated_range
name: Estimated Range
- entity: sensor.tesla_rated_range
name: Rated Range
- entity: sensor.tesla_inside_temp
name: Tesla Temperature (inside)
- entity: sensor.tesla_outside_temp
name: Tesla Temperature (outside)
- entity: proximity.home_tesla
name: Distance to Home