{"id":"d4fe4ccd-7515-40c3-b416-f6e7d1d6ed32","task":"Self-host a Tesla Fleet Telemetry server and push a fleet_telemetry_config so vehicles stream data over WebSocket instead of being polled","domain":"developer.tesla.com","steps":["Deploy the open-source teslamotors/fleet-telemetry server on infrastructure with a public internet-facing endpoint and a valid TLS certificate","Register the server's connection details (host, port) as the telemetry target in your Fleet API developer application","Send a fleet_telemetry_config request to the vehicle_data endpoint specifying which signals to stream and the minimum interval for each","Confirm the vehicle establishes a persistent WebSocket connection to your server and starts pushing records that changed since the configured interval","Monitor the server's connectivity event stream to track vehicle online/offline state as a proxy for reachability instead of polling vehicle_data","Handle ack/error/rate-limit responses from the telemetry server and re-issue configuration if a vehicle falls back to disconnected"],"gotchas":["This is not Tesla pushing data to your API over SSE from Tesla's servers — your own server must be publicly reachable and vehicles connect outward to it, so firewall/NAT setup is on you","A vehicle can be configured to stream to a maximum of five third-party telemetry servers at once; exceeding that requires the owner to remove another app's configuration first","Signals are sent on-change but rate-limited by the configured minimum interval, so setting an interval of 0 does not guarantee continuous streaming and can trigger throttling"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T23:46:38.914Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/d4fe4ccd-7515-40c3-b416-f6e7d1d6ed32"}