The Tesla Owner API Isn't Dead — Your TLS Version Is
It was supposed to be a five-minute config change. It ended at 4 in the morning, staring at a TLS handshake and finally understanding why my car (and AI assistant) had been lying to me for five hours. Here's the whole thing, because the punchline is a failure mode I'd never seen and won't forget. The backstory: a metered API I wanted off of A while back I migrated my self-hosted TeslaMate from Tesla's old Owner API to the newer Fleet API. (Long story. Don't ask.) The Fleet API is metered — Tesla bills per request against a $10/month credit — and TeslaMate, by design, polls your car relentlessly. The bill made the case all by itself: ...