OnStarJS Alternatives

OnStarJS reviews and mentions

• Help with understanding how to use Node library
  1 project | /r/node | 7 Dec 2023
• Chevrolet Bolt Sales Are Up 280 Percent. Too Bad I've Moved On
  1 project | /r/BoltEV | 26 May 2023

  OnStar is vastly overpriced given the extremely limited low-quality services it provides. Compare to FordPass, which lets you do stuff like change climate control settings remotely, vs. the Bolt's "whatever mode you were last in, that's what you're gonna get". FordPass also doesn't use cryptographic stunts to lock out anything but their crappy app like GM does - https://github.com/samrum/OnStarJS/commits/master/src/onStarAppConfig.json

• Alternative to myChevrolet app
  1 project | /r/BoltEV | 25 Jan 2023

  There is an API. Its use by 3rd-party apps is not supported, but that hasn't stopped people from building stuff to leverage it. Here is an excellent place to start if you're interested in building something - https://github.com/samrum/OnStarJS

• Did Chevy block access to third party apps???
  1 project | /r/BoltEV | 17 Nov 2022

  https://github.com/samrum/OnStarJS/commits/master/src/onStarAppConfig.json - OnstarJS operates by impersonating the official app, which as you can see from the commit history changes its crypto keys often. My guess would be that detecting an "old" app doing things an outdated MyChevrolet app would not do (as opposed to bitching at you to update) would be easy.

• Over-The-Air Updates coming to Chevy Bolt
  1 project | /r/BoltEV | 25 Oct 2022

  Being told that I, as a private owner, mean nothing to them is infuriating - and their Developer Relations page at https://developer.gm.com/vehicle-apis makes it explicitly clear that they only care about fleet customers. Private owners who want to integrate with HomeAssistant get to play endless cryptographic cat-and-mouse with GM - https://github.com/samrum/OnStarJS/commits/master/src/onStarAppConfig.json

• Trying to test a script but unable to do so
  1 project | /r/node | 4 Oct 2022
• Confirmed: 2022 Ioniq 5 in Canada will not receive any updates to enable battery preconditionning.
  2 projects | /r/electricvehicles | 13 Sep 2022

  https://developer.gm.com/vehicle-apis - "Fleet owners only. Private owners can go pound sand". Leading to constant cryptographic cat-and-mouse: https://github.com/samrum/OnStarJS/commits/4f381e50e4795aef2fbdb831b1cb4aa7090fcb96/src/onStarAppConfig.json

• Can the New Chevy Bolt EUV Win Back America’s Trust?
  1 project | /r/BoltEV | 4 Aug 2022

  GM also explicitly tells private owners that GM doesn't care about them - https://developer.gm.com/vehicle-apis - GM makes it very clear they only care about fleet customers. Are you a private owner who wants to integrate with HomeAssistant? Enjoy the endless game of cryptographic cat-and-mouse ( https://github.com/samrum/OnStarJS/commits/master/src/onStarAppConfig.json ) because GM goes out of their way to try and block such use cases.

• Why doesn't the myChevrolet widget work?
  1 project | /r/BoltEV | 18 Jul 2022

  2) GM's developer documentation basically says that private owners like ourselves can go f*** ourselves, they only care about commercial fleet customers. https://developer.gm.com/vehicle-apis Private owners have the app and that's it - and GM goes out of their way to make sure we only have the app - see the endless whack-a-mole the OnstarJS maintainer plays on an average of roughly once a month: https://github.com/samrum/OnStarJS/commits/master/src/onStarAppConfig.json

• Any workaround to fetch charge status remotely for free?
  2 projects | /r/BoltEV | 4 Jul 2022
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