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Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own

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122 points kcon | 1 comments | 14 Apr 25 02:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source

Nissan's official mobile app for their LEAF electric car doesn't have a widget for quickly checking the car's battery charge status on your phone's home screen, so for a fun side project I decided to make my own using free tools like GitHub Actions, Appium, Tailscale, and Apple Shortcuts.
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MBCook ◴[14 Apr 25 03:07 UTC] No.43677716[source]▶
Ford will flat out lock your account so even the official app won’t work for you if they notice you using a 3rd party app.
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DaSHacka ◴[14 Apr 25 03:24 UTC] No.43677788[source]▶
What recourse (if any) do owners have if that happens?
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light_hue_1 ◴[14 Apr 25 03:31 UTC] No.43677825[source]▶
It's not that bad, unless you don't have a backup way of getting into your car handy. You create a new account and associate your car with it.

Many people have been bitten by this, it's a common thread on related forums. https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/ford-suspending-acco...

I don't understand Ford, VW, etc. They make these nice cars that are just unusable junk because of their software.

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1. MBCook ◴[16 Apr 25 22:36 UTC] No.43711101[source]▶
They are absolutely not unusable junk. I love mine.

But they built up a huge amount of momentum with how they’ve always done things. They didn’t care about software, we know about that from the terrible infotainment systems out there.

Learning that needs changing and the old method can’t be bent to work has been a very hard lesson.