Extending Car Monitoring - based off of Supercharged Wican Pro!

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Note the following screen shots, I have an older Dodge and a Wican Pro plugged into the ODB diagnostic port. The Wican connects to my home WiFi when in the driveway to quickly capture data when we arrive or leave home.

The Wican is also transmitting its own WiFi SSID.

I always have my phone with me with the HA companion app and WiFi is always turned on.

So you see where I am going with this... How can I get data Wican -> HA Companion App (which would then get the data into my HA server) while the car is running and not at home?

Below are some screen shots of a dashboard I built out in HA to monitor the car as well as a framework for alerts I've built that can be sent by SMS Text, Voice Phone Call (via Twilio), as well as HA Notifications and/or Persistent HA notifications. The alert pattern allows me to easily send any type of message to any set of predefined people.

Long story short, especially using AI these days, it is pretty easy to build out very sophisticated stuff in HA, so I'd like to take this to the next level and get data into HA while away from home via whatever APIs necessary without buying more hardware.

Thoughts?

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(Also I must say, the connectivity to my home network when the car is nearby needs some tweaking, typically the Wican connects most quickly to my home network only when the car is first turned on (and sometimes if we don't immediately leave after turning it on), not when it's been running a while and I pull into the driveway, possibly because the Wican would not continuously try to connect etc....)

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Not with the companion app.
You would need something else.

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Any ideas?

  1. If no hardware and the HA Companion app is walled off, then an Android Daemon that would make Wican API calls and then rest API calls to my HA server over the web...

  2. I do have an SD card in the Wican Pro and do not have enough experience with it yet... I thought I read that you or someone was suggesting collecting data to then be transmitted later to HA when the Wican is back on the local network...?

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I'm sure there's a way, but other than button presses and the sensors generated by the companion app nothing else can be passed back home thru the comp. app interface (I believe).
Doesn't mean you can build something that finds the wican on the network and pulls data or a separate app or something.
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WiCAN Pro supports backup stations and can be setup in the WiCAN web GUI. If you have a mobile hotspot with your cellphone, use that as a backup station. This is what I do and can confirm it works with iOS, at least. There were a couple quirks that needed sorted. First, I checked “maximum compatibility” on the HotSpot screen settings in iOS to force a 2.4G wifi signal. Second, be careful with your naming convention for the mobile hotspot SSID. For iPhones, the General Settings phone name is used. Mine was originally “Matt’s iPhone”. I had to change it to “Matt_iPhone”. I’m not sure if it was the space or the special character that it didn’t like, or maybe both, but now when I first start my SUV in the garage, it connects to home WiFi, when I get outside of my Home WiFi range, it switches over to the mobile hotspot. Works like a charm.