API to allow creating a geofence

[SteveDonie]

Big picture: I have Teslamate and NodeRed set up, I have customed the NodeRed script quite a bit to send me information through Telegram. When I park, the script uses OpenStreetMap to look up the address at my lat/long and put that in a message. If I park somewhere that is 'undefined' but I want to 'remember' that place, I'd like to just type "fence" into Telegram and have it start a mini-conversation:

Teslamate parked at undefined North Mopac Service Road, Austin Texas
me fence
Teslamate What is the name of the new geofence?
me Bob's Burgers
Teslamate OK, created geofence "Bob's Burgers"

Sound interesting?

[tobiasehlert]

Hi @SteveDonie,

Thanks for your suggestion!
I think spontaneously that this might not be something I'll add to the TeslaMatApi, since I prefer the application to stays a way of getting data from TeslaMate rather than feeding data into TeslaMate and it's database.

From a technical perspective that is doable to insert a new entry in the geofence table of TeslaMate with the various fields like long/lat, radius and pricing-methods. But I think that the use-case if fairly limited and more can go wrong than right.
Maybe it's better for you to make some postgresql-insert with some node-red library instead so that it fits your requirements.

Kind regards,
Tobias

[SteveDonie]

Thanks for the reply - I did end up using the postgresql node and just doing a straight insert. Meets my needs.