It seems like everyone does a yearly wrapped summary now, but for Teslemetry it's not just a look back at the year that was 2024, it's also exactly one year since I founded Teslemetry.
The origin story
I purchased a Tessie lifetime subscription only a few months earlier, and had just finished its Home Assistant integration, but I felt like I could do something more cost effective for the ten thousand people using the Tesla Custom integration who were going to soon be cut off from the Tesla Owners API.
Over the next month, I build the initial back end services, wrote the Tesla Fleet API python library, and got the Home Assistant integration merged in 2024.2.
On Febuary 10th, Teslemetry got its first user, and then on on April 1st it offically launched with a paid subscription for $5/quarter. Confident that the concept was viable, I started the website redesign and comissioned the Teslemetry logo, which both launched later that month on April 28th, followed by a short advertising campaign on Reddit.
By the numbers
Back in April, we celebrated our first 100 subscribers, who had at that time made 20 million requests to the Tesla Fleet API through Teslemetry. However at some point the milestones just kept slipping by, and now with our 800 users and 1000 vehicles connected, Teslemetry serves between 4 and 8 million requests per day.
So in the one year Teslemetry has operated, its users have made 640 million requests to the Tesla Fleet API, and the service has sent over 120 million real-time updates.
Whats next in 2025?
With Fleet API billing starting from Feburary 1st, ensuring Teslemetry remains financially viable is my top priority, which is why vehicle subscriptions are going into effect and data polling will be reduced from January 1st, and vehicle commands will be going into effect from Feburary 1st. During this time I will be taking every opportunity to further optimise the service to reduce costs for both the service and its users.
The next highest priority is to ensure that Teslemetry remains a great product for its users, so all the new streaming capabilities recently added to the custom Home Assistant integration will be added to progressively merged into Home Assistant core.
Tesla has already commited to adding all the vehicle_data fields to Fleet Telemetry, and to add Fleet Telemetry to older Model S and X vehicles,
so we have a fully real-time future to look forward to.
Thank you
I would like to thank all of Teslemetry's users for their support and feedback over the last year, as Teslemetry could not be where it is today without them. I look forward to continuing to providing secure and reliable access to Tesla products in 2025.
