Hi Lorenzo,
OK, let's continue in English. Maybe it's easier that the german people use a translation option.
As you have the project on github, maybe the best would be to do the specific discussions there (github discussions) ?
EDIT: OK, I just have realized that this on github is the HA plugin. What we are talking about here obviously will be a separate project, which then can also be acceessed from HA? But nevertheless...
I think this project is a great idea! Actually, I am also thinking about the same, but I have no experience yet with the communication of the Astra module, so I cannot contribute much at the moment. I also have no home assistant running at the moment.
May main use case is that I need access to the SOC, because I'm using evcc to control PV-guided charging. So the mqtt support is great.
My current plans were to renew the abo for one additional year and use this time to make something own. This project sounds to me to be the optimal one!
Some comments from me:
I think the "man in the middle" mode is good, because this allows full flexibility. Ideally, it should be only an option, so that the user can decide whether the data goes to Silence or not.
Gerold meanwhile uses his own server, I did like to use it with my SEAT Mo but the SEAT API is completely different from the Silence one (if not to say unknown), thus evcc also did not work.
To my information, Gerold uses openGTS (
viewtopic.php?p=292324#p292324), but this is (as far as I read up to now) a huge package and it is not trivial to run it for example on a raspberry pi (need 4 GB memory). As one of our reasons to do this are the costs, one should not forget: The silence service costs 29€/year. This is not that much if you consider that a raspberry pi, consuming (let's say) 3W for 24/7, already uses electric power for abour 8€/year. Every more powerful computer would come closer to the 29€. Therefore, for me it is important to run the server in an existing evironment, in my case the raspberry pi where evcc runs.
3 - (this is to be clarified) Still send status to the Silence/Seat servers so that they keep the SIM active.
We have the doubt that Silence/Seat could disable the SIM installed in the Astra module if they no longer see a scooter communicating with their servers.. do you have any information on this?
This is an interesting point. I am wondering what happens when the free abo ends in a few weeks. Will the sim still remain active? In other words, does Silence also listen on scooters where the app has not been activated? We will see...
I think there are people here (@Gerold?) who have replaced the SIM with their own. But nobody has reported yet (to my knowledge) whether the original one stays active.
Patrick