mg4/server

Nils' MG4 — car server

A small Go service at car.k8s.stinnesbeck.com: the API the car writes to, and the ABRP forwarder. Data lives in InfluxDB 2; Grafana reads it from there for the dashboards (../k8s/grafana/).

car ──live telemetry───▶ server ──▶ ABRP  api.iternio.com/1/tlm/send
    ──daily chunks─────▶   │
    ──charging sessions▶   ▼
                       InfluxDB 2 ◀── Grafana

Configuration

Environment only; the server refuses to start when a required value is missing.

Name	Notes
INFLUX_URL, INFLUX_TOKEN, INFLUX_ORG	required; the token needs read/write on the bucket
INFLUX_BUCKET	default mg4
INGEST_TOKEN	required, at least 24 characters: openssl rand -hex 32
ABRP_API_KEY, ABRP_USER_TOKEN	optional; both needed to forward
ABRP_MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS	default 5
APPROVAL_PASSWORD	optional, at least 12 characters; switches pairing on (see below)
PUBLIC_URL	the address a phone uses, for the pairing QR code; derived from the request if empty
LISTEN_ADDR	default :8080

The ABRP credentials never reach the car.

Endpoints

The ingest endpoints accept Authorization: Bearer <token> with either the shared INGEST_TOKEN or a paired car's own token. A paired token only works for the installation id it was paired with (403 otherwise); the shared token works for any.

• POST /v1/telemetry — { installationId, samples: [...] }, up to 500 samples in ABRP's tlm field names and units (utc in epoch seconds; flags as 0/1 or booleans). Unknown fields are dropped, known ones bounded: a value out of range is dropped on its own, and a sample without a plausible time (before 2001, or more than an hour ahead) is dropped whole. The rest is stored and the answer is 200 {stored, droppedCount, dropped}, even when nothing was usable, since the car would only send it again. The newest sample is forwarded to ABRP if it is under 5 minutes old and not ahead of the server's clock. A car that sends to ABRP itself adds abrpSentUtc, the newest sample ABRP took from it; only samples newer than that are forwarded, so ABRP gets each one once.
• PUT /v1/consumption/daily — one delta chunk of a day's consumption.
• PUT /v1/charging-sessions/{sessionId} — a finished DC session with its curve.
• GET /v1/consumption/history/{installationId} — the car reads its own totals back.
• GET /v1/health — {"status":"ok"}.

A malformed request is a 400 naming the field; a database failure is a 500 without detail.

Pairing a car by QR code

So nobody types a token in the car. Modelled on the OAuth device authorization grant (RFC 8628); on only when APPROVAL_PASSWORD is set.

1. The car calls POST /v1/pair/start {installationId} and shows the returned verificationUriComplete as a QR code, plus the short userCode (e.g. K7F-3QX).
2. The phone opens /pair?code=…, the owner checks the code and approves with the approval password. Five wrong passwords from one address lock that address out for a minute; other addresses are unaffected (the address is the last X-Forwarded-For entry, which Traefik sets). An address may hold three open requests; a car starting again replaces its own.
3. The car polls POST /v1/pair/poll {deviceCode}: 202 pending, 200 with its own token (handed out once), 403 denied, 410 expired (after 10 minutes) or unknown.

Each car gets its own 43-character token; only its SHA-256 is stored (measurement device in the same bucket), and the token is only handed out, and only accepted, once the device is persisted, so a restart never loses a paired car. Manage cars with the approval password:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $APPROVAL_PASSWORD" https://car.k8s.stinnesbeck.com/v1/devices
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $APPROVAL_PASSWORD" https://car.k8s.stinnesbeck.com/v1/devices/<id>/revoke

Storage

One bucket, installationId tag on every point:

Measurement	Timestamp	Tags	Fields
telemetry	sample utc	—	the ABRP fields that were sent
consumption_chunk	recordedAt	date	km, kwh, hours, socDrop, sohPercent
charging_session	startedAt	sessionId	endedAtMs, duration, energy, cost, start/end SOC
charging_curve	point time	sessionId	powerKw, socPercent
device	paired at	deviceId	tokenHash, installationId, revoked

A point with the same measurement, tags and timestamp replaces the earlier one, so the car's retries are idempotent: a cached chunk is re-sent with its original recordedAt. Days and the lifetime total are summed from the chunks when read. Numbers are always written as floats, because InfluxDB fixes a field's type on first write.

Development

nix develop          # from the repository root: Go, govulncheck, InfluxDB 2
cd server
go test ./...
govulncheck ./...

Container image

podman build -t git.stinnesbeck.com/nils/mg4-server:<version> .
podman push git.stinnesbeck.com/nils/mg4-server:<version>

The build runs go vet and the tests. The image is a static binary on distroless (about 11 MB), running as UID 65532 on port 8080.