#Alexa Skills for Tesla (in Node.js)

An implementation in Node.js of the client side interface to the Tesla Model S API documented at:

http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/

This is unofficial documentation of the Tesla Model S REST API used by the iOS and Android apps. It features functionality to monitor and control the Model S remotely. Documentation is provided on the Apiary.io site linked above.

#Installation

To use these programs you must download and install 'node' from http://nodejs.org . Once node is installed, use the included 'npm' utility to download and install the teslams tools and all it's dependent modules

npm install -g teslams

or if you are not logged in as the root (administrator) use:

sudo npm install -g teslams

Need to install

• .bash_profile for env variables
• AWS cli tools
• Python and PIP
• Serverless for deployments
• Visual Studio (open source)
• teslams
• alexa-sdk
• lambda-local (https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx24Z2QZP5RRTG1/New-Alexa-Technical-Tutorial-Debugging-AWS-Lambda-Code-Locally ) npm install -g lambda-local
• geocoder
• google-matrix
• dotenv (for credentials and home location)
• need to setup AWS account, and alexa SDK account

#deployments

I use serverless. So you need to install it. Then update the serverless.yml file

	service: alexaSkills

	provider:
	name: aws
	runtime: nodejs4.3
	profile: production
	memorySize: 512
	region: us-east-1
	stage: dev


	# you can add packaging information here
	package:
	exclude: speechAssets, functions, speechAssets, tests
	#  artifact: my-service-code.zip

	functions:
	tesla:
		handler: index.handle
		description: "Tesla Skills Application (serverless deployment)"
		timeout: 5