rivian-python-api - A python API for Rivian

Sources

Based on information from https://github.com/kaedenbrinkman/rivian-api.

State of development

Polling

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.

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.

Actions

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:

1. They limit you to 2 phones per vehicle
2. Actions are cryptographically signed by the registered phones and validated
3. 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.
4. 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.

Missing & Unknown

1. There does not appear to be an API call that returns speed for the vehicle. With GPS location and polling and math you can figure it out with haversine etc. type approaches. Example in the CLI

Dependencies

Python 3 pip

Security

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.

API

The API does nothing in terms of storage of credentials etc.

CLI

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.

Setup

For API

None

For CLI

pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: For any actions with the CLI you'll need to login, see login information below.

CLI Commands

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.

Login

bin/rivian_cli --login

Login, will interactively prompt for MFA if needed. Expects RIVIAN_USERNAME and RIVIAN_PASSWORD in shell environment.

Vehicle Orders

bin/rivian_cli --vehicle_orders

Vehicle Orders hiding PII

bin/rivian_cli --vehicle_orders --privacy

Vehicle Orders with raw dumps

bin/rivian_cli --vehicle_orders --verbose

Vehicle State

bin/rivian_cli --state

Vehicle State Polling

bin/rivian_cli --poll

Trip planning

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

Other commands

bin/rivian_cli --help

CLI Notes

• 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)