Based on information from https://github.com/kaedenbrinkman/rivian-api.
See https://github.com/the-mace/rivian-ruby-api for a Ruby version
After a number of tests, polling appears not to impact the sleep state of the vehicle unlike the behavior of other vendors.
The CLI has a polling option (--poll) which you can experiment with yourself, but leaving the vehicle alone from a polling perspective or constantly hitting it via the API appears to have no impact on when it goes to sleep.
You can modify polling frequency etc with the CLI options. Be careful as polling too frequently can cause your account to get locked out.
It's strongly recommended that you use a non-primary driver account for API access to avoid locking yourself out of your account and being unable to reset it on your own (by deleting/readding the secondary).
Polling was also possible during a software update with no disruption to the update and it's possible to monitor software update progress that way.
I have not yet tested/completed actions like "Open Frunk" (see --command option in CLI)
Rivian has greatly limited the utility of this for third parties because:
- They limit you to 2 phones per vehicle
- Actions are cryptographically signed by the registered phones and validated
- You can't move/use your signature from your phone, so you need to register a new "phone" (the API) to do actions, thus giving up one of the 2 precious phone slots.
- With more than one driver this is very limiting
So while technically possible to remotely control the vehicle via API, the utility is greatly limited due to Rivian's approach.
Note you can definitely argue that their approach is more secure than that of other vendors, but it also limits the ability to extend the owners experience through third party products.
- There does not appear to be an API call that returns
speedfor the vehicle. With odometer and polling you can calculate it. Example in the CLI - If you lock yourself out of your account by asking for too much data too often (note that this isnt that easy to do) you'll get a response like:
{'errors': [{'extensions': {'code': 'RATE_LIMIT'}, 'message': 'See server logs for error details', 'path': ['vehicleState']}], 'data': {'vehicleState': None}}
If thats on your primary account you'll need to involve Rivian support to get it unlocked and that will take time etc. Best to use a secondary account for API access.
Python 3 pip
Without additional authentication the API and CLI can only monitor your Rivian (when you use the API or issue CLI commands).
They have no ability to do the actions (see above) to unlock, enable drive, etc.
Some information returned by the API from Rivian and to the screen by the CLI is personally identifiable information (PII) such as addresses, email addresses, GPS coordinates, etc.
There are some options in the CLI to hide some of that but consider your data before sharing in public places.
The API does nothing in terms of storage of credentials etc.
The CLI supports the login flow including multi-factor authentication communicating directly with Rivian.
It does not preserve your email or password.
It does save your authentication tokens (locally on your machine in rivian_auth.pickle)
to make it possible to run subsequent commands without logging in again.
To remove your authentication information (again only on your machine) delete the rivian_auth.pickle file.
No data is sent or stored anywhere other than your machine or directly at Rivian according to their understood API behavior.
Feel free to review the code to verify the above.
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pip install -r requirements.txt
Note: For any actions with the CLI you'll need to login, see login information below.
The CLI is meant to be an example of API usage as well as to provide some useful outputs to see what your vehicle is reporting. The CLI is not meant to be a full-blown application.
For simplicity, the CLI will "guess" at which vehicle it should be talking to for responses.
You can specify a specific vehicle (and avoid some extra API calls) using --vehicle_id
There's intentionally no multi-vehicle support other than the above, the CLI is a limited test bed / example of API use.
In most cases CLI output shows a subset of overall response data. Use --verbose to see
all the infor returned by the API for the given call.
bin/rivian_cli --login
Login, will interactively prompt for MFA if needed.
Expects RIVIAN_USERNAME and RIVIAN_PASSWORD in shell environment.
bin/rivian_cli --vehicle_orders
bin/rivian_cli --vehicle_orders --privacy
bin/rivian_cli --vehicle_orders --verbose
bin/rivian_cli --state
bin/rivian_cli --poll
Plan trip will create a basic visualization of the route and charge stops. MAPBOX_API_KEY needs to be set in .env
bin/rivian_cli --plan_trip 85,225,40.5112,-89.0559,39.7706,-104.9530
bin/rivian_cli --help
- Supports authentication with and without OTP (interactive terminal)
- Saves login information in a .pickle file to avoid login each time (login once, then run other commands)