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So, I cracked Fiddler out and had a look… At first glance, the API seems secure (hurrah). It’s all HTTPS and although after logging in the requests still take your username or VIN, if you change them (I tried to my wife’s) the requests fail. Good stuff.
The service lives here:
https://rno-smartgtw.viaaq.eu/aqPortal/B2CSmartphoneProxy/
https://rno-smartgtw.viaaq.eu/aqPortal/B2CSmartphoneProxy/UserService – handles login, some localisation(!) and updating notification settings
https://rno-smartgtw.viaaq.eu/aqPortal/B2CSmartphoneProxy/EvDashboardService – handles battery info, including sending requests for updated status
https://rno-smartgtw.viaaq.eu/aqPortal/B2CSmartphoneProxy/RemoteOperation – handles operations (turn AC on, etc.)Eg. a request to turn the AC on now is an HTTP POST that looks like this (I’ve removed my VIN/SessionID and changed the angle brackets to square brackets to avoid upsetting the forum):
POST https://rno-smartgtw.viaaq.eu/aqPortal/B2CSmartphoneProxy/RemoteOperation HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 User-Agent: Android/5.1 Content-Length: 399 Host: rno-smartgtw.viaaq.eu Connection: Keep-Alive Cookie: $Version=0; JSESSIONID=###session id###; $Path=/aqPortal [?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?] [ns2:SmartphoneRemoteHVACActivationRequest xmlns:ns1="urn:com:renault:gdc:type:portalcommon:v1" xmlns:ns2="urn:com:airbiquity:smartphone.Remoteoperation:v1"] [ns1:VehicleServiceRequestHeader] [ns1:VIN]###my vin###[/ns1:VIN] [ns1:Caller]SMARTPHONE-APP[/ns1:Caller] [/ns1:VehicleServiceRequestHeader] [/ns2:SmartphoneRemoteHVACActivationRequest]The API should probably be pretty stable, because if they change it, existing versions of the app will break. Any breaking changes, they’d need to release an updated app, then ensure “everyone” is updated before unleashing. This means for building your own app, should be pretty solid.
I don’t know how Renault would feel about me building an app though… Although I don’t think it could do any harm, some companies are a bit protective of their APIs 🙁
In reply to: A delighted owner
Been there with the battery alarm. I’d covered 76miles on maybe 88% battery (no home charger until yesterday).
The 100+ mile trip I had planned on Saturday (but fell through to I’ll child) is taking place tomorrow. Might bottle it at 80-ish miles because there is a handy rapid in Perth I’ve not tested yet.
In reply to: Would you allow others to charge at your house?
I was with EDF before we moved house, and BG already supllied Taylor Wimpy when we moved in. Gonna keep my eyes on it and swap around though; it’s so simple to do, and all the energy companies are scumbags that don’t let you have their cheapest tariff unless you keep on top of things 🙁
Ofgen(?) should force them to always put you on the cheapest tariff every month; having many tariffs don’t benefit the consumer, they just serve as a way to rip consumers off that don’t wish to spend time keeping in top of things. Same goes with mobile phones… and Renault Battery Rental 😉
In reply to: ZE App mass email complaint.
Let you use all the BHP for a rapid 0-60. Rather than the fast 0-30 and computer reduced 30-60. Make it default to switch off again after 12hours say.
Not sure what this means; I don’t notice any difference in power at 30mph; and if I keep my foot to the floor, the dial on the dash seems to suggest I’m still getting all the power?
My biggest gripe about the app is that it’s not possible to get real time charge percentages from the car. The adverts for the car say that you can check how far your car has charged when you are in the services and this doesn’t work.
It’s not “real time”, but there is a button you can press in the Battery section to “request” an update… Sometimes takes 5 mins though, and other times fails to come through.
The whole app os sloppy… there seems to be more info about the battery/charge on the Home screen than the Battery screen!
In reply to: Haunted Cow impersonation?!?
2 thoughts on your issue.
when the car ‘shuts down’ (about 10/15 mins after you switch everything off with ignition and keys removed) the external air vent near the passenger footwell makes a noise when it closes
or
the batteries have their own fan that very occasionally kicks in even if the car is not on charge. I assume this is just for battery cooling…
maybe your moooooooooooo noise was one of these…
In reply to: remote heater activation
Just realised that they’ve used about 3% of the battery which would be more than the distance to move to workshop even wheel spinning all the way. So maybe it’s fixed already and they’ve checked it as there is a long road into dealership with a roundabout at the end, probably about a mile and a half all in so it could possibly be fixed and tested. Here is hoping. It’s been a long day so far but it’s shaping up ok so far.
I have it intermittently as well with the “check hill start assist” and “check esc”.
Renault cannot find anything.
Seems to happen generally when the battery is full, car not driven for a while and when i touch the brakes ever so lightly.
Regen then doesn’t work well when the problem appears.
Stop the car, turn it off, lock it, leave it a couple of minutes, and then it usually clears
In reply to: Would you allow others to charge at your house?
Presumably, Dan, as a zero emissions driver you’ve got some affinity to renewable energy too? Or is driving an EV all about the economics of it for you? (Which would be reasonable too!)
I’m all for renewable energy but there is a limit on how much extra I’d pay for it. I did check prices for Ecotricity a while back but it seemed quite considerably higher than what I was paying. When I did the search on uswitch last week I did scan down the list hoping to see them but they either weren’t on uswitch or weren’t cheaper than my current supplier (which would mean costing at least £130/year more than the supplier I switched to).
We couldn’t have managed without Ecotricity for the last 3 weeks, so I’d love to give them my business and a bit of cash, but over £10/month would better fund an additional 200 miles/month on my battery rental 😉
Will definitely keep my eyes on them when I do check prices though; I’d love to be “all green”, if for no other reason than to shut up the morons that keep telling me my electric car is no cleaner than their petrol one ;O(
In reply to: Would you allow others to charge at your house?
As above, if you run a 7kWh charger for an hour, you’ll have used 7 kWh.
No, not really. It’s called a 7kW charger (there’s no such thing as a ‘7kWh charger’) because that it’s rating, it’s really another way of saying the maximum power it can provide at any moment. The only way it could provide 7kWh in an hour is if it ran at maximum power for the whole hour. The actual rate it charges at depends on how full the battery is (as per the discussions about charging curves). So a better measure is how many kWh it takes to fill the battery – 22kWh plus some wasted – not trying to work out exactly how much power the charger provides at any particular point.
In reply to: Two EVs, and our charge point doesn't work
It’s a shame the installers don’t have these test units!
Having seen how simple they are, I really don’t know why they don’t. I assumed they’d need a big battery/capacity or something, but actually it’s just some electronics to do the “handshake” and a socket he plugged a fan heater into that can draw a current (and he had a readout of what it was pulling). Seems simple now you think about it. Really no excuse for installers to not have them!
Took them a long time though, just because its finally fixed no reason to heap praise on them
Credit wher it’s due though; the guy that came out was really nice, and had no part in how long it took.
I’m just really relieved to have a working charger; our recent journey to Southport required three stops (we always stop at 80% on rapids, and didn’t start with a full charge, and I needed a full charge for the next day) but is actually only 76 miles, which is much less than the 96 mile estimate I get now. So it’s now doable with 0 stops 🙂
Good luck to those having theirs installed tomorrow!
